Marks of a Healthy Church

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Marks of a Healthy Church Romans 16
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More than just a list of names...

• Includes a wide variety of people
• Jews and Gentiles
• men and women (9 women 5 highly commended)
• slaves, former slaves, wealthy patrons

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More than just a list of names...

• Includes a wide variety of people
• Includes 3 home churches
• Commends them for their service
• Pheobe servant... helper of many
• Prisca Aquila fellow workers... for my life
  risked their own necks
• Mary worked hard
• Urbanus our fellow worker in Christ

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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)

Matthew 202628 ...whoever wishes to become
great among you shall be your servant, and
whoever wishes to be first among you shall be
your slave just as the Son of Man did not come
to be served, but to serve, and to give His life
a ransom for many.
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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)
• Find a place to serve
• Praise peoples service

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Danger of false teaching (v17-18)
Galatians 18 But even if we, or an angel from
heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to
what we have preached to you, he is to be
accursed!
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Danger of false teaching (v17-18)

• Divides believers (v17)
• Deceives believers (v18)

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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)
• Devoted to essential doctrine (v17-20)
• Determine what beliefs are essential
• essential One God, One Gospel (v25-27)
• essential truthfulness of scripture
• essential return of Christ heaven hell
• non-essential end-times details
• non-essential sign gifts (tongues)

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Doctrine
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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)
• Devoted to essential doctrine (v17-20)
• Determine what beliefs are essential
• Know the essentials by heart

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Essentials
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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)
• Devoted to essential doctrine (v17-20)
• Determine what issues are essential
• Know the essentials by heart
• Beware teaching that contradicts the essentials

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Marks of a healthy church

• Full of selfless servants (v1-16)
• Devoted to essential doctrine (v17-20)

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