Stand Fast

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Stand Fast

• Philippians 127-24
• September 30, 2007

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How can we do these as a church?

• Worthy Conduct
• Stand fast
• One mind
• Striving together
• Not shying away in suffering
• The same conflict

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We must have a common Vision

• Vision is a preferred future. A destination.
  Vision always stands in contrast to the world as
  it is. Visioneering, according to bestselling
  author Andy Stanley, is a clear mental picture
  of what could be, fueled by the conviction that
  it should be.
• -from book description for Visioneering by Andy
  Stanley

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• Strengthening Believers
• Saving Unbelievers
• how this church will strive toward the vision

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Many Ingredients for success in

• Our own life
• Our cell group
• The Sunday Service
• Outreach Ministries
• The broader Body

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What is Your Part?

• Christ is the head
• from whom the whole body,
• joined and knit together by what every joint
  supplies,
• according to the effective working by which
  every part does its share,
• causes growth of the body for the edifying of
  itself in love.

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Acts 240, 46-47

• 42 And they continued steadfastly in the
  apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the
  breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• 46 So continuing daily with one accord in the
  temple, and breaking bread from house to house,
  they ate their food with gladness and simplicity
  of heart, 47 praising God and having favor with
  all the people. And the Lord added to the church
  daily those who were being saved.

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• Small group leadership is one of the hardest,
  yet most fulfilling challenges one can
  accept.Small group leadership demands immense
  patience and perseverance. It is extremely
  difficult to work for a harvest that seems slow
  in coming.
• -from The Pocket Guide to Leading a Small
  Group, pg 5.

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What is your part?

• My affection toward you all
• The pattern
• What we can do today

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