1. Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

2. Acts 15
Issue: Is circumcision required? Nature of the conference Apostles (universal church) Elders (local church) Means of reaching a conclusion Statements Examples Necessary Inference

3. Welcome! www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net
Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM

4. Hymns - Be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another
In psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
Singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord
Ephesians 5:18b-19
Hymns
Invitation
Red Songbook -
Supplemental

5. Improving Ourselves for 2017
Change for the Better
Improving Ourselves for 2017

6. Change For The Better: An Example
Josiah’s restoration: 2 Chronicles 34: A commitment to turn to the Lord 1 Peter 1:12-16 “Gird up your loins” (KJV, NKJV)

7. Change For The Better: An Example
Josiah’s restoration: 2 Chronicles 34: A commitment to turn to the Lord 2. Purging idols Colossians 3:1-5

8. Change For The Better: An Example
Josiah’s restoration: 2 Chronicles 34: A commitment to turn to the Lord 2. Purging idols 3. Rebuild the Temple 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

9. Change For The Better: An Example
Josiah’s restoration: 2 Chronicles 34: A commitment to turn to the Lord 2. Purging idols 3. Rebuild the Temple 4. Turn to the Lord (again!) Romans 12:1-2

10. Change For The Better: How to Grow
How can we increase our spirituality? Spirituality grows by understanding John 6:63 Colossians 1:9 How can we grow our understanding?
Joh 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Col 1:9 ¶ For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

11. Learning Pyramid
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National training laboratories

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1 Timothy 4:13
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1 Timothy 4:13 Until I come, give attention to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation and teaching.
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Ephesians 3:4
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Ephesians 3:4 By referring to this, when you read you can understand my insight into the mystery of Christ,
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Acts 17:3
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Acts 17:3 explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead,
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Titus 2:7
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Titus 2:7 in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility,
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Acts 17:11
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Acts 17:11 Now these were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
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James 1:22
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James 1:22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
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Hebrews 5:12
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Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers…..
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20. 2017: A Year to Grow in Grace and Knowledge
By changing things for the better By growing in understanding
Joh 6:63 "It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.
Col 1:9 ¶ For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;