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Monthly Mens Breakfast Thursday May 24th 6:30 am Exit 14

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Wild Game Dinner


Fathers Day Weekend Outing Newton Baptist Church June 16th at 4:00 pm Car pooling to Covington, GA

Braves Game
Family Braves Day June 30th 2:00 pm Family Event

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15 Reasons to believe in the value of the local church


1. It is Gods idea. It is Gods plan. a. Growing together corporately has always been Gods plan since Adam and Eve to Abraham to the church age. b. He stated His plan to build His church. Matthew 16:18 2. It serves as identiCication for the believer. a. Through Baptism and the Lords supper people identify themselves with a relationship with God through the death of Jesus. b. Church discipline allows for clariCication to this world on the distinctives of true Christianity. 1 Cor. 5 3. A promise was given to the church and to no other organism or organization. Matthew 16:18 4. We are told to be part of a local assembly. Hebrews 10:24,25 5. Jesus cares for the health of the church which creates a desire in me to be involved in it. Revelation 1-3 6. Obedience to many commands and the ordinances require involvement in a local church. a. You can not take it to the church as we are told in Matthew 18 if you are not part of one. b. It allows us to fulCill the many one another commands of the Bible. i. Teach and admonish one another with songCol. 3:16. ii. Comfort one anotherI Thess. 4:18. iii.Edify one anotherI Thess. 5:11. iv.Exhort one another Heb. 3:13; 10:25. 7. Jesus associated Himself with the church in that we are His body. a. Jesus said He loved the church. Eph. 5:25 b. Jesus said Paul was persecuting Him when Paul was persecuting the church. 8. The local assembly is where God has assigned us the responsibility of upholding the truth. 1 Timothy 3:15 9. God saves and gifts believers for the purpose of good works, and those are to be done through the local assembly (Eph 2:10,19; 4:7, 12-16). 10.God has graciously granted accountability to us through godly leadership. Hebrew 13:7,17 11.The church is helpful and needful in fulCilling our personal and civic duties as she declares all the counsel of God. Acts 20:27 12. The church has a responsibility to Jesus concerning the Gospel. Proclaim the gospel. (Matt. 28:18-20), Preserve the gospel. (1 Tim. 3:15), Display the gospel. (Eph. 3:10). 13. It aids us in the pursuit of knowing God through His Word. 1 Timothy 4:13 14. The local church is Gods tool for bringing His people to full maturity in knowledge and faith. Eph 4:11-13 15. To gather together will be the desired of the redeemed because we will love our brothers. 1 John 3:14-16, John 13:35

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