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Exploring Church Membership
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Exploring Church Membership
Acts 247b And the Lord added to the church
daily those who were being saved. (NIV)

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Exploring (name of your church) Membership Class
Outline

• Our Salvation
• The Requirements of Membership
• Making Sure You Are a Christian
• The Symbols of Salvation
• Baptism
• Lords Supper
• Our Statements
• Our Purpose Statement. Why we exist.
• Our Faith Statement. What we believe.
• The Vision
• The Great Commandment
• Our Strategy
• Who are we seeking to reach ?
• The Great Commission
• Our Structure
• How our church is organized for growth
• How your church is financed
• Our Missions Connections
• Our Missions Giving

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Exploring (name of your church) Membership
The Requirements of Membership

• A personal profession of faith in Jesus Christ as
  Lord and Savior
• Baptism by immersion as a public symbol of ones
  faith
• Completion of the membership class
• A commitment to the purpose and people of (church
  name) - a covenant relationship

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Making Sure You Are a Christian

• Have you come to the place in your spiritual life
  that you know for certain that if you died today
  you would go to heaven?
• Suppose you were before God and He said to you,
  Why should I let you into my heaven? what would
  you say?

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The Symbols of Salvation

• Baptism
• Believers
• By Immersion
• Obedience
• Symbolic
• Death, burial, and resurrection
• Identification with Christ
• I am in Christ

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The Symbols of Salvation

• Lord Supper (Communion)
• For Believers
• In Remembrance
• Obedience
• Symbolic
• Death, burial, and resurrection
• Identification with Christ
• Christ is in Me

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Our Purpose Statement

• Our purpose is to
• Exalt the Savior
• Evangelize the lost
• Enlist the saved for church membership
• Edify the saints
• Engage in ministry in the community

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Our Faith Statement

• The Bible is Gods Holy Word. It is the basis
  for what we believe and what we do
• The Bible teaches us what to believe about
• God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), man,
  salvation, the church, baptism Lords Supper,
  the Lords Day, the kingdom of God, the Second
  Coming of Christ and the end of the World,
  evangelism and missions, Christian education,
  stewardship, cooperation, the Christian and the
  social order, peace and war, religious liberty,
  and how to live the abundant Christian life.

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The Vision In 2000
And the Lord added to their number daily those
who were being saved. Acts 247b, NIV
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The Great Commandment

• Matthew 2237, 39-40, NIV
• Love the Lord your God with all your heart and
  with all your soul and with all your mind.
• Love your neighbor as yourself.
• All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
  commandments.

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Who are we seeking to reach? Our Strategy
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The Great Commission

• Matthew 2819-20, NIV
• Therefore go and make disciples of all nations,
• baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
  the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
• and teaching them to obey everything I have
  commanded you.
• And surely I am with you always, to the very end
  of the age.

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Our StructureHow Our Church IsOrganized for
Growth
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How Your Church Is Financed

• Gods plan of financing a church...
• His people giving of their own free will as He
  prospers them
• The tithe is the Lords
• The church is the storehouse

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Our Missions Connections

• Baptist Association
• ___Churches
• Baptist State Convention of _________
• ___Churches
• Southern Baptist Convention
• 42,000 Churches

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Our Missions Giving

• 10 of all regular offerings to world missions
  through the Cooperative Program (state, home,
  foreign)
• 4 of all regular offerings to associational
  missions through _______ Baptist Association
• Special Mission Offerings
• Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for North
  American Missions
• Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International
  Missions
• State Missions Offering
• Local Missions (benevolence, other)

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What Is Expected of Members?

• To protect the unity of our church
• by acting in love toward other members
• Romans 1419 Let us therefore make every effort
  to do what leads to peace and to mutual
  edification.(NIV) 1 Peter 122 Now that you
  have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so
  that you have sincere love for your brothers,
  love one another deeply, from the heart. (NIV)
• by refusing to gossip
• Ephesians 429 Do not let any unwholesome talk
  come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful
  for building others up according to their needs,
  that it may benefit those who listen. (NIV)
• by following the spiritual leaders
• Hebrews 137 Remember your leaders, who spoke
  the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of
  their way of life and imitate their faith. (NIV)

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What Is Expected of Members?

• To share the responsibility of your church
• by praying for its growth
• 1 Thessalonians. 12 We give thanks to God
  always for you all, making mention of you in our
  prayers (KJV)
• by inviting the unchurched to attend
• Luke 1423 "Then the master said to the servant,
  'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel
  them to come in, that my house may be filled.
  (NKJV)
• by warmly welcoming those who visit
• Romans 157 So warmly welcome each other into
  the church, just as Christ has warmly welcomed
  you then God will be glorified. (LB)

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What Is Expected of Members?

• To serve the ministry of your church
• by discovering your spiritual gifts talents
• 1 Peter 410 Each one should use whatever gift
  he has received to serve others, faithfully
  administering God's grace in its various forms.
  (NIV)
• by being equipped to serve
• Ephesians 411-12 It was he who gave some to be
  apostles, some to be prophets, some to be
  evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers,
  to prepare God's people for works of service, so
  that the body of Christ may be built up (NIV)
• by developing a servants heart
• Philippians 24-7 Each of you should look not
  only to your own interests, but also to the
  interests of others. Your attitude should be the
  same as that of Christ Jesus Who, being in very
  nature God, did not consider equality with God
  something to be grasped, but made himself
  nothing, taking the very nature of a servant,
  being made in human likeness. (NIV)

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What Is Expected of Members?

• To support the testimony of your church
• by attending faithfully
• Hebrews 1025 Let us not give up meeting
  together, as some are in the habit of doing, but
  let us encourage one another-- and all the more
  as you see the Day approaching. (NIV)
• by living a godly life
• Philippians 127a Whatever happens, conduct
  yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of
  Christ. (NIV)
• by giving regularly
• 1 Corinthians 162 On the first day of every
  week, each one of you should set aside a sum of
  money in keeping with his income, saving it up,
  so that when I come no collections will have to
  be made. (NIV)
• Leviticus 2730 "'A tithe of everything from
  the land, whether grain from the soil or fruit
  from the trees, belongs to the LORD it is holy
  to the LORD. (NIV)

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Exploring Church Membership
There is room for you here!
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