Life Together: Counsel One Another (Romans 15:14)

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The message was given on June 9, 2013 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, go to www.NewCityChurch.ca. Lie

Transcript of Life Together: Counsel One Another (Romans 15:14)

Today’s Scripture: Romans 15:14

Pages 949 in our guest Bibles.

church

“I will build my church.”

~ Jesus of Nazareth

assembly / congregationof Christians

=church

LOVE one anotherSERVE one another

ENCOURAGE one anotherPRAY for one another

WELCOME one anotherSHOW HOSPITALITY FORGIVE one another

“COUNSELONE ANOTHER”

Romans 15:14

I myself am satisfied about you, mybrothers, that you yourselves arefull of goodness, filled with all know-

another.ledge and able to instruct one

Romans 15:14

1Display Christ-likeCharacter

I myself am satisfied about you, mybrothers, that you yourselves are fullof goodness, filled with all know-

another.ledge and able to instruct one

Romans 15:14

No one is righteous, no not one...; no one does good, not even

one.... for all have sinned and fall short of

the glory of God. The Apostle Paul Romans 3:10ff

Blessed are those whose lawless deeds

are forgiven, and whose sin is covered;

blessed is the man whom the Lord does

not count his sin.

The Apostle Paul Romans 4:7-8

“...the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness, self-control....”

The Apostle Paul ~ Galatians 5:22-23

2EmployScriptural

Knowledge

I myself am satisfied about you, mybrothers, that you yourselves are fullof goodness, filled with all know-

another.ledge and able to instruct one

Romans 15:14

“Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one

another in all wisdom.”

The Apostle Paul ~ Colossians 3:16

“Because I am a Christian, therefore,

every day in which I do not penetrate more

deeply into the knowledge of God’s

Word in the Holy Scripture is a lost day for

me. I can only move forward with certainty

upon the firm ground of the Word of God.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

3GiveCompetent

Counsel

I myself am satisfied about you, mybrothers, that you yourselves are fullof goodness, filled with all know-

another.ledge and able to instruct one

Romans 15:14

4DeepenChristian

Community

I myself am satisfied about you, mybrothers, that you yourselves arefull of goodness, filled with all know-

another.ledge and able to instruct one

Romans 15:14

We value embodying authentic community towards deepening our lives together.

New City Church Value #5:

Three Opportunities

Community groups1

Community groups1

2 Triads

Three Opportunities

Community groups1

2

3

Triads

One-to-one meetings

Three Opportunities

Your display of maturing Christ-like character,

your growing employment of Scriptural knowledge,

and your deepening Christian community

enable you all to counsel one another.

So, how are we doing? ?

LOVE one anotherSERVE one another

ENCOURAGE one anotherPRAY for one another

WELCOME one anotherSHOW HOSPITALITY to one another

FORGIVE one anotherCOUNSEL one another

One another-ing is an essential (non-optional)

component of NT Christianity.

Our default mode should be...

“we” instead of “me.”