Restoration: The Church and the Great Commission

Foundations Week 7 Restoration: The Church & The Great Commission

The Church The church is the community of all true believers for all time.

Ephesians 5:25 Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

Deuteronomy 4:10 Gather the people to me that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live upon the Earth.

Acts 7:38 He was with the church in the wilderness

2 Timothy 2:19 The Lord knows who are his.

Revelation 7:9-10 After this I looked and saw a multitude too large to count, from every nation and tribe and people and tongue, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!

1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth

1 Thessalonians 1:3 To the church of the Thessalonians

Philemon 1-2 To Philemon and Apphia and Archippus and to the church in your house.

Acts 20:29-30 Fierce wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Matthew 7:15-16 Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits.

Colossians 3:16 Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Ephesians 1:12 so that we who are appointed in Christ should live for the praise of His glory.

Mission statement We exist to glorify Godby working together to make disciples who change the world.

Acts 20:7 On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Paul talked with them, intending to depart the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Ephesians 5:19 address one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your hearts.

1 Corinthians 16:1-2 Now about the collection for the saints, you are to do as I directed the churches of Galatia: On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Mark 1:10 And when he came up out of the water .

John 3:23 John was also baptizing in Aenon near Salim, because there was much water there.

Romans 6:3-4 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

Acts 2:41 Those who received his word were baptized.

Acts 8:12 When they believed Phillip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized both men and women.

Matthew 26:26-29 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, Take, eat; this is my body. And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, Drink of it, all of you; for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. I tell you I shall not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father s kingdom.

1 Corinthians 11:25 This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.

1 Corinthians 11:26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord s death until he comes.

John 6:53-57 Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me.

1 Corinthians 10:17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.

1 Corinthians 11:29-30 For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

1 Corinthians 11:27-29 Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Let a man examine himself, and so eat of the bread and drink of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself.

1 Corinthians 12:26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

Galatians 6:2 Bear one another s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Hebrews 10:24-25 Let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

1 John 3:17 If anyone has the world s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God s love abide in him?

Acts 4:34 There was not a needy person among them.

Mission statement We exist to glorify God by working togetherto make disciples who change the world.

Colossians 1:28 Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Ephesians 4:12-13 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

Ephesians 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Matthew 28:18-20 And Jesus came and said to them, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.

Romans 6:19 We exist to glorify God by working together to make disciples who change the world.

1 Timothy 5:1-2 Do not rebuke an older man but exhort him as you would a father; treat younger men like brothers, older women like mothers, younger women like sisters, in all purity.

Matthew 18:15-16 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses

Matthew 18:17 If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

2 Corinthians 2:7-8 You should rather turn to forgive and comfort him or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow I beg you to reaffirm your love for him.

Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord disciplines those whom he loves.

Hebrews 12:8 If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

1 Corinthians 5:12-13 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside.

Matthew 28:18 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.

Luke 6:35-36 Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the selfish. Be merciful, even as your father is merciful.