Goal 3 - Preaching and Teaching the entire Council of Scripture
Goal 4 - Discipleship
Goal 5 - Commitment to
Families
Goal 6 - Concern for One
Another
Goal 7 - Outreach
“Worship is the church’s
and the individual Christians’ highest priority”
John
MacArthur
“The end of the creation
is that the creation might Glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but
a rejoicing at that glory He has displayed? The happiness of the
creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified
and exalted”
Jonathan
Edwards
Ex 20:4-6; Deut 12:32; Jer 10:6-7;
Mark 12:28-31; Rom 12:1-8
Note: All following goals are
in order to accomplish our first and most important goal of correct
worship
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Discipline – “Invariably, discipline
and order are the universal characteristics of all the outstanding men
and women of God. Obviously it is something that is thoroughly
scriptural and absolutely essential.”
Martyn
Lloyd Jones
Spirit Controlled Character – “For
those who are to exercise any office in the church, it is not knowledge
and utterance only which are needed; but also, and above all, grace and
an unblameable lifestyle.”
R.C.
Chapman
1 Tim. 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9; 1 Cor. 9:29; 1 Cor. 3:10-13; 1 Thes.
2:7-8; Gal. 5:22-26
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Goal 3
- Preaching and Teaching
the entire counsel of Scripture
“God is no fonder of
intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking
of becoming a Christian, I warn you that you are embarking on something,
which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all. But
fortunately, it works the other way around. Anyone who is honestly
trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being
sharpened; one of the reasons why we need no special education to be
Christians is that Christianity is an education itself.”
C.S.
Lewis
1 Tim. 4:13-16; 2 Tim. 4:1-2; 2 Pet. 3:15-16; 2 Tim. 2:7; Mark 8:38;
1 Cor. 1:17-2:5
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“Effective teachers help
each believer to find their own way of benefiting the rest of the
church.”
R.C.
Sproul
“The church should be
discipling and training Christians for ministry. Church members, not
just staff, are supposed to be ministering. ….pastor-teachers are given
to equip the saints to do the work of ministry.”
John
MacArthur
Eph. 4:11-13; 2 Tim. 2:1-2
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“Strong families are the
church’s backbone. And strong families build strong individuals. We
will pay a high price if we don’t make the family a priority. That
means we must help our people develop solid marriages and sturdy
families by teaching husbands to love and lead their wives, wives to
submit to their husbands, children to obey their parents, and parents
not to exasperate their children but to nurture them in the Lord.”
John
MacArthur
Eph. 5:25-6:4
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“How great victory was
that which Jonathan must have gained over himself, when he rejoiced to
see David raised above him! He discerned the mind of God in David, and
had so learned to delight in God, that he did not see in David one who
was to outshine him, but another faithful man raised up for God and for
Israel.”
R.C.
Chapman
“The church is a family, the House
of God.”
R.C. Sproul
Rom. 12:10, 16; 14:13; 15:5,7,14; Gal. 5:13;
Eph.4:2,32; 5:21; Phil.2:3; Col. 3:9,13; 1 Thes. 5:11; James 5:16; 1
Pet. 1:22; 4:9,10; 5:5; Heb. 10:24-25
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“The lonely, the mournful,
the friendless, the tempted, the defected, the despised, the forsaken,
the outcast, Christ will wait on each one of them, whatever his case, as
though that one were His only charge. By this exact and special
oversight of each member of His body, how precious, how lovely, how
glorious, does Christ appear!”
R.C.
Chapman
“There are three possibilities with the great commission. You can go.
You can send. Or you can be disobedient. Ignoring the cause is not a
Christian option.”
John
Piper
Luke 12:33; 1John 3:17; Gal. 2:10; Acts 5:27-29;
20:35
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