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Title: MMCC CALL TO COMMITMENT review


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MMCC CALL TO COMMITMENT(review)
  • But thanks be to God that though you were slaves
    of sin, you became obedient from the heart to
    that form of teaching to which you were committed
    Rom 6.17 NASB
  • WHAT
  • A church-wide call to the commitment
  • A series of devotionals to bring people back to
    God
  • A decision to re-count the cost with everyone in
    the church
  • A chance to strengthen disciples and deal with
    sin
  • A way to solidify our membership and know our
    boundaries

2
Call to Commitment
  • WHY
  • This is part of our on-going repentance as church
  • This is a result of going back to our
    Mission-Vision statements
  • This has been on the hearts of the leadership and
    church members for some time
  • This is needed in order to know who wish to
    remain as disciples

3
Call to Commitment - Review
  • TOPICS FOR COMMITMENT DEVOS (6)
  • Our Beliefs
  • Our Structure
  • Our Strategy
  • Our Response
  • Discipling
  • Giving
  • Commitment
  • Membership Affirmation

4
Recommitment Calls in the Old Testament
  • By Rolan D. Monje

5
The OT pattern
  • Gods standard never changes.
  • Gods people forget the standard, and so God
    calls people to recommit themselves to the
    standard.
  • Today, we will look at some of those calls from
    the Old Testament narratives.

6
The Call through Joshua
  • Josh 21.1, 14-17
  • Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel
    at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders,
    judges and officials of Israel, and they
    presented themselves before God.

7
The Call through Joshua
  • Josh 21.1, 14-17
  • "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all
    faithfulness. Throw away the gods your
    forefathers worshiped beyond the River and in
    Egypt, and serve the LORD. But if serving the
    LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for
    yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether
    the gods your forefathers served beyond the
    River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
    you are living. But as for me and my household,
    we will serve the LORD."
  • Then the people answered, "Far be it from us to
    forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

8
The Call through Samuel
  • 1 Sam 7.2-4
  • It was a long time, twenty years in all, that
    the ark remained at Kiriath Jearim, and all the
    people of Israel mourned and sought after the
    LORD.

9
The Call through Samuel
  • 1 Sam 7.2-4 (cont)
  • And Samuel said to the whole house of Israel,
    "If you are returning to the LORD with all your
    hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods
    and the Ashtoreths and commit yourselves to the
    LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you
    out of the hand of the Philistines." So the
    Israelites put away their Baals and Ashtoreths,
    and served the LORD only.

10
The Call through Elijah
  • 1 Ki 18.20-24
  • So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and
    assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. Elijah
    went before the people and said, "How long will
    you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is
    God, follow him but if Baal is God, follow him."
  • But the people said nothing.

11
The Call through Elijah
  • 1 Ki 18.20-24
  • So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and
    assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel.

12
The Call through Elijah
  • 1 Ki 18.22-24
  • Then Elijah said to them, "I am the only one of
    the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four
    hundred and fifty prophets. Get two bulls for us.
    Let them choose one for themselves, and let them
    cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not
    set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and
    put it on the wood but not set fire to it. Then
    you call on the name of your god, and I will call
    on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by
    fire--he is God."
  • Then all the people said, "What you say is
    good."

13
The Call through Asa
  • 2 Chron 15.8-15
  • When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of
    Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage.
    He removed the detestable idols from the whole
    land of Judah and Benjamin and from the towns he
    had captured in the hills of Ephraim. He repaired
    the altar of the LORD that was in front of the
    portico of the LORD's temple.

14
The Call through Asa
  • Then Asa assembled all Judah and Benjamin
  • They assembled at Jerusalem
  • they sacrificed to the LORD seven hundred head
    of cattle and seven thousand sheep and goats from
    the plunder they had brought back. They entered
    into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of
    their fathers, with all their heart and soul. All
    who would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel,
    were to be put to death, whether small or great,
    man or woman. They took an oath to the LORD with
    loud acclamation, with shouting and with trumpets
    and horns. All Judah rejoiced about the oath
    because they had sworn it wholeheartedly. They
    sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So
    the LORD gave them rest on every side.

15
The Call through Josiah
  • 2 Ki 22.8-23
  • Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the
    secretary, "I have found the Book of the Law in
    the temple of the LORD." He gave it to Shaphan,
    who read it. Then Shaphan read from it in the
    presence of the king.
  • When the king heard the words of the Book of the
    Law, he tore his robes Great is the LORD's anger
    that burns against us because our fathers have
    not obeyed the words of this book they have not
    acted in accordance with all that is written
    there concerning us."

16
  • 2 Ki 23.1
  • Then the king called together all the elders of
    Judah and Jerusalem. He went up to the temple of
    the LORD with all the people from the least to
    the greatest. He read in their hearing all the
    words of the Book of the Covenant, which had been
    found in the temple of the LORD. The king stood
    by the pillar and renewed the covenant in the
    presence of the LORD--to follow the LORD and keep
    his commands, regulations and decrees with all
    his heart and all his soul, thus confirming the
    words of the covenant written in this book. Then
    all the people pledged themselves to the
    covenant.

17
Conclusions
  • Recommitment calls are calls to return to the
    Lord, because people have turned or drifted away.
  • Each person has choice, to remain in his
    situation (bad) or to return to God change the
    situation (good)
  • Turning back to God is only possible because God
    is good.
  • God uses imperfect but spiritual men to effect
    his call for recommitment.

18
Recommitment Calls in the Old Testament
  • By Rolan D. Monje

19
D-group time
  • Expect work towards quality discussion
  • Q1 For those who have counted the cost What
    have you changed mula nung pag-count the cost mo?
  • Q2 Sa Christian life mo, magbigay ng isang taong
    ginamit ng Dios para ikaw ay mag-repent o
    recommit.
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