Walk Worthily – A Growing Church is Full of Changed Lives

Ephesians 4:17-19

May 29, 2022

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Walk Worthily – A Growing Church is Full of Changed Lives

Ephesians 4:17-19

“Owner’s Manual for the Church” – Bryan Chappell

1. Don’t Live Like Lost People (Pagans)

“There must be the complete abandonment of the old way of living”

Hardness of Heart

Darkness of Heart

Deadness

Recklessness — unrestrained abandonment to sin.*

2. How Can We Not Live Like Lost People?

We are to think differently

We are to respond to the truth differently

We are to act differently from the pagan culture.

The Law is Critical

Evangelism is Imperative

Life Change is Possible

  • Attributed to John Stott's work on Ephesians

“Spiritual gift.” It is a God-given ability or skill that enables a believer to perform a specific function in the body of Christ with effectiveness and ease.

  1. Leaders are to Equip the Saints
  2. The Saints are to Do the Work of the Ministry

Equipping

Serving

Building Up

How Should a Church Grow?

Attacks spiritual infantilism

Selfish Individualism is a mark of Immaturity.

1. Maturing Christlikeness

Rooted in the Scripture

Growing in the Knowledge of Jesus Christ

Demonstrating Spiritual Maturity

Making Much of Jesus

Schaeffer – “There are no little people in the kingdom of God and there are no little jobs”

2. Doctrinal Stability

3. "Truthing” in Love

Loving People enough to tell the Truth

Loving the Truth enough to tell it

4. Healthy Service