Getting the Message Out!                               

       A Model Church – I Timothy 1:12-20

         September 17, 2006

 

 

“What does a model church look like?”

 

 

BC – before Christ - 13

   - The problem?  Yours truly

 

     …blasphemer –

 

     …persecutor –

 

** the greatness of one’s sin has no bearing

on God’s acceptance

 

 

 

     … yet ignorant and unbelieving

 

 

- I Corinthians 2:14 -

 

- II Corinthians 4:3-4 -

 

- Leviticus 5:17-19 -

 

- Romans 1:20, chap 3 -

 

AC – after Christ – 14-15-16a

   - The answer?    

 

     Gospel:

* grace, mercy, faith, love *

 

IC – In Christ – 12,16

   - The result?      =

 

- Acts 26:16-17 –

 

- Jeremiah 23:21 –

 

 

God entrusted AND enabled Paul to do the work

 

- Zechariah 12:10 –

 

- I Corinthians 15:8 –

 

 

 

 

 

17 - Spontaneous

 

 

18 – 20…

 

 

       KEEP: guard / maintain / at all cost

- faith

 

- conscience – “with knowledge” –

 

 

“Bad habits produce bad doctrine…and vice versa”

 

    …”delivered unto Satan” –

 

 

 

 

 

A Model Church is made up of people who are active in

Getting the Message Out