Maturity class- January 5th
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The HCCC membership manual outlines the organization's beliefs, purpose, strategy, and structure, emphasizing the importance of discipleship and the centrality of salvation through Jesus Christ. Key topics include the severity of sin, the significance of God's grace, and the distinction between cultural and biblical Christianity. It calls for a commitment to make disciples and stresses that salvation is a transformative experience rather than a mere decision.
Maturity class- January 5th
- 2. 1. Our Salvation A. B. 2. Our Statements A. B. C. D. 3. Brief History Our Target Our Growth Plan The HC3 Strategy Our Structure A. B. C. D. 5. Purpose: Why we exist Vision: What we intend to do Faith: What we believe Values: What we practice Our Strategy A. B. C. D. 4. Are you a Christian? The Symbols of Salvation How we are organized for Growth Our Affiliation What it means to be a member Now that I am a member, what next? HC3 Quiz
- 3. Our Salvation O Man Sinned – The severity of Sin and the consequence of sin. 3 O O O O O O O Chapters into the Bible, and man sinned. Gen 3. 6 Chapters in man is inclined to evil. Gen 6:5-7. Samples of God’s response to Sin. Gen 19, Numb 15, Jos 7, Lev 10, 2 Sam 6. Annihilated for looking back, stoned for picking sticks, consumed for one wrong offering, killed for one wrong touch e.t.c. God takes sin seriously. The scales for sin – what and against whom? (analogy of a slap) Consequences of sin – Col 1:21, John 8:34; Tim 2:26, John 3:20; Eph 4:18, Rom 6:19, Rom 1:28; 2 Cor 4:4, Rom 1:26; 1 Pet 2:11, Rom 1:24; Gen 8:21; Matt 9:12, Rom 3:10-18, Eph2:1-2 – We were dead in Sin! God’s wrath against sin – Ps 5:5-6, John 3:36, Ps 1-50 (14 times) God’s Gracious Initiative – Dead men don’t invite, God invites men. Deut 7:7-8, Jer 1:5, John 15:16 The Divinity of Jesus, His Invitation and sacrifice – Matt 1-4, Matt 4:19. (analogy, in matters of love), Jesus – lamp, high priest, sinlessness, Is 53:5-6. The Cross as an expression of God’s mercy and wrath in their fullest. Research the accuracy of Prophecy about Jesus. Our Salvation - I am not saved primarily because I decided, but because God in Jesus decided. The Concept of Adoption. God Seeks. Eph 1:3-6, Luke 15, 1-7. God initiates, we accept responsibility.
- 4. More to Our Salvation O Our Salvation is not merely by confessing – O Salvation by accent and repeating a prayer, or Salvation by accepting God’s invite to die to live. The cost of discipleship: Peter, Andrew, James, John, Saheed. Dangerously deceived: Matt 7:21-23. O Cultural vs biblical Christianity. Repeated rededication Gal 2:20. Matt 7:13-14. Matt 10:1722, Matt 16: 16, 24-24 Matt 24:9, Luke 14: 26-27,33. Belief in context James 2:19 (demons and others believe), John 3:16, Acts 16:31, Rom 10:9 (arguments- Matt 7:21-23). One of the biggest ploys of the Devil in our generation is to allow people to believe they are Christians when they are not – Dangerously deceived. (analogy of a man hit by a truck) Matt 4:17. Jesus’ first word – Repent. John the Baptist Matt 3:2, Acts 2:37-38 first salvation message. Ez 14:6, 1 Thes 1:9-10, (analogy – the wooden idol and the western satisfier)
- 5. More to Our Salvation O Our Salvation is not by following certain paths O The critical difference between Followers of Jesus and all other world religions are, 1. 2. 3. 4. O All others have 8 fold paths, 5 pillars, rules and regulations, only Jesus said, follow me! All others have teachers showing the path, Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. All died, Jesus lives. All others are religions and burdens of rules, Jesus made a call for a personal relationship. Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, makes him timeless and his words relevant through all ages 1 Cor 15. There is one way and judgment for other ways John 5: 22-24, 26-29, Rev 20:11-15. No need for satanic questions – Did God really say? Mark 9:4348, Rev 20:15, Rev 21:8, Rev 14:11, (symbols? For what?). We no longer live in the horror of hell – “hell of time”. Eternal life for believers John 3:16, 11:2526, 14:1-6, Rev 21: 1,4
- 6. More to Our Salvation O Our Salvation is by Grace only, not works. O Flesh cannot be holy. God gives a new heart and a new spirit. John 3, Ez 36:25-28, Jer 31:33-34, Matt 1:21, John 1:29, Is 1:18, Ps 51:2, 1 Cor 6:11, 1 John 1:9, (marriage analogy – all yours is mine), O Following Jesus requires devotion to his word. John 8:31-32, John 15:7, 1 Cor 2:16, Rom 12:2, Col 3:9-10, 2 Cor 10:5. O Our Salvation is not to simply be saved O Matt 4:19 The mission must be clear from start! He won’t call them O O O O to do it, he will cause them to do it. Matt 28:19-20 Starts with a call, ends with a commandment. We were saved to make disciples. Transformed to transform. Transformation of mind, desires, wills, relationships, purpose for living. If you are a true disciple, you will be supernaturally compelled to make disciples. You must want to, not have to. Believing requires proclaiming – no such thing as privatized Christianity. With the realities of judgment and sin, it is inconceivable not to proclaim. It is arrogant to be silent. Luke 24:47, Rev 5:9. John 15:7. Jesus was promising to give everything needed to to spread your truth from wherever I live to the ends of the earth. Summary of our Story. Discipleship has become our souls supreme desire
- 8. Our Strategy
- 10. HC3 Quiz