Tag: NEXT STEPS

NEXT STEPS: Learn To Share The Good News

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Jesus calls all people to follow Him by joining His relentless pursuit of the world, who will spend eternity in Hell unless they repent of the their sin (criminal activities). He says, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” This means all Christians must act. Change your schedule! Clear your calendar! Gather for “church” every week! Volunteer to take on responsibility! “Seek first the kingdom of God.” Make your work building up God’s kingdom! How do we do…

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NEXT STEPS: The Forgotten Role of Female Leadership in the Church

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The more you study the Old Testament the more you see how over the years Israel forgot God’s word, His ways, and His Law. Over and over again God had to send prophets and leaders to call them back to His ways. After 2000 years the American church has the same issues of forgetting God’s ways and replacing them with the current culture’s practices. I find this a real issue today. Part of the churches break past the teaching of scripture and follow the feminist doctrines of American society and…

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NEXT STEPS: How To Commit To Church Membership

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Now you are no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you are members of God’s very own family … and you belong in God’s household with every other Christian.” Ephesians 2:19 LB Many American Christians are “floating believers,” uncommitted people claiming to be Christians but not willing to cement themselves to a local family of Christians, and roll up their sleeves and obey God. Instead they hop from one local church to another without identity, accountability, or commitment. They have not learned that Christianity is not just…

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NEXT STEPS: How To Practice The Power of Prayer

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Narrow road followers of Jesus practice the power of prayer: Our local church is called to be a House of Prayer, and our duty is to cry to God for help for one another, and the salvation of our neighbors and friends. “And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.” Acts 2:42-43 NKJV. “Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that…

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NEXT STEPS: How To Practice The Power of Fellowship Part 3

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God’s supernatural power of grace in every Christian is why fellowship is powerful. Spiritual gifts turn followers of Jesus into mighty servants of God that help other believers. Through fellowship God expresses His love through each believer of the local church. 1 Corinthians 12:1, 4-6 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the…

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