SERIES PART 4
A Spiritually Healthy Church where Christ is seen and heard
Matt. 28:19b; 133:1-3
Our vision, a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard, is where we are going.
Theme for 2026: “Living the best life in Christ through obeying God’s word.”
Being spiritually mature is living the best life in Christ through obeying God’s word
Living the best life in Christ is built on healthy relationships.
Healthy relationships are referred to in Scripture as fellowship.
Fellowship is the Greek word koinonia in first John 1:9, sharing life with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Our relationship with God and people must be healthy in order to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
Loving God and loving people is the recipe for living the best life in Christ.
Therefore, if we are going to be spiritually healthy to live the best life in Christ, we’ve got to work on building healthy relationships within the body of Christ.
The bible calls a healthy relationship, fellowship!
Therefore, we are going to obey the great commandment and the great commission because it is going to make us a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
The result of obeying is living the best life in Christ!
Two principles of growth to enable us to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
Three principles of growth to enable us to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
It is imperative and of the utmost importance that every member, including our children, understands where we are going and how we are going to get there.
A spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
The first Sunday, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to worship.
The second Sunday, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to ministry.
The first Sunday in March, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to evangelize.
Spiritually and practically, when a person is water baptized, they share in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
David observes the biblical fellowship of Israel.
Pleasant is the Heb. word naw-eem means lovely, delightful
God commanded the blessings through fellowship!
Theme for 2026: “Living the best life in Christ through obeying God’s word.”
Being spiritually mature is living the best life in Christ through obeying God’s word
Living the best life in Christ is built on healthy relationships.
Healthy relationships are referred to in Scripture as fellowship.
Fellowship is the Greek word koinonia in first John 1:9, sharing life with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Our relationship with God and people must be healthy in order to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
Loving God and loving people is the recipe for living the best life in Christ.
Therefore, if we are going to be spiritually healthy to live the best life in Christ, we’ve got to work on building healthy relationships within the body of Christ.
The bible calls a healthy relationship, fellowship!
Therefore, we are going to obey the great commandment and the great commission because it is going to make us a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
The result of obeying is living the best life in Christ!
The Great Commandment
Matthew 22:37-40, “Jesus said unto him, thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind. 38, “This is the first and great commandment. 39, And the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40, “On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."Two principles of growth to enable us to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
- Worship 2. Ministry
The Great Commission
Matthew 28:19-20, “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; 20, “ Teaching them to observe all things, whatsoever I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."Three principles of growth to enable us to become a spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
- Evangelism 2. Fellowship 3. Discipleship
It is imperative and of the utmost importance that every member, including our children, understands where we are going and how we are going to get there.
A spiritually healthy church where Christ is seen and heard.
- Obeying God’s commandment to worship Him
- Obeying God’s commandment to ministry
- Obeying God’s commandment to evangelize
- Obeying God’s commandment to fellowship
- Obeying God’s commandment to discipleship
The first Sunday, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to worship.
The second Sunday, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to ministry.
The first Sunday in March, we talked about obeying God’s commandment to evangelize.
- Obey God’s commandment to fellowship- vs. 20b
Baptize is baptizo in the Greek meaning to immerse“Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.”
Spiritually and practically, when a person is water baptized, they share in the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
David observes the biblical fellowship of Israel.
- They are united in purpose
- The 12 tribes of Israel going to the house of God together to worship God.
- They are gathering in unity, not just conformity.
- Vertical is loving God!
- Horizontal is loving people!
- The beauty of fellowship- vs. 1
Pleasant is the Heb. word naw-eem means lovely, delightful
- Fellowship is good for us
- Fellowship is pleasing to God
- Brothers and sisters dwelling together in unity is fellowship
- Dwell is yashab means to sit together, to remain
- Unity is gam means assembly of people
- David says, how good and how proper it is for the people of God fellowshipping with one another
- The beauty of fellowship is in the beauty of relationships.
- Loving, caring, and sharing
- The Joy of fellowship- vs. 2-3
- David describes the joy of fellowship with one of Israel’s most joyous occasions
- The consecration of the sacred office of priest
- Anointing oil is a symbol of the Holy Spirit
- Precious ointment that covered all of Aaron’s garment represents the abundance of blessing
- The oil represents the joy and gladness of being in fellowship with the LORD.
- The mountains of Hermon and Zion is God’s holy places where God’s people in fellowship gather to worship and praise God
- There the LORD commanded the blessing, even life forevermore
- Fellowship with God and God’s people results in God’s blessing
- Blessing is spiritual prosperity
God commanded the blessings through fellowship!
