I Cant Stand Church Folk

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Relationships 101

• I Cant Stand Church Folk
• Part IV

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Relationships 101

• Pentecost Season
• And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
  they were all with one accord in one place."
  (Acts 21)

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Relationships 101

• Guiding Principle of Church Relationships 1
• The Church was instituted through the fellowship
  of believers.

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Relationships 101

• Guiding Principle of Church Relationships 2
• Outside of the Church there is no salvation.
• Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus

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Relationships 101

• Guiding Principle of Church Relationships 3
• IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.

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Relationships 101

• Why are you tripping?
• Offense
• Proskomma
• Proskope
• Aproskopo
• Skandalon

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Relationships 101

• Guiding Principle of Church Relationships 4
• If the Church is to grow, the people must grow.

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Relationships 101

• Then they that gladly received his word were
  baptized and the same day there were added unto
  them about three thousand souls.
• Acts 241

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Relationships 101

• Why are we afraid to change?
• Most strained church relationships are the
  product of unchanged people.
• If I change
• What does it say about who Ive been?
• I have to start over!
• Im not being real.

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Relationships 101

• The Instruments of Change
• Community (Proverbs 276,17)
• What shall we say? (2 Tim. 224-26 Eph. 411-29)
• How shall we hear? (John 830-45)

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Relationships 101

• How to receive feedback
• Whos saying it to me?
• Why are they saying it?
• What if its true?