Danger: four times in NT Dangerous: one time

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Danger four times in NTDangerous one time

• Take heed twenty-one times (NKJV). 1
  Co.1012
• Beware occurs twenty times (NKJV). Ph.32
• Modernism Inherited membershipCompromise
  Indifference

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I Prejudice

• Dont be so narrow
• Jn.146
• You believe youre only ones going to heaven
  you are bigoted Ac.2822

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II Lack Of Qualified Elders

• Lords plan
• Ac.1423 2028, overseers
• Elders (pl.), flock (sg.)
• Tit.15
• Congregation not likely to rise above level
  of leadership
• Hb.1317
• Responsible for welfare of flock

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A Church May Be

• Scripturally unorganized (Ac.1423)
• Scripturally organized (Ac.1423)
• Unscripturally unorganized (Tit.15)
• Unscripturally organized (Tit.15-9)

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The only remedy work! 1 Tim.31

• Start while young
• It does not happen by accident
• Pro athlete
• Political office
• Elder
• Elders work far surpasses other things

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Must develop skills and relationships

• 1. Trained children, 1 Tim.34-5
• 2. Qualified wife, 1 Tim.311
• God, siblings, self, all things
• 3. Able to deal w. people, Tit.15-9
• 4. Able to tend sheep, Tit.19a
• 5. Able to answer error, Tit.19b
• 2 Tim.42

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III Half-Converted Members

• Conversion change
• Many worship for years, but never change
• Mt.183
• Many attend for years, but never grow

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Col.31-3

• 1, what to seek
• 2, how to think
• 3, why
• Pagan idea dead man is hidden in earth (dead
  and done with)
• Christians are hidden, but in Christ
• Dead no longer under the influence

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IV Hireling Preachers

• 1 Tim.65 (6)
• 2 Tim.43-4
• Jn.1011-13

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V Lack Of Zeal And Enthusiasm

• Jn.217
• Ro.101-3
• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light
  
• 2 Co.91-2, contagious
• Tit.214
• Rv.319