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Finding Your Place
Finding Your Place A Covenant
Community
A Covenant
Community
Culture’s erosion
of commitment.
A Covenant
Community
Culture’s erosion
of commitment.
From membership
to covenant
A Covenant
Community
A Covenant
Community
God is building a people
bonded by promise.
A Covenant
Community
God cuts covenants
A Covenant
Community
God is building a household
A Covenant
Community
God enables living as a family
A Covenant
Community
God enables living as a family
1) Teaching
A Covenant
Community
God enables living as a family
2) Fellowship
A Covenant
Community
God enables living as a family
3) Impact
A Covenant
Community
God is building a people
bonded by promise.
A Covenant
Community
As you commit to Christ
devote yourself to His Body.
A Covenant
Community
As you commit to Christ
devote yourself to His Body.
Body expressed as:
1) All believers
A Covenant
Community
As you commit to Christ
devote yourself to His Body.
Body expressed as:
1) All believers
2) Assembly of believers
A Covenant
Community
A Covenant
Community
Covenant communities:
1) Empower leaders
“Obey your leaders and submit to their authority...Obey them so that their work will be a joy, not a burden, for that would be of no advantage to you.”
A Covenant
Community
Covenant communities:
2) Invite instruction
“…I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage with great patience and careful instruction.”
A Covenant
Community
Covenant communities:
3) Enable edification
“And let us consider how we may spur one another on…Let us not give up meeting together …but let us encourage one another…”
A Covenant
Community
Covenant communities:
4) Allow accountability
“...brother sins against you, go and show him his fault…But if he will not listen, take one or two others along…If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church…”
A Covenant
Community
