TO KNOW CHRIST ANDTO MAKE HIM KNOW

THREE QUESTIONS

What do they mean?Why do we do these things?

How do we do them?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO KNOW

CHRIST?

TO KNOW CHRIST IS:

To learn information about Christ.

He is Holy, Eternal, Trinity, Faithful, Good, Just, Merciful, Loving

TO KNOW CHRIST IS:

To learn Jesus’ teachings Love for enemies Forgiveness Prayer

TO KNOW CHRIST AS To know Him as Savior

ROMANS 5: 8

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

TO KNOW CHRIST AS

MY LORD

1 JOHN 2:3,4

“we know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. The man who says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.”

1 PETER 2:21

“Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.”

PHILIPPIANS 2:3-4“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

PHILIPPIANS 2:5-6Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant.”

WHY DO WE SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST?

PHILIPPIANS 3:7, 8

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things.

PHILIPPIANS 3:8, 9

I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

PHILIPPIANS 3:10, 11

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

PHILIPPIANS 3:7

But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ.

PHILIPPIANS 3:8

“What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ”

PHILIPPIANS 3:9

“that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith”

PHILIPPIANS 3:10, 11

I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

HOW DO WE SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST?

WE SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST THROUGH:

Teaching / Study Fellowship with Believers Prayer Mentoring / Discipleship Worship

WE SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST THROUGH:

Sunday Morning Worship Services

WE SEEK TO KNOW CHRIST THROUGH:

Sunday Morning Worship Services

Sunday School Age Group Ministries Men’s and Women’s Ministries Life Groups Many More

TO KNOW CHRIST ANDTO MAKE HIM KNOW

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MAKE HIM

KNOWN?

We want people outside our church to come to know Him.

MATTHEW 4:19

“Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will make you fishers of men.”

HOW DO WE SEEK TO MAKE HIM

KNOWN?

MATTHEW 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house.

MATTHEW 5:14-16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise you Father in heaven.”

HOW DO WE MAKE HIM KNOWN?

"Preach the gospel at all times if necessary, use

words."

WHY DO WE SEEK TO MAKE HIM

KNOWN?