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Everyone Needs a Church Family

Everyone Needs a Church Family. Everyone Needs a Church Family. One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services. Everyone Needs a Church Family.

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Everyone Needs a Church Family

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  1. Everyone Needs a Church Family

  2. Everyone Needs a Church Family One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services.

  3. Everyone Needs a Church Family One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services. The true figures show that only about 21% of Americans actually go to church one or more times a week.

  4. Everyone Needs a Church Family One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services. The true figures show that only about 21% of Americans actually go to church one or more times a week. “Research has attributed this to lack of motivation,

  5. Everyone Needs a Church Family One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services. The true figures show that only about 21% of Americans actually go to church one or more times a week. “Research has attributed this to lack of motivation, negative media coverage of religion, and

  6. Everyone Needs a Church Family One Gallup Poll indicated that 41% of American citizens report they regularly attend religious services. The true figures show that only about 21% of Americans actually go to church one or more times a week. “Research has attributed this to lack of motivation, negative media coverage of religion, and boredom during the services.”

  7. Everyone Needs a Church Family The church is not a place or an event to go to.

  8. Everyone Needs a Church Family The church is not a place or an event to go to. The Bible teaches that the church is actually a wonderful family that God has given to us through which He can abundantly bless our lives.

  9. Everyone Needs a Church Family Matthew 12:46-50 While Jesus was still speaking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. And someone said to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.” But He answered the one who was telling Him and said, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, “Behold, here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven, he is My brother and sister and mother.”

  10. Everyone Needs a Church Family Ephesians 1:5 “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure.”

  11. Everyone Needs a Church Family Ephesians 1:5 “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure.” Ephesians 2:19 “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but your are fellow citizens with the saints, and are members of God’s household.”

  12. Everyone Needs a Church Family Ephesians 1:5 “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure.” Ephesians 2:19 “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but your are fellow citizens with the saints, and are members of God’s household.” 1 Timothy 5:1-2 “Do not sharply rebuke an older man, but rather appeal to him as a father; to the younger men as brethren; the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters, with all purity.”

  13. Everyone Needs a Church Family 1 Peter 1:3 “God has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family.”

  14. Everyone Needs a Church Family 1 Peter 1:3 “God has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family.” Romans 6:4 “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.”

  15. Everyone Needs a Church Family 1 Peter 1:3 “God has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of God’s own family.” Romans 6:4 “Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, in order that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.” Romans 8:15-16 “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.”

  16. Everyone Needs a Church Family But I already have a family…

  17. Everyone Needs a Church Family But I already have a family… Margaret Mead wrote, “Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.”

  18. Everyone Needs a Church Family But I already have a family… Margaret Mead wrote, “Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.” Jane Howard said, “Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”

  19. Everyone Needs a Church Family

  20. Everyone Needs a Church Family

  21. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS:

  22. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Spiritual Growth

  23. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Spiritual Growth Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”

  24. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Spiritual Growth Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:46 “And day by day continuing with one mind…”

  25. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Spiritual Growth Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:46 “And day by day continuing with one mind…” James 5:16 ”Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another…”

  26. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Spiritual Growth Acts 2:42 “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:46 “And day by day continuing with one mind…” James 5:16 ”Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another…” Galatians 6:1 “Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one…”

  27. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS:

  28. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Encouragement

  29. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Encouragement Ephesians 4:11-12 “And he gave some as apostles; and some as prophets; and some as evangelists; and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of service, for the edifying of the body of Christ.”

  30. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Encouragement Ephesians 4:11-12 “And he gave some as apostles; and some as prophets; and some as evangelists; and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of service, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” Acts 4:36 “And Joseph, a Levite of Cyprian birth, who was also called Barnabas by the apostles (which translated means, Son of Encouragement).”

  31. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS:

  32. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Love and Care

  33. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Love and Care 2 Thessalonians 1:3 “We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater.”

  34. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Love and Care Philippians 2:1-4 “If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, then make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.”

  35. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Love and Care Galatians 6:10 “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”

  36. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Love and Care Galatians 6:10 “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” 1 Corinthians 12:25-26 “There should be no division in the body (church family), but the members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.”

  37. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS:

  38. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Work Together

  39. Everyone Needs a Church Family • BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Work Together • Banana boxes with clothes for Partners 4 Africa • Brown Bag Program donating food for poor elderly • Damascus Way Home for Women and Children • Valley Interfaith Promise (food + shelter to homeless) • American Heritage Girls Troup 5244 • Campus Ministry for students at CSU • Jail Ministry helping released ex-offenders • Financial support to missionaries • Africa Mission Trip to Zimbabwe in 2013

  40. Everyone Needs a Church Family BLESSINGS & BENEFITS: Work Together 1 Peter 4:9-11 “Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has received a gift, employ it in serving one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, let him speak, as it were, the utterances of God; whoever serves, let him do so as by the strength (or ability) which God supplies: so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” 

  41. Everyone Needs a Church Family

  42. Everyone Needs a Church Family CHALLENGE:

  43. Everyone Needs a Church Family • CHALLENGE: • Choose to make Rose Hill your church home.

  44. Everyone Needs a Church Family • CHALLENGE: • Choose to make Rose Hill your church home. • Commit to gathering with church every time.

  45. Everyone Needs a Church Family • CHALLENGE: • Choose to make Rose Hill your church home. • Commit to gathering with church every time. • Do this for 3 months (until end of the year).

  46. Everyone Needs a Church Family • CHALLENGE: • Choose to make Rose Hill your church home. • Commit to gathering with church every time. • Do this for 3 months (until end of the year). • You will be abundantly blessed!

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