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OR…WHY SHOULD CHURCH BE IMPORTANT TO ME?

According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 1 Peter 1:3 ESV

I am writing these things to you so that…you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth. 1 Timothy 3:14-15 ESV What’s The

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OR…WHY SHOULD CHURCH BE IMPORTANT TO ME?

BEING A CHRISTIAN IS MORE THAN BELIEVING . . . IT INCLUDES _______________!BELONGING

So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

Ephesians 2:19 ESVWhat’s The

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HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

1. A church family will help me _________________.FOCUS ON GOD

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. Matthew 22:37-38 ESV

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! Psalms 34:3 ESV What’s The

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HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

2. A church family will help me ______________________ so I’m not aloneFACE MY PROBLEMS

(Christ) died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:10-11 ESVWhat’s The

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a Spiritual Family

HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. Romans 12:5 ESV

Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 1 Peter 3:8 ESV

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a Spiritual Family

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3. A church family will help me ________________GROW IN FAITH

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity…

Hebrews 6:1 ESV

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a Spiritual Family

HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

4. A church family will help me ______________________ through helping othersDISCOVER MEANING

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:10 ESV

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a Spiritual Family

HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

There are varieties of service . . .you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians.12:5, 27.

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a Spiritual Family

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5. A church family will help me __________________ about God’s wayTELL MY FRIENDS

But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God. Acts 20:24 ESV

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a Spiritual Family

HOW WILL A CHURCH AND/OR SPIRITUAL FAMILY HELP ME?

For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? Romans 10:13-14 ESV

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HOW DO I GET THE MOST FROM A SPIRITUAL FAMILY?

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Acts 2:41-42 ESV

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And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, Acts 2:46 ESV

HOW DO I GET THE MOST FROM A SPIRITUAL FAMILY?

(They) were baptized(1) . . . and joined the other believers. . . they worshiped together regularly at the Temple (2) . . . and met in small groups in the homes (3) for communion .

Acts 2:41-42, 46

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