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Breaking New Ground
Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12
Biblical BlueprintsA Vision for the Church
Passion
Prayer
Planning
Communication
Unity
Breaking New Ground
Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Psalm 118:19-24
19 Open to me the gates
of righteousness,that I
may enter through
themand give thanks to
the Lord.20 This is the
gate of the Lord;the
righteous shall enter
through it.21 I thank you
that you have answered
me and have become my
salvation.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Psalm 118:19-24
22 The stone that the
builders rejectedhas
become the
cornerstone.23 This is the
Lord’s doing;it is
marvelous in our eyes.24
This is the day that the
Lord has made;let us
rejoice and be glad in it.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Matthew 16:15-19
15 He said to them, “But
who do you say that I
am?” 16 Simon Peter
replied, “You are the
Christ, the Son of the living
God.” 17 And Jesus
answered him, “Blessed
are you, Simon Bar-Jonah!
For flesh and blood has not
revealed this to you, but
my Father who is in
heaven.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Matthew16:15-19
18 And I tell you, you are
Peter, and on this rock I
will build my church, and
the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. 19 I will
give you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven, and
whatever you bind on
earth shall be bound in
heaven, and whatever you
loose on earth shall be
loosed in heaven.”
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Acts 4:11-13
11 This Jesus is the stone
that was rejected by you,
the builders, which has
become the cornerstone.
12 And there is salvation
in no one else, for there is
no other name under
heaven given among men
by which we must be
saved.”
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
Acts 4:11-13
13 Now when they saw the
boldness of Peter and
John, and perceived that
they were uneducated,
common men, they were
astonished. And they
recognized that they had
been with Jesus.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
1Peter 2:4-9
4 As you come to him, a living
stone rejected by men but in
the sight of God chosen and
precious, 5 you yourselves
like living stones are being
built up as a spiritual house,
to be a holy priesthood, to
offer spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through
Jesus Christ.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
1Peter 2:4-9
6 For it stands in
Scripture:“Behold, I am laying
in Zion a stone,a cornerstone
chosen and precious,and
whoever believes in him will
not be put to shame.”7 So the
honor is for you who believe,
but for those who do not
believe,“The stone that the
builders rejectedhas become
the cornerstone,”
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
1Peter 2:4-9
8 and“A stone of
stumbling,and a rock of
offense.”They stumble
because they disobey the
word, as they were destined
to do.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Cornerstone
1Peter 2:4-9
9 But you are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood, a holy
nation, a people for his own
possession, that you may
proclaim the excellencies of
him who called you out of
darkness into his marvelous
light.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Ephesians 1:22-23
22 And he put all things
under his feet and gave
him as head over all things
to the church, 23 which is
his body, the fullness of
him who fills all in all.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Ephesians 4:1515 Rather, speaking the
truth in love, we are to
grow up in every way into
him who is the head, into
Christ
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Ephesians 5:2323 For the husband is the
head of the wife even as
Christ is the head of the
church, his body, and is
himself its Savior.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Colossians 1:18
18 And he is the head of
the body, the church. He is
the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead,
that in everything he
might be preeminent.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Matthew 23:8-10
8 But you are not to be
called rabbi, for you have
one teacher, and you are
all brothers. 9 And call no
man your father on earth,
for you have one Father,
who is in heaven.
10 Neither be called
instructors, for you have
one instructor, the Christ.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 13:13 13 You call me Teacher
and Lord, and you are
right, for so I am.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
2Corinthians 4:55 For what we proclaim is
not ourselves, but Jesus
Christ as Lord, with
ourselves as your servants
for Jesus’ sake.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 14:1515 “If you love me, you will
keep my commandments.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 14:21
21 Whoever has my
commandments and keeps
them, he it is who loves
me. And he who loves me
will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him and
manifest myself to him.”
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 14:23
23 Jesus answered him, “If
anyone loves me, he will
keep my word, and my
Father will love him, and
we will come to him and
make our home with him.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Ephesians 5:2424 Now as the church
submits to Christ, so also
wives should submit in
everything to their
husbands.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
1John 3:24
24 Whoever keeps his
commandments abides in
God, and God in him. And
by this we know that he
abides in us, by the Spirit
whom he has given us.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 10:11, 14-15
11 I am the good
shepherd. The good
shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep.14 I am the
good shepherd. I know my
own and my own know
me, 15 just as the Father
knows me and I know the
Father; and I lay down my
life for the sheep.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
1John 3:16a 16 By this we know love,
that he laid down his life
for us
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Ephesians 5:29-30
29 For no one ever hated
his own flesh, but
nourishes and cherishes it,
just as Christ does the
church, 30 because we are
members of his body.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 17:20-26
20 “I do not ask for these
only, but also for those who
will believe in me through
their word, 21 that they
may all be one, just as you,
Father, are in me, and I in
you, that they also may be
in us, so that the world may
believe that you have sent
me. 22 The glory that you
have given me I have given
to them, that they may be
one even as we are one,
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 17:20-26
23 I in them and you in me,
that they may become
perfectly one, so that the
world may know that you
sent me and loved them
even as you loved me.
24 Father, I desire that they
also, whom you have given
me, may be with me where I
am, to see my glory that
you have given me because
you loved me before the
foundation of the world.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
John 17:20-26
25 O righteous Father,
even though the world does
not know you, I know you,
and these know that you
have sent me. 26 I made
known to them your name,
and I will continue to make
it known, that the love with
which you have loved me
may be in them, and I in
them.”
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Revelation 2:23b
23b And all the churches
will know that I am he who
searches mind and heart,
and I will give to each of
you according to your
works.
Laying The FoundationA Vision for Structure and Stability
Jesus is
the Head
Jude 24-25
24 Now to him who is able
to keep you from
stumbling and to present
you blameless before the
presence of his glory with
great joy, 25 to the only
God, our Savior, through
Jesus Christ our Lord, be
glory, majesty, dominion,
and authority, before all
time and now and forever.
Amen.
Breaking New Ground
Laying The Foundation: A Vision for Structure And StabilityEphesians 2:19-22; 4:11-12