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Worship
Inspiring
Worship Service
Inspiring worship
occurs where there is effective multifaceted communication
of attitudes, values, beliefs, and information:
1.
Between God and believers.
2.
Between believers and their fellow believers.
3.
Between believers and the unchurched.
Inspiring
worship is culturally relevant, a team effort, strategic,
multifaceted, celebrative and reflective. Inspiring
worship will be meaningful to regular attenders,
comprehensible to newcomers, and alive to the presence of
God and response oriented. When worship is inspiring, it
draws people to the services “all by itself”. It makes
going to church exciting and fun!
Fellowship
Bible Church is passionate about the Great Commandment.
Matthew
22:36-37
“Teacher,
which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said
to him, ”‘You
shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and
with all your mind."
Discipleship
Maturity
Discipleship is all about
bringing believers to maturity in Christ. It is important
to realize that evangelism is simply the first step in the
disciple making process. We must have at the core of our
ministry the goal of bring individual believers to
spiritual maturity. This is one of the primary purposes of
the church. Paul labored to present every person complete
or mature in Christ: Colossians
1:28, “And we proclaim Him, admonishing every man and
teaching every man with all wisdom, that we may present
every man complete in Christ.” The writer of Hebrews
reminds us to press on to maturity: Hebrews 6:1,
“Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the
Christ, let us press on to maturity…”
Maturity
is Christlikeness. It is men, women, and children
demonstrating the character qualities of Jesus Christ in
both their private and in public lives. God’s goal is
for the church to be filled with ordinary men, women and
children who exemplify the extraordinary integrity,
temperament, wholeness, compassion, individuality,
boldness, righteousness, earnestness, love, forgiveness,
selflessness, and faithfulness of Jesus Christ!
We
would describe a maturing believer as one whose life
reflects a growing commitment to:
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Biblical
accuracy and authority
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Personal
purity and integrity
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Evangelistic
courage and concern
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Healthy
relationship and the priority of family
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Serving
others by doing the work of the ministry
Fellowship
Bible Church is fully committed to the Great Commission.
Matthew 28:19-20
19
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and
the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I
commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the age.”
Fellowship
Bible Church holds fast to the authority of the Word of
God.
2
Timothy 4:2
2
preach the word; be ready in season and
out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great
patience
and instruction.
Community
The
Church
The church is described in the
Bible as a body or family. We find in 1 Corinthians
12:12-20, how believers, being many make up one body.
“But now there are many members, but one body,” 1
Corinthians 12:20. Romans 12:4-5 states that, “For just
as we have many members in one body and all the members do
not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one
body in Christ, and individually members one of
another.” In his letter to the Ephesians Paul states
that the community of believers are of the same household
or family. Ephesians 2:19, “So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints, and are of God’s household.”
What is terribly missing in all too many churches is the
experience of “body life” – that warm genuine
fellowship of Christian with Christian which the New
Testament calls koinonia.
This is one of reasons the word Fellowship is used in our
church name. The New Testament lays heavy emphasis upon
the need for Christians to know each other, closely and
intimately enough to be able to bear one another’s
burdens, confess faults one to another, encourage, exhort,
admonish one another and minister to one another. As we
carry out the various “one another” ministries of New
Testament-style body life at Fellowship Bible Church, we
will come to understand the greatness of the church as
designed by God. There are over fifty “one another”
statements and commands in the New Testament that call us
to a special kind of life together here at Fellowship
Bible Church. The common thread in these “one another”
passages is the importance of relationships. The church is
not a building; it is a people. The church is not an
organization; it is an organism that is organized.
Fellowship Bible Church is committed to the importance and
priority of people and relationships.
Fellowship
Bible Church values people and relationships.
Genesis 1:26
Then
God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to
Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea
and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over
all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps
on the earth.”
Matthew 22:39
‘You
shall love your neighbor
as yourself.’
Luke 10:36
“Which
of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the
man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”
Service
Authentic
Service
We believe that biblical influence is realized through
serving others by investing our lives in them. Our
greatest satisfaction in life comes, when motivated by our
love for Jesus Christ, we exercise our gifts in serving
others. When we serve together as a body, we become an
authentic intentional witness to our community and the
world. In doing so we become a worshiping
community of influence.
Fellowship
Bible Church is committed to serving Jesus Christ by
investing our lives in serving others.
Mark
10:45
45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served,
but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
1
Peter 4:10
10 As each one has received a special
gift, employ it in serving one another, as good
stewards of the manifold grace of God.
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