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“You should hear the gospel articulated. The good news of a holy God who made all us, men and women, being made in the image of God. All of us being sinful. In Adam and Eve, our first parents, we’ve sinned. And we’ve confirmed that and ratified that in our own life experience. We’ve rebelled against God. Because God is good we’re in trouble. But God in his great love has sent his own Son to be incarnate as a man, so he’s fully God, fully man, truly God, truly man. He lived a perfect life, trusting his Heavenly Father perfectly. He died on the cross not because he needed to die himself, because he was without sin, but in order to be a substitute--a sacrifice--for all of us, who would turn and trust in him, for our sins. God raised him from the dead. From Roman 4 we know that that’s how we were justified, because we’ve been set right because of that resurrection. We know God accepted the sacrifice. Christ ascended to heaven where he presented the sacrifice to his Heavenly Father. And that’s the Good News that we give then, that we can be forgiven of our sins if we rely on and trust in Jesus as Savior. If we’re visiting a church then we want to hear that message in the sermon, we want to hear that reflected in the songs and hymns that are sung, we want to hear it reflected in the Bible passages that are read, in the way the person introduces the Bible passages that are read, in the way they pray, we want to see the people of God as people who have in common not necessarily the fact that they have things in common, but that they all love the gospel. Apart from that we can have a lot of things that are not in common.” -Mark Dever⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ep. 85 | Finding a Healthy Church | Dr. Mark Dever⁣⠀
“A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church that continually strives to take God's side in the battle against the ungodly desires and deceits of the world, our flesh, and the devil. It's a church that continually seeks to conform itself to God's Word.”⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ In this week's episode, Mark encourages us to read through the New Testament in order to look for things that should mark the local church, to make a list of those things, and to start praying them over our local churches.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Here are a few prayer points for starters:⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ -Pray that there will be faithful, biblical teaching and preaching of the Word of God.⁣⠀ -Pray that your local church will intentionally live out the universal truths of the gospel in the context of community. ⁣⠀ -Pray that by God's grace, the leaders in your church will uphold the biblical mandates for elders and pastors as laid out in 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1.⁣⠀ -Pray that the members of your church will give generously to the cause of the gospel as described in 1 Corinthians 16:1-4.⁣⠀ -Pray that the church will not only make disciples locally, but globally as well, as Jesus exhorted us to in Matthew 28:16-20.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ep. 85 | Finding a Healthy Church | @markdever
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⁣“Friend, what are you looking for in a church? Good music? A happening atmosphere? A traditional order of service? How about: a group of pardoned rebels . . . whom God wants to use to display his glory . . . before all the heavenly host . . . because they tell the truth about him . . . and look increasingly just like him - holy, loving, united?”⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ― Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ep. 85 | Finding a Healthy Church | @markdever
On today's episode we'll hear from Dr. Mark Dever, the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and the president of 9 Marks, on how to find a healthy church. Whether you’re on the hunt for a church or if you’re already involved somewhere, we think you’ll walk away encouraged to follow Jesus with his people for his glory. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Mark said, “You need to assume that Christ loves his church. When we see in 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, and Romans he mentions gives gifts that he gives his Church. He gives those gifts exactly because he loves the sheep for whom he died. He wants to see them built up. So he gives elders and teachers to churches exactly to bless people. There’s no reason you would try to live the Christian life apart from the blessing of Christian teaching by the very people that God has given his Spirit to teach his people. So, you wouldn’t want to do that. You’d want to go to a place where there is the evident work of God’s Spirit giving gifts to people who the Word well, who can teach it well, and that encourages you in your own walk with the Lord.” ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ We pray this conversation serves as a helpful tool for ya’ll as you pursue local church involvement and service for the glory of God!
“Jesus gave us our great and glorious commission when he told us that the church is to make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and to teach God’s people to observe and obey all that he commanded. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ These three gospel imperatives, it’s important for us to see, are bookended by his strong statement that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to him and he is with us! So, what seems like an impossible mission is possible because of who he is! This is what the church is to do.” ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ As we close out this week of focusing on the local church, we pray that the weight of Christ's presence in your life would be made prevalent.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ That as you go about your walk through his commision, you would always be aware of his gentle but mighty Spirit who is with you always to carry out the work of the Father in and out of your local church buildings. ⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ ep. 84 | The Local Church | Susan Hunt