Exploring the Quadrennial Theme

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Exploringthe Quadrennial Theme

• Bishop Darryl B. Starnes, Sr., Presenter

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Exploringthe Quadrennial Theme

• Fortifying Our Faith
• While Focusing on Our Future
• Through
• Worship
• Leadership
• Discipleship
• Stewardship

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Fortifying Our Faith

• Faith is our trusting response
  to what God has promised or commanded.
• Dynamic Faith
• Head Faith
• Temporal Faith
• Saving Faith

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Fortifying Our Faith

• How then is faith fortified?
• Faithful attendance to the appointed means of
  grace
• The Ministry of the Word
• The Public and Private Worship of God

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Fortifying Our Faith
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Fortifying Our Faith
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Focusing on Our Future

• Our Storied Past
• From 1 Church in 1796
• To thousands of Church on 5 Continents
• The Freedom Church
• Frederick Douglas
• Harriet Tubman
• Sojourner Truth

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Focusing on Our Future

• Our Promising Future

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Worship

• Authentic Worship
• Right Object (God)
• Right Objective (Pleasing Him)
• Right Relationship with God

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Worship

• Inspiring Worship-
• In proper balance
• In Spirit
• In Truth

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Leadership

• Transformative Leadership
• Leaders Are Transformed
• Congregational Transformation
• Community Transformation

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Leadership

• Empowering Leadership
• Empowers others to lead and serve
• Equips the saints for their ministry
• Helps people discover, develop, and use their
  spiritual gifts
• Uses nominating power to help people find their
  place in meaningful ministry

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discipleship

• Disciple-Making
• Evangelism sharing the gospel
• Baptism initiating and assimilating new converts
  into a loving church
• Teaching training converts to obey the commands
  of Christ

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discipleship

• Small-Group Discipleship
• Henderson the class meeting was the most
  influential instructional unit in Methodism
• Beecher The greatest thing John Wesley ever gave
  to the world is the Methodist class-meeting.
• Moody The Methodist class-meetings are the best
  institutions for training converts the world ever
  saw.

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Stewardship

• Faithful Stewardship
• The stewardship of our time, talents, treasures,
  and temple
• The stewardship of Gods mysteries, our
  ministries, and our management of His Church
• The stewardship of the care of souls

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Stewardship

• Tithing
• Gods plan
• For financing His Church
• For the support of its ministries
• For meeting the needs of the community
• For the evangelization of the world

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Conclusion

• Isnt it time?

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Conclusion

• O Zion Haste!