Creating A Culture Of Discipling (Mark Dever)

How to create a culture of discipling –  Mark Dever, #9MarksSE, September 30, 2016 – Book Discipling: How To Help Others Follow Jesus  1.    Make the Word central. Formal (preaching, teaching, ministry, etc.), and Informally (conversations in/beyond church, accountability, etc.). 2.    Make the gospel clear. Preaching, membership entries, conversations, etc. 3.    Align and do not separate…

Kingdom is for Legacy (2Samuel 6-10)

PLAY AUDIO: Communion –        How do we know we belong to God? o   Our performance? Contract basis o   God’s promise? Covenant basis 2Samuel 7:18-24 18  Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?…

Kingdom is for Unity (2Samuel 1-5)

PLAY AUDIO: MOTIVATE Many times at weddings or funerals there are slideshows of people’s lives. Picture collages capture the memories for a person in their home, parents, childhood rearing, siblings love & rivalry, heartaches of what has been lost, and joys of all that was shared and celebrated. Viewing the dozens and hundreds pictures tells…

Fate on Earth, Fruit in Heaven (Luke 13:1-9)

PLAY AUDIO: MOTIVATE ◊      Timeline of 9/11/2001[1] and a moment of silence with prayer. 7:59am Flight 11 carrying 81 passengers and 11 crew members departs from Logan Airport in Boston with destination for LAX. In minutes the flight would be hijacked and would make a 100-degree turn to the south heading toward NY City. 8:14am…