A Growing Church is a Growing Up Church | Ephesians 4:11–16
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Walk Worthily – A Growing Church is A Growing Up Church
“Owner’s Manual for the Church” – Bryan Chappell
“Spiritual gift.” It is a God-given ability or skill that enables a believer to perform a specific function in the body of Christ with effectiveness and ease.
- Leaders are to Equip the Saints
- The Saints are to Do the Work of the Ministry
Equipping
Serving
Building Up
How Should a Church Grow?
Attacks spiritual infantilism
Selfish Individualism is a mark of Immaturity.
1. Maturing Christlikeness
Rooted in the Scripture
Growing in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
Demonstrating Spiritual Maturity
Making Much of Jesus
Schaeffer – “There are no little people in the kingdom of God and there are no little jobs”
2. Doctrinal Stability
3. "Truthing” in Love
Loving People enough to tell the Truth
Loving the Truth enough to tell it
4. Healthy Service
Life Together
Walk Worthily – A Growing Church is A Growing Up Church
Ephesians 4:11-16
“Owner’s Manual for the Church” – Bryan Chappell
“Spiritual gift.” It is a God-given ability or skill that enables a believer to perform a specific function in the body of Christ with effectiveness and ease.
Leaders are to Equip the Saints
The Saints are to Do the Work of the Ministry
Equipping
Serving
Building Up
How Should a Church Grow?
Attacks spiritual infantilism
Selfish Individualism is a mark of Immaturity.
1. Maturing Christlikeness
Rooted in the Scripture
Growing in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ
Demonstrating Spiritual Maturity
Making Much of Jesus
Schaeffer – “There are no little people in the kingdom of God and there are no little jobs”
2. Doctrinal Stability
3. “Truthing” in Love
Loving People enough to tell the Truth
Loving the Truth enough to tell it
4. Healthy Service