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Stirring Up Our Local Church

Stirring Up Our Local Church. Beginning with Love Rev. 2:4-5 Love for Christ and His Word 1 Jn. 4:10 Love for our brethren Rom. 12:3-5; 1 Cor. 12:25; Tit. 3:1-3; Jas. 5:9 Rom. 12:3; H eb. 10:24-25; Col. 3:12-15; Rom. 12:10-18. Stirring Up Our Local Church. Keep Our Focus on Christ

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Stirring Up Our Local Church

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  1. Stirring Up Our Local Church Beginning with Love • Rev. 2:4-5 • Love for Christ and His Word • 1 Jn. 4:10 • Love for our brethren • Rom. 12:3-5; 1 Cor. 12:25; Tit. 3:1-3; Jas. 5:9 • Rom. 12:3; Heb. 10:24-25; Col. 3:12-15; Rom. 12:10-18

  2. Stirring Up Our Local Church Keep Our Focus on Christ • “I Know” • Admonitions to the “lukewarm church” • Rev. 3:20 • Rev. 3:18-19 “[Jesus] is knocking, and the church must welcome Him. When the church devotes itself to following Him, He will not lead them in a lukewarm path.” (Lifelong Zeal, p. 89)

  3. Stirring Up Our Local Church • Begin with love • For Christ • For His Word • For One Another • Maintain our focus on Christ • “I know” • “Let Me in”

  4. Stirring Up Our Local Church Feed the Fires Already Burning • Acts 18:24-28 • Heb. 10:24-25 • Don’t lose focus • 1 Cor. 14:3, 5, 12 • WHAT do we do with our zeal? • What is our INTENT with our zeal?

  5. Stirring Up Our Local Church Emulate First Century Churches • Philippi (Phil. 4:15-16) • Antioch (Acts 13:1-2; 14:26) • Berea (Acts 17:11) • Corinth (2 Cor. 9:1-2; 7:9-11) • Philadelphia (Rev. 3:8, 10)

  6. Stirring Up Our Local Church Bring Evangelism to Life • Rom. 1:16 • How can we be reassured/reassure one another?

  7. Stirring Up Our Local Church • Begin with love - For Christ, for His Word, For One Another • Maintain our focus on Christ • Feeding the fires already burning • Emulating 1st Century churches • Bringing evangelism to life

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