I dream of a Church
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“I have a Dream...”
Martin Luther King
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“I have a dream of a church”
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Acts 11:19-3013:1-3
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What church do you dream of ?
What sort of church do you want to belong to?
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This presentation was inspired by an original idea of Barney Coombs from Salt and Light Ministries
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1. Where Christ is central
Php 1:21, 3:7-11, Matt 16:16, Col 1:18
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2. Where people don’t go to church but live in the revelation that they are the church, wherever they live and work
1 Cor 12:27
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3. Where signs and wonders are done in the marketplace rather than in the church
Acts 5:15, 19:11-12
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4. Which is strong in the Lord and spiritual warfare
Jn 15:5, Php 4:13, Eph 6:10-12
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5. Which is washed clean from religious bondage and spiritual heresy
Matt 23:3-7, 15, 23-25
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6. Where salvation is free but to follow Jesus costs everything
Lk 14:26, Matt 19:23, Lk 9:23
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“The old cross is a symbol of death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of a human being. In Roman times, the man who took up his cross and started down the read was not coming back. He was not going out to have his life re-directed. He was going out to have it ended.”
A.W. Tozer
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7. Which is vibrant and extravagant in praise and worship
Ps 100:1-5, Col. 3:17
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8. Where each part is working properly with ligaments of sacrificial love
1 Cor 12:12-31, Gal 6:2, Rom 15:1, 2
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9. Where backbiting and gossip are regarded as wicked crimes
Matt 12:36, Luke 12:3, James 3:6
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10. Where leadership is vulnerable to one another
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11. Where the leadership is not monopolised by the pastor and teacher, but we understand the biblical grounds of cutting edge revelation
Eph 2:20
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12. Which is strongly theological and where the saints are taught the full counsel of God
Are you Pentecostal, Baptist, charismatic - or a disciple of Jesus Christ?
Matt 22:29, 2 Tim 3:5, Jn 8:31-32
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13. Where the eldership is male but the ministry is male and female
Gal 3:28, Joel 2:29 - Acts 2
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14. Which is neither afraid nor ashamed to confront society with God’s viewpoint about its own ungodliness
Matthew 5:13-16
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15. Where the leaders are more dangerous than conservative
Taking RISKS
Acts 10, Acts 13
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15. Where the leaders are more dangerous than conservative
Taking RISKS
Acts 10, Acts 13
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16. Which has the nation and the nations at its heart
Matt 24:14, 28:19, Psalm 2:8
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17. Which is letting its light shine in such a way that kings will come to its brightness
Isaiah 60:1-3
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