WHAT GOD REQUIRES OF ELDERS

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"The reason local churches go liberal and die is because of unqualified or disqualified leadership."

You won’t find a church that is seriously devoted to prayer, if its elders aren’t seriously devoted to prayer. You won’t find a church that faithfully engages in discipleship, if the elders aren’t faithfully engaged in discipleship. Congregations follow their leadership, usually several steps behind, for good or for bad, and that is why there must be biblically qualified elders in every local church.

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God Sovereignly Uses Sinners

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God Sovereignly Uses Sinners

God doesn’t need men, but God chooses to use men at times to accomplish His sovereign will. We see this all the way through the Bible. He uses believers and unbelievers. Though absolutely sovereign, all knowing, all wise, and everywhere present, God uses sinners to accomplish His will. Believer, don’t think that your faithful service to your local body of believers is insignificant or accounts for little or nothing. God sees. God will use it even if you do not understand how. Eternity will reveal how your faithful service was used by the Lord in amazing ways.

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FAITH OR PRESUMPTION? ARE YOU TRUSTING GOD OR JUST BEING LAZY?

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FAITH OR PRESUMPTION? ARE YOU TRUSTING GOD OR JUST BEING LAZY?

The fact is, the Bible says a lot of things and some of those things seem to contradict each other. You want to do the right thing. You want to trust God, but you have a nagging feeling that you should do something besides pray, so you say to yourself, “The Lord will take care of it,” and saunter along chewing on a blade of grass. Are you exercising faith or being presumptuous? Are you trusting in the Lord or being lazy?

Rest assured, the Bible does not contradict itself. You should trust God, pray, and do something. But how do your needs, God’s sovereignty, His promises, and your responsibility to obey the Lord work together in the predetermined plan of God’s eternal, sovereign, and unchanging decree?

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WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS

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WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATIONS

"If we will not give Him glory in our prosperity and ease, God often puts us into impossible situations so that we will be forced to look to Him, pray to Him, and trust Him for deliverance."

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Is The God Of The Old Testament A God Of Wrath And The God Of The New Testament A God Of Grace?

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Is The God Of The Old Testament A God Of Wrath And The God Of The New Testament A God Of Grace?

"If you go to a church that doesn’t have doctrinally oriented expository preaching, it will show up as theological shallowness and lack of discernment in the congregation."

Don’t let those who do not know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, or those who have not read the entirety of the Bible, tell you that the God of the Old Testament is different than the God of the New Testament. There is only one God. He has chosen to manifest Himself in three distinct persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He is an immutable God and cannot change. In both testaments we see all of His divine attributes on display.

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