Okay so the reading
this morning is from Ephesians chapter 4
so Ephesians chapter 4
and the Bible reads in verse 1
I therefore the prisoner of the Lord
beseech you that you walk worthy of all the vocation wherewith ye are called
with all lowliness and meekness with longsuffering forbearing one another
in love endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace
there is one body and one spirit even as ye are called in one hope of your calling
one Lord one faith one baptism one God and Father of all
who is above you all and through all and in you all
but unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of
Christ
wherefore he saith when he ascended up on high
he led captivity captive and gave gift unto men
now that he ascended what is it but that he also descended fast
into the lowest parts of the earth he that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all heavens that he might
feel all things and he gave some apostles and some
prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting
of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of
Christ till we all come in the unity of the
faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God
unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ
that we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro and carried about with
every wind of doctrine by the slight of men and cunning
craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive
but speaking the truth and love may grow up into him in all things
which is the head even Christ from whom the whole body fitly joined together and
compacted by that which every joint supplyeth
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part
maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love
this I say therefore and testify in the Lord that ye henceforth walk not as
other gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind having the
understanding darkened being alienated from the life of God
through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart
who being past feeling have given themselves over to
unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness
but you have not so learned Christ if so be that you have heard him
and have been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus
that you put off concerning the former conversation the old man
which is corrupt according to this deceitful lust and be renewed in the
spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man which
after God is created in righteousness and true holiness
wherefore putting away lying speaking every man truth with his neighbor
for we are members one of another be angry and sin not
let the sun go down let not the sun go down upon your wrath
neither give place to the devil let him that stole steal no more
but rather let him labor working with his hands the things
thing which is good that he may have to give to him that needeth
let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth
but that which is good to the use of edifying that it may minister grace
unto the hearers and grieve not the holy spirit of God
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption
let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor
and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice
and be kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another
even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you
uh could I please ask uh brother Benjamin just playing praying for the
service
okay the title of my sermon today is
how to become a good church how to become
a good church right so um the population of this country guys
england is 56 million so 56 million in this country
um and it is it is a wicked wicked country isn't it we've
um you know we all live here some have been here longer than others and
wow what a place uh sister Sarah I know right now is studying this and
and kind of coming up with a lot of info about that and it
I mean it's just mind-boggling how how bad this place is we we've got
you know you see perverts everywhere you see
this liberalism just growing especially amongst the young
amongst the so-called intelligent the educated
um just walk out on the street look at the
the way people dress um the way kids behave my kids were lost in school
um it's just over three years ago now and
wow I mean you you know even a fairly what was considered a fairly nice school
you you wouldn't want your kids spending any time with these
these these other kids sadly and um and the stuff coming out of their mouths the
way they behave the stuff they're allowed to watch
they're just just crazy the the drugs in this country
I mean they're just a if you if you I mean I look back to
people I used to know and um I've still kept in contact with some
people to try and get them saved and wow the lives are just it's pretty bad
and you can kind of see that you can see
what's going on with this country and how bad it is when we're basically
the guinea pigs for some terrible vaccine with I mean
also this you know all sorts of rumors and
stuff and I don't know what you can and can't believe but
wow I mean this country are the first people to be getting jabbed up with a
suddenly newly made vaccine and I mean it
is it any wonder when you look about and see what it's like we've got
just another quick stat for you 190,000 abortions in 2018 in England alone
100 over 190,000 abortions um and I think something which is telling
is throughout this whole country we have
we did a count didn't we we had it up recently and I counted
10 churches in England with the right gospel and the right bible
okay 10 churches now if you think about the United States for example
and don't get me wrong they've got a lot of problems there as well we're about
six of their population there's 328 million in the United States
that's the equivalent of only 60 churches in the whole of the states
with the right gospel and the right bible now can you imagine the pulpit
banging going on with some of the preachers we know and love
if if it got to the point where there was literally only that many churches
I'm not saying churches which have everything right
just that have the right bible and gospel and by the way of those 10
churches none of them are I don't think are really soul winning
so of those churches in this country and we know like I preached on this a while
ago for example in um in when when it came to
Sodom being destroyed God agreed not to destroy it for 10
righteous just 10 rights in a place as wicked as that
he would have not destroyed it for 10 righteous and
proverbs 14 34 says righteousness exalteth the nation but sin
is a reproach to any people and if we could get some righteousness and
righteousness obviously through through save christians first and
foremost but but even just to improve the righteousness of this nation
things would improve here and we do need a church we often talk about needing
good churches here don't we we you know all of us together have regularly talked
about we you know if only we had a good church if only we had this church oh we
need good churches well we're going to see what is a good
church in a minute but you know make no mistake like this
country as wicked as it is it is receptive in some areas now some
aren't you know and we I've sold done soul
winning in many different areas around the country
but some are really receptive the other week um myself
John and my daughter went to somewhere called Tilbury not far from here and
I mean we were just one group together so we weren't we didn't separate out and
in the space of about two hours I think two hours of soul winning
six salvations in two hours literally every door you knocked on which I mean
we even of those as well as those six we had a
couple I think we had a child who we were interrupted halfway through the
pair whenever they were receptive just everyone was interested in the one
person that really wasn't the one scorner
John ended up I don't know what he did but but next thing you know the guy got
saved you know after a bit of a kind of half hour debate and stuff and he just
knew he was going to get saved anyway so
you know there are places like that and and
you know this there's some low-hanging fruit here and
we need to get organized like we need to get out and be able to then build from
there as well so we we often say don't we finally we
had a church like this and if we had a good church we'd move
closer to a to a good church and well you know now's a test because we've
got a chance and you know I want to show you a few things
in a minute about about what that's going to be because it's not just about
your favorite pastor your favorite preacher and we do have a chance as we
all know um we we we have the possibility that
this could grow into a church and we have some backing with that and
um and it's all down to us now and that's us not just myself
not just just a song leader you know it's all of us and all of us are gonna
get to play a part in this so and you know amen we have a great group
here so everyone here amongst these 10
churches in this country and and i'll get onto those in a minute
amongst those 10 churches we still everyone here pretty much is
right yeah everyone is regularly soul winning
regularly getting out um trying to live right for god and
that's without without the backing of a church without that community
and wow like what a start what what a start of a church we could be we could
also be a problem to a start of a church as well because we've all been doing it
our own way haven't we and we've all kind of
you know been picking and choosing our pastors online or whatever else but
we have a great opportunity we have a great group of people here
um now you know like i say there are people here who've been out for years
and the only thing and we've just got to be
careful is that we haven't maybe got a little bit too comfortable
so some might be well yeah but you know i'm
quite happy at my church i just get by there go once a week
maybe twice maybe maybe they go to all three services
maybe um you know still do your soul winning
you know doing what i'm told you know life's going okay for it for you well
um we'll talk a bit about you know why a good church is so important but
just remember like we might be going out soul winning but the great commission in
matthew 28 was to go you therefore and teach all
nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the son of the holy
ghost teaching them to observe all things
whatsoever i've commanded you and lo i am with you
all way even until the end of the world amen so
we in general only really fulfilling one part now i'm not going to go i'm not
kind of turning into one of these kind of non-soul winning pastor christian
types ah it's only part of it you know like
you're somehow well you know what's the point if you only get them saved no
getting them saved obviously is important we we know about hell
where the bible's clear about hell we know what we're doing when we're getting
people saved but i know myself when i'm so winning in
london i've got nowhere to send people i i can't even encourage them
where am i even encouraging them to get baptized you know drive all the way down
to where i'm i'm a church most new believers like i
know when i was a new believer driving out to a church i don't think i
would have done that and and it's it's tough we're getting
people saved to teach them as well we're kind of giving them a few
maybe we're giving them a youtube cog i listen to this preaching maybe we're
following up but it's nothing like what we should be
doing what we can do with a church behind us in this country
and then what will go on it's not just going to be the one we want to grow
don't we we want to end up with churches planted all over this country
okay so what will make us a good church um i don't know about you guys anyone
see um the 15-year little video of faithful
word wow that was inspiring wasn't it um that that was an inspiring video for
me that really inspired me um and there's no reason with a group like
this remember part you know don't get me wrong i'm not
trying to compare you know anyone here to maybe people
faithful word right now but he started in his living room
he didn't start with a group already ready and raring to go
and he's built that from his living room okay
we're right now in a building we're not a church yet but it might
it could be pretty soon okay um if you have a look in ephishian so
where we were in chapter four so sandwiched between the the sort of great
doctrine of the first half of the book of ephishians
particularly chapter two if you're ever talking to zionists 11
to 19 and and the second half where we've got this real practical
instruction don't we living righteously there's this passage of scripture um
okay in chapter four this passage of scripture
from verse seven
okay we've got sorry in verse seven to eight we've got paul explaining about
about about gifts yeah he's talking about the gifts given to us then from
verse 11 we've got and he gave some apostles and some
prophets and some evangelists and some pastors
and teachers for the perfecting of the saints for
the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of christ
till we all come in a unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god
unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ
though we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro
and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of men
and cunning craftiness whereby they lay lay in wait to receive
but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in
all things which is ahead even christ from whom the whole body
fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supply
according to the effectual working in the measure of every part
make an increase of the body to the edifying
of itself in love okay so
first 11 and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists
and some pastors and teachers okay how to become a good church number one
it's by working as a team working as a team okay so
look at that in verse 11 you've got apostles
so this isn't where i start telling you i'm now a possibly and then
got some healing to do guys uh okay so we know obviously the apostle the
apostolic age is over but prophets preachers okay we we we need
preachers and it's not just the person standing up
leading a church who's who's who's a preacher obviously we preach the gospel
don't we when we go out but as well you know if we if we eventually
become a church guys we need guys who are able to step up and preach
um we need people that can rotate you know we're
working full time it's like a church is hard doing three sums a week is hard
you know it's pretty pretty different especially at the beginning when you're
learning the ropes but we need people that are able to get up
able to preach that's what the men's preaching nights are going to be a be
about but we need preachers and eventually
we're going to need preachers we're able to go out and go to go
go out and and eventually start other churches
preach at other churches we need preachers preachers who are going to
preach preach the bible and stand on the word
of god okay evangelists now obviously we all
we all are evangelists to some degree but there
are some there are some here that have the
ability with maybe life
you know reasons maybe they don't have a family at this point
um maybe they don't have other things which make it hard of them to get out so
regularly um you know i'm thinking right now for
example especially when he's away you know brother kenton here you know
he's out he's out soul winning all around the world you know we and and we
need that but we need that around here i'm thinking as well like brother john
over there i think up until his little baby was born was out maybe three times
a week was that was that right john with your
wife for the last you know several months now and um you
know we we need evangelists um and this this list in verse 11 it's not
an exhaustive list yeah there there is like there's a part that
everyone here everyone including kids everyone will have a role to play and
thinking about kids yeah like you definitely have a role to play
not just in so many soul winning great i i don't know about you guys i know when
i'm out with my kids and pretty much i'm always so winning with my kids nowadays
um i i know when the odd time that i'm not with them
the reception is just a little bit different on the door people are just a
little bit more open a little bit happier to have a talk a
little bit less wary when i'm with my kids in general
um and and i'll tell you what kids as well
you know they can be trained up to give the gospel
to other kids you know and and yeah for me like it's a great
great thing when you see a child giving the gospel and and parents a lot of time
relax a little bit more i've obviously been able to do that with my daughter
be able to say look would you like my daughter to explain to your
son daughter how to get saved and and yeah yeah okay you know and maybe they
wouldn't have had it been me and and sometimes i know they won't have it had
it been me um so kids soul winning but kids as well
you know we're hoping to build up eventually have a church and be building
up and and we're going to have new
believers come new believers with families kids that you guys are going to
have to be able to fellowship with them be a good influence be able to to build
those children up as well encourage them to want to live for the lord
um so kids like that there's you know you're just as much a part of this
church and you're growing to be you know we if we make a church here
we don't want this church to suddenly stop you know you know
unless we suddenly go into the tribulation
we want this church to just keep going keep going and that means you're the
next generation in in in the churches that we want to start
building this country so kids are a big part of it as well
and like i say everyone has a role to play it's easy isn't it when we
when we're looking for a church going to a church well what's it going to give me
what's it going to do for me and and don't get me wrong yeah you want
to be you want to you want to be edified in a church for sure
but a church a real church a proper church we should all be playing a part
in that and doing things for each other and being a part of that church being a
success um okay if you and and it is going
there's a bit more detail is if you go to first corinthians 12
first corinthians and chapter 12
okay and it's speaking about spiritual gifts but from verse 14
first corinthians 12 verse 14 for the body is not one member but many
if the foot shall say because i am not the hand i am not of the body is it
therefore not of the body and if the ears shall say because i am
not the iron i am not of the body is it therefore not of the body
if the whole body were an eye where were the hearing if the whole body were
hearing where were the smelling and now have god set the members every
one of them in the body as it has pleased him
and if they were all one member where were the body
but now are they many members yet but one body
and the eye cannot say unto the hand i have no need of thee nor again the head
to the feet i have no need of you nay much more those members of the body
which seem to be more feeble are necessary and those members of the
body which we think to be less honorable upon these we bestow more abundant
honor and our uncombly parts have more abundant comeliness
for our comely parts have no need but god have tempered the body together
having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked
that there should be no schism in the body
but that the members should have the same care one for another
and whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be
honored all the members rejoice with it now ye are the body of christ and
members in particular and god has set some in the church first
apostles secondarily prophets thirdly teachers
after that miracles and gifts of healings helps governments diversities
of tongues are all apostles are all prophets are
all teachers they're all workers of miracles have all
the gifts of healing to all speak with tongues to all interpret
but cover earnestly the best gifts and yet shall i
unto you a more excellent way okay have a look um verse 25 26
there should be no schism in the body okay we you know that's important we
want to if we want this church to thrive we want to all be
going the same direction together be looking to help each other with that
okay we should all if one suffers we should all care for each other as well
um then the rest suffer with them um now you look at some of this you're
thinking well we don't really you know miracles anymore you know the gifts of
healing diversities of tongues well maybe modern applications i don't know
um maybe brother alex does some miracles with
some sourdough starter i tell you um and uh you know there are some great
things that that people can do still and um
maybe maybe when you're looking at i don't know what we got here maybe when
you're looking at diversities of tongues okay yeah sure
you know we know that was that was a gift for that day but
i mean there are some people here that speak a lot of languages you know and
that can be a great help in a country like this and in a
multinational community that's around london and
and pretty much everywhere in this country yeah that could be a great thing
to have as well we all have a role to play
not just the leaders not just the people preaching
um
governments governments leaders you know they eventually if this
church if we become a church and it grows
you know there's going to be there's going to be need for for people who can
lead deacons maybe going out to to become
other church people that can take over there's going to be a lot
a lot to do and helps there's so much to do so much help to do even just
just like i said the cleaning rotor at the back there you know all of it all
makes a church and it all makes a group into what we
want to be which is a good church okay so we all um you know
i i suppose we all get this point don't we about teaming together and everyone's
probably read these parts of the bible before
um and you know you could probably give i could probably give a hundred different
team sport kind of analogies and you'd all
get it you know it's that's obvious but even um
i was thinking about this as well even individual sports so
um anyone here done i mean probably everyone's done to some degree but i
know i know brother john at the back there i
don't know about anyone else here like to quite a good level individual sports
and i tell you what how important is your team even in an
individual sport um i was thinking about it i was thinking
about when when i first went to thailand and i competed out there and i remember
i was all geared up i was all confident i had my first ever competition
and i was i was um i was about to get in the ring
you know in fact i got in the ring and i had a big group of guys from this
who are my team you know they were part of my group they were they were part of
the team they had people i trained with people that had trained me
people i've sparred with everything to get me ready and suddenly my opponent
pulled out and they had like a stand-in and suddenly i just saw their faces drop
everyone's like you'll be okay the coach is like don't
worry i was thinking i wasn't you know he's like it's you know
you're as good as him and i was like okay and it just dropped me and and the
first couple of rounds i mean i was i because it just it just affects you you
know straight away what was around me my team suddenly their confidence going in
me the way they the way their countenance was
and they weren't even saying anything but i could see that they had no
confidence in me and and i'll tell you what that that affected
me and it took me a couple of rounds so finally actually this guy wasn't as good
as they made out he was third round i probably won it but um
i knew that around sadly and it was only a three rounder but point being that
even in individual sports you see that in
in high level sports world just those fine details you know little things make
a big difference in the same for anyone who ends up
preaching for you know little things i i read um
jack harle's book on preaching and he he was saying that
before preaching before and and don't get me wrong he was preaching at big
auditoriums as well he would um he didn't want to talk about
anything he didn't want to get into any serious conversation he didn't want to
have to deal with any problems with his kids at home
he just almost wanted to be pretty much on his own until he preached
so he could just focus be in the spirit focus on his message focus on the result
of his preaching and and it's not just the distractions
that can be a problem it's not just you know the the effect
that the people their reactions can have on on
leaders as well um but but praying for your leaders as
well praying for praying for leaders of of if it's a church
of you know praying for those people praying for people is important but it's
not it's not just it's not just the leadership um
in a group in a group we know obviously you know first corinthians five i
preached on that a little while ago we know that there are things which
which which mean people have to be kicked out of a church
and and sin all different types of sin affects others it affects those around
you when you're not in the spirit when
you're not living right it will have a knock-on effect to a church and
and it is it's a group thing it you're all part of the body and how you behave
how you live how you how you you you hold yourself
what you're doing in your time away from the church is really important
i feel to make a church work um proverbs 11 14 says where no council is
the people full but in the multitude of counselors there is safety
we want to be able to you want to be able to in a church just ask advice and
get godly advice you want to be able to advise
talk discuss chat about things with each other and
if if there's people in the church who aren't reading their bibles who aren't
living right who aren't trying to follow the lord and
you know that's going to affect others around you as well
um so we need strong faithful people in the spirit to counsel each other
to be able to help each other um to be able to build each other up proverbs 27
17 says iron sharpness iron so a man sharpness the countenance of his friend
and um you know that that's going to be more and more apparent if we become a
church how we can build each other up help each other
okay so back to Ephesians 4 so 4 4 verse 11
Ephesians 4 11 we've got and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some
evangelists and some pastors and teachers okay so
how to become a good church by working as a team
and number two through biblically qualified leadership
biblically qualified leadership okay now what's
you know the the most famous i think passage for this if you turn to first
timothy 3 first timothy 3
and verse 13
sorry verse 1 to 13 first timothy 3 this is a true saying
if a man desire the office of a bishop he desireth a good work
a bishop then must be blameless the husband of one wife
vigilant sober of good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach
not given to wine no striker not greedy a filthy luca but patient
not a brawler not covetous one that ruleth well his own house having his
children in subjection with all gravity for if a man know not how to rule his
own house how shall he take care of the church of god
not a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of
the devil moreover he must have a good report of
them which are without lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil
likewise must the deacons be grave not double tongue
not given to much wine not greedy a filthy luca
holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience
and let these also first be proved then let them use the office of a deacon being
found blameless even so must their wives be grave not
slanderers sober faithful in all things let the deacons be the husbands of one
wife ruling their children and their own house as well for they
that have used the office of a deacon well purchase
to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith
which is which is in christ jesus okay so
obviously you know we're talking about leadership there
and there's some obviously big similarities about that and
um and and this this passage you know is a it's not just our why anyone who
wants to be a leader really we should be all aspiring to be like that leaders in
the home leaders at work you know in any any areas of our life
but um
verse 14 yeah see what he writes here at the end
these things right eye unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly
unless you pay for bible college and then forget what i just said
he didn't write that did he but wow what what what have we got what have we got
you know in these these churches here and all over the place you've got these
kids yeah coming out of bible college who who literally
can barely tie their own shoelaces they haven't got families they haven't been
through any of this they don't qualify yet they're up there
they're taking on roles of leadership in churches then we're
wondering why we have this problem well we probably don't we
we understand this i'm sure but so it's nuts
you i don't know like i've been now around a lot of churches in the uk at
least and um and i've been i've been to a lot
i've visited quite a lot and i've also kind of got in touch with a lot as well
because i've been searching for churches ever since i was i was saved and
wow it never ceased to amaze me the people you got out there
clearly clearly are disqualified clearly disqualified from the beginning
i mean to the point you've got people who look like blatant sodomites as well
up there some of them you've got you you've got clear
qualifications for leadership here and then instead
they've just gone for this man-made institution this bible college this
unbiblical thing um they come out with the same bad doctrine
it just it pretty much preached yeah i teach the same stuff there
and what's the deal with women at bible college what's all that about anyone
it's like it's like they're there for the hookup everyone's it's like
does anyone remember i don't know if anyone's old enough here to remember
blind date anyone remember that i don't want to go
into like worldly tv shows yeah but it's it just makes me think of that bible
college they're all just there just there trying to meet someone to get
married you know it's i mean you can only imagine you would
not want to send especially not your young daughters to
bible college i mean just unbelievable but um so they come
out with the same bad doctrine don't they
and there are reasons for these qualifications there are reasons for it
and some are obvious so having multiple children
having multiple children uh you know those of us here who have kids
i'll tell you what it doesn't half change you know and
it you learn to lead you learn or you hopefully do you either lead or you
don't you know it's one or the other um and and but there's a difference as
well there's a deal and this isn't knocking anyone that doesn't have kids
because you know we there are different things that come from different lives
and and hopefully you know you know hopefully those that do have
kids will learn what we're meant to learn from it but
psalm 127 um in fact yes turn to psalm 127
why is it so important to have have children
if you're going to be in leadership fair that but being a parent you know i
mean i'll tell you what i i was a lot more selfish before i started having
kids and and leading a church you need to
care about the people in your church you need to be able to think about others
when you're a single guy on your own the truth is the only person you need
to think about in general is yourself and it makes a big difference um okay if
you turn to acts 20, acts 20,
and in verse 28 so this is Paul speaking to the Ephesian elders here
and he says take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over
the which the holy ghost have made you overseers to feed the
church of God which he has purchased with his own blood
for i know this that after my departing shall grievous wolves
entering among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall men arise
speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them
therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years i cease not to warn
every one night and day with tears being a being a leader is serious serious
business in this in in you know when you're doing
things especially when you're leading a church leading a group
it is serious business so there are false prophets everywhere aren't there
and we know that we you know again something which you don't see preach
about much in a lot of these churches there are false prophets
everywhere look uh turn to second peter too
and we're back in actually he was i mean he's warning them with tears because
he knows what's going to happen he knows how bad bad it will go
and can go and in second peter too he says but there were false prophets also
among the people even as there shall be false teachers among you
who privately shall bring in damnable heresies even denying the lord that
bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction
and many shall follow their pernicious ways by reason of whom the way of
truth shall be evil spoken of and through covetousness shall they with
feigned words make merchandise for you whose judgment now the long time
lingereth not and their damnation slumbereth not
okay and it you know it's everywhere it's everywhere and now with youtube
what what you know we're you know we can be affected by this a lot more than
maybe back 50 odd years ago or not even you know not even that i mean i don't
know about you guys every time i i watch anything on youtube what's
suggested after us it's always a false prophet isn't it
um who do you get john macarthur do you know yeah
ravi zacharias i get billy graham yeah um and wow and and you know and and the
thing is yeah okay we might be wise to this you know but
um is there any wonder why the pastors that we love
the pastors we we follow and that we respect
are making a stand on this stuff and they have to make a stand and people
kind of oh they're so mean aren't they you know
why is it always infighting you get these stupid comments come up
well no wonder they have to make that stand because it's everywhere and if
they're you know we we might look at it go oh
you can tell you know they are but there's a lot of newer christians you
know back five six years ago would i've really been that discerning
no i know i wasn't you know and i'm sure many others as
well and they have to make a stand and that's
why in in uh in timothy chapter three there he
talks about being vigilant you know and it's important to be
vigilant um john for one says many false prophets
have gone out into the world and you know there's that there are i
think they're everywhere aren't they it's
amazing really for me i i sometimes just stand amazed at how many there are but
the bible says there are there are many and there are many aren't there
now um another important thing you know we saw was to have a
good report of them which are without and
you know these are just a couple of highlights i'm picky out of this because
you know it's easy to it's easy to to look at these it's easy for us and and
something you know i've really examined myself about
um and i think we all need to because i've there are probably people here that
would like to go on to to to lead you know churches to to help
lead you know in in different capacities and
the bible says to have a good report of them which are without yeah
because of really because the persecution will come you don't want
them to be able to go well a year ago or two years ago or three years ago and
it's easy isn't it because we go to these churches and you look at them you
just say i could do a better job than that
and you probably could to be honest we could probably everyone here could do a
better job leading leading a church than the vast vast
majority of churches in this country probably
borrowing a handful okay and but that doesn't mean that
we're qualified to lead and we've got to make sure we're
qualified to lead before we try and lead
because a good report of them which are without it doesn't mean well you know in
the last six months you know i've been doing things right
the last year you know or or whatever else no you you should have
people that are without not christians who are looking at at least respecting
the fact that you live right and that you have been living right
for a long time yeah not not to have a load of mud they can throw at you
because you know it will come won't it it will
come leading a church leading a proper church in this country
that's going to come so it's got to be week in week out over years
and the pastor teacher role it is it is the one in the spotlight isn't it
and you know with that you know who it like if
if you know with this if this becomes a church or in the future and and anyone
else goes out and becomes a leader of a church
you know we're going to need support encouragement prayers
you know we're going to need all that and again that's where that whole
teamwork comes in yeah okay so we've got we've got number one
yeah working as a team number two through
biblically qualified leadership okay just
look at ephesians four again we're going to be going backwards
back and forward to ephesians so maybe keep a finger in there
and verse 11 says and he gave some apostles
and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers
for the perfecting of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying
of the body of christ so for the work of the ministry and number three
i think to become a good church it's by working hard
okay hard working people is what we need and it's not just the leadership
everyone needs to be working hard every good church we know of and we love
has hard working past and hard working church members every single one
um these guys have started their ministry full-time jobs like i say no
preaching three sermons a lot of them three sermons a week with full-time jobs
families some some were even working extra hours
on top of our kind of golden 40 hours or whatever it is you know that that
that we were maybe maybe not so much recently working here these are hard
working people and and they continue working hard even
when they become full-time i mean amen for church plants say
because if that works out praise god that that that you know there
are pastors out there that want to still do hard work and even want to come over
here and plant churches missions you know going out and doing
mission trips is something a good church should be looking to do
the different events you know the different fellowship events so that
you're kind of getting that that you know you're getting that time that
fellowship that enjoyment for being with each other
and you don't have to start seeking it out with your work colleagues or
whatever else you know and that stuff takes work it all takes organizing it
all takes hard work you know and then all the extra stuff
the documentaries etc and and a lot of this it's not just a leader
you know this is a whole church doing this stuff and all playing a role and
all having a part in that and we've all everyone if we want to make
if we want to become a church we want to be a successful church we all need to be
saying right i'm going to work hard not i'm just going to be a once a week
or even i've come to three subs but i ain't doing nothing else you know we
you know we've all been praying for this haven't we and i i believe i do believe
yeah that that it's not just the praying that
it's everyone here who's been faithful for years
yeah just going out week in week out yeah let's encouraged each other as well
with this yeah let's let's put up with with some some
not so great churches at times you know and maybe have found better ones at
other times but but it's that where i think now
god's looking at us and going right i think i think you guys are ready you
know and we've all proud if only there was a church no we've shown something i
mean i know like you know people here have been
encouragements to me with it i know like over lockdown the encouragement like
brother dan there i mean me and him out like over lockdown
with a table just you know at the beginning it was like if because i've
just been door knocking before they announced it and had literally doors
slammed in my face people go you should be out you should be out you know
covid covid and you're thinking like how are we gonna like get the gospel and
then you know we we went out and what an
encouragement i think god's reward and i know everyone was doing their own
things you know and god's rewarding that yeah god's rewarding
that perseverance and i think i think you know if we if we just
we keep with that focus and not just ah well you know
now we've got it we could just kind of take the foot off no now we need to go
and do more and make make a church work so um
okay so again it's with the church members as well
and like i said before not just one service a week it always makes me think
there i won't name it but there was an old pastor a few
it's a few years ago now so um i i don't have a problem with saying this yeah
this this pastor is in this country yeah he is a full-time
missionary yeah full-time yeah he has yeah we went
to his house yeah he's got i think it was a five or six
bed house yeah um it i mean it was nice yeah full paid
for paid for by supporting churches yeah
around the states yeah full time and his family yeah now you're
thinking man like you're paid full time you can imagine what can he get done
imagine the soul winning imagine the services imagine all this stuff
one service a week one service a week on a sunday morning is all he does what
still now to this day i'll check before before this i just saw i wonder what
they're if they're still doing that one service a week yeah
and this is an independent baptist missionary
one service a week that is not what it should be is it we should be
you know that you know what so sweet full-time oh and so witty by the way is
is an hour twice a week of giving some leaflets
okay that's it that's it but that isn't what's going to make a good church is it
and no wonder that will never be a good church
we need to be out working hard soul winning soul winning is hard work can be
hard work can't it you know and some days you don't maybe feel like it it can
be hard it can be hard for the kids as well you
know and again we need you guys working hard with that
those of us with families if our kids are moaning complaining oh when are we
going oh you know it's don't really you know
what's the time you know like 10 minutes into soul
winning are we nearly done yet you know that that
that's not going to help that's not hard work we need the kids encouraging
wanting to be out there wanting to be working hard
to get people saved to and god will build the church i'm not saying all
those people are going to come to church but god will build it if we do the work
and it's not just handing out flyers is it it's not posting bibles through
letters the same church they've got like 10 000 bibles just
posting through letter boxes i was there at the time saying let's go
and knock the doors oh well you know you know we've got a
lot of bite so so i had to almost force forces pastor to come and knock
some doors whilst going up to the door and putting
a new testament bible through the door what what a colossal waste of money
10 000 they posted through the door that had been sent over for free from i think
tennessee or somewhere i mean amazing amazing
okay we also we need silent partners guys don't we so we need to try and
encourage encourage those because right now
we could do double the work if we had the same amount of silent partners as we
have talkers so we need to encourage people getting
saved those of you who are silent partners
keep going man because i'm not saying never talk but really like we need them
you know and we you know don't right there's no no
pressure there's no oh well it's a bit embarrassing if i'm still a
sudden not at all you know we need silent partners get right get your
gospel presentation right before you do talking about that um
something that that you know i'd suggest to everyone that
has anyone here seen the uh pastor him and there's
a full light series of of how they preach the gospel the instructional
yeah the seminar it's like 10 part okay onshore foundation baptist church's
website they've got all 10 parts under soul winning on it
um i went through this the other day fully i've done it years ago
and i'm terrible no i mean you know i really like i learned so much from it
and i was thinking wow like i really could have done with that because for me
like really i'd started before i'd even got into nifb preaching i started
somebody from like jack cole stuff and you know
don't get me wrong i still get people safe through work stuff and then
i i kind of i watched different presentations but they were the video
one so i kind of started incorporating that
and they're a bit less interactive you know and
so you're kind of copying how they do a presentation on a video but it's very
different isn't it that instructional is great i would
encourage anyone even if you have watched it maybe watch it again
um i know that that's how we you know how
really the idea is for us to be more like that kind of way of doing things
yeah okay um okay so
it it yes it can be hard work but it's the work of the lord so if you um if
you turn to first corinthians 3 8 so first corinthians 3
verse 8 while i read first corinthians 15 58
which reads therefore my beloved brethren be ye steadfast
unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord
for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the lord
okay so we should be always abounding why is it not
in vain well first corinthians 3 8 says now he that planteth and he that
walked with the one and every man shall receive his own reward according to his
own labor so as much as yeah people going to
hell should be a motivation for us for sure
building our church just doing what god tells us to do
is and should be a motivation but it totally cited the eternal rewards as
well guys we work hard in this life yeah the rewards are for forever okay they're
for eternity um
okay a good church a good church does need everyone working hard i went um
oh another like thing i was thinking about i was thinking about this i went
to a church a little while back i visited
um and they um they the pastor was up up the sorry they had
like a visiting pastor up the front and he was saying like yeah yeah come
trying encourage people to come out you know and i was thinking wow okay yeah
you know they put on their website they're in the soul winning here they're
gonna come out somebody so i had a look and um i was having a
listen so i'd had a look on the website and they had and he said yeah you know
come out because brother i can't remember the guy's name he said
you know he really puts a sort of shame yeah he's such a hard worker
and i was thinking yeah great and they said they said
he said you know no one can keep up with him and i was thinking wow he must be
getting a lot of salvations well it actually turned out no one
could keep up with him he was so fast between doors at putting a flyer through
the letterbox and this was their example this is a one
guy in the whole church soul winning church yeah
like that that's what what we're dealing with here okay like that was their hard
work but no we want to be hard workers going out giving the gospel don't we not
just how quickly we can get a leaflet through a letterbox
all right and same how how not and it's not just obviously how quickly we can
rack up salvations either because again anyone
could just get someone to pray it's getting people saved isn't it
okay so other hard work running this service
obviously all of this takes work uh the food
takes work the all the ladies like making all this food that's hard work
you know um the cleaning rotor which is i'm hoping is going to be full up there's
going to be work there um the praying that we should all be
doing for each other for this to become a church
um the the learning the learning of reading your bibles you know that's all
work yeah it's good work but it's work raising
new members raising the youngsters is work yeah
and it's all work that we should be doing with the church in mind
fellowshipping new people when we start getting people in here you know we don't
want to just be our own little clique and then just a couple of you
we want to be making that effort to be kind to be to try and encourage them to
to meet up with them you know to maybe swap numbers
um try try and try and get to know new people
um and then eventually hopefully missions as well
you know we want to be doing stuff as if we become a church when we're doing
stuff as a church proverbs 34 says the soul of the sluggard desireth
and had nothing but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat
so we want to get some good fat souls going on around here okay so
aphasians 4 again so if you've got figure in aphasians 4
um verse verse 12 to 14 okay so all of this for the perfecting
of the saints for the work of the ministry for the edifying of the body of
christ till we all come in a unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of
the stature of the fullness of christ that we henceforth be no more children
tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of
doctrine by the sleight of men and cunning craft in this whereby they
lie in wait to deceive so how to become a good church
number one by working as a team number two through biblically qualified
leadership number three by working hard number
four by building up the believers okay by
building up the believers building up the members of the church
um the preaching and teaching is for the perfecting of believers
um a good church service is is not for the unsaved
okay yeah we want to get people say we want to get people in the church
but but we go out to preach the gospel don't we that's the whole point yeah we
come in to be perfected to be edified um
okay so we talk a lot i mean i've heard all of us talk about that word edify
before edifying each other what does it mean to instruct and
improve the mind in knowledge generally and particularly more than religious
knowledge in faith and holiness okay so we come to church
to be edified here it says for the perfecting of the saints
for the edifying of the body of christ okay we're not getting edified at
churches with the gospel here in the gospel week in week out
okay that ain't happening that's not how we get edified
now um we we we join the service yeah we we we come to a service to learn
things to get built up to then be sent out hearing someone just
give the gospel obviously and and there's a lot of that
sadly a lot of churches um okay i was thinking of an analogy
with that but for the sake of time i'll leave that
um but how to build up believers okay so there's a few ways to edify and
perfect if you turn to second corinthians four
second corinthians four sorry second timothy four
my mistake second timothy four
second timothy four from verse one i charge thee therefore before god and the
lord jesus christ who shall judge the quick and the dead it is appearing in
his kingdom preach the word be instant in season
out of season reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering adultery
for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine
but after their own lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching
ears and they shall turn away their ears
from the truth and shall be turned unto fables
but watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an
evangelist make foolproof of thy ministry okay so in verse one he
charges them he commands them okay in fact he commands him so he's
talking to timothy he commands him okay he is and he's saying here he's
commanding him to preach the word be instant so that's sort of urgent
earnest jack so so it should be like when as a as a
preacher we should be seeing things and
preaching on them before they get out of hand
yeah preach the word be instant in season out season so in fashion or out
of fashion um okay reprove rebuke
okay so reprove is like express disapproval rebuke is harsh criticism
so maybe maybe my son you know is doing cartwheels over the baby you
know maybe i reprove him at first he does it again now it's time for a rebuke
you know probably probably a thrashing as well but okay
reprove and rebuke okay so there's times for
approval there's times for rebuke and we gotta you know we've got to hear
all of us you know all of us have to be ready
ready for to take a reproved take a rebuke
yeah and don't be the one that can't take that yeah
and and it's not personal and sometimes it's funny sometimes you hear preaching
you're like sure i'm sure that's about me and sometimes it probably isn't but
it's a word of god convicting you you know
and and can we really can we really take proper preaching
because some of us are going to find out aren't we we're going to find out
when we're there in a room getting preached at week in week out and i'm not
saying it's not all shouting and screaming because we're
going to see in a second there's another word there which isn't but
but we have to be able to take that to be able to deal with that
because if we can't maybe we're just so comfortable that pastor love you all's
church or whatever it is and it's not really love is it it's love of himself
but but that sort of where oh no you don't want to offend people nonsense so
we're all of us probably got quite used to that
we can distance like i always say you can distance when it's on youtube
to another church but the bible in proverbs 9 8 says reprove not to score
that lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man he
will love thee we want to be the wise men we want to
when we hear the word of god reproving and rebuking us
we want to love love that person love the word of god love god for doing that
um not not be the scorer the school there ain't a good person to be
okay so um we want to reprove rebuke now it also says exhort though and again
it's not all just screaming and shouting and
telling you what useless christians you are you know that the leader
preacher should be doing um the exhorting exhorting should be
encouraging with all long suffering that's enduring
patiently a doctrine okay so what is that doctrine that that
we should be encouraging with well verse three to four talks about is
sound doctrine for the time will come when they will not
endure sound doctrine but after their own lust
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and they shall turn
away their ears from the truth and shall be turned
unto fables okay it's going to be sound doctrine what are the fables well titus
1 14 says not giving heed to jewish fables and commandments of men that
turn from the truth okay and this makes me think of this
racist zionism nonsense okay and it is it's just racist nonsense isn't it this
that we get everywhere it just it really winds me up it makes me sick
first timothy 1 4 talking about fables says neither give heed to fables and
endless genealogies which minister questions rather than
godly edifying which is in faith so do okay endless genealogies how does
someone prove they're one of the chosen people prove they're a jew
without endless genealogies it's impossible it's so clear
in the word of god and the more you the more you read it the more it is so clear
this nonsense well what nonsense it is is zionism nonsense
and that's not the only doctrine there's so much bad doctrine
and and doctrine you know it does you know it does go hand in hand you
know in many ways because as soon as you start going wrong on one thing it just
it all goes wrong does it and then you end up with pre-tribulation raptures
people that aren't even prepared for persecution
it's crazy now um if you go back to to ephesians 4
and verse 13 says till we all come in the
in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god
unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of christ
so when we're perfected and edified and united we'll go on to be more christ-like
okay and and we'll do greater works for god okay verse 14
in ephesians still there in ephesians 4 that we henceforth be no more children
tossed to a throne carried about with every wind of doctrine by the slight of
men and cunning craftiness why but whereby they lie and wait to deceive
okay so we might think that we're grounded we we we understand those kind
of major doctrines but bad church to bad doctrine can and do
chip away at you for sure they do you start to question a little bit you
know and it's not just those big ones okay you're not going to question that
necessarily but it does it chips away it makes you
doubt the truth and that's a heart it's been a hard thing i've found it really
hard going to churches knowing the truth on
things going and trying to be a faithful church member trying to respect
etc and just being taught bad doctrine bad
doctrine bad doctrine it's really difficult
but i do think god's rewarding us all for this perseverance
but it makes you doubt the truth and a good church a good church needs to
preach and encourage with sound doctrine because they do go together for example
i was thinking about this recently um for example the reprobate doctrine
you can't in a way you can't really preach
oh you know you can preach sorry but repent of your sins
showing what nonsense is doesn't work without the reprobate doctrine
really does it because how on earth can you be go you're going to people well
you know of course of course you don't have to change it
we know we know it's faith alone it's clear as day
that you believe you believe yeah it's all about belief yeah
uh whosoever believeth in me should not page for everlasting life
but so then what you're saying you're saying that
that someone who does disgusting disgusting perversions at all sorts all
sorts to kids and everything could then believe and carry on doing
that stuff and be it just doesn't make any sense
does it and and i even had that with a password i was trying to talk a bit
about the repent of your sins but it is a false
you know they've become a false church i don't really know really whether it
ever wasn't i hope it wasn't but it become a false church they're preaching
hard this repetitive your sins and he said this well you know who am i
to say that if you know a homosexual um you know you know should he have to
stop doing that you know etc i think yeah probably you know
and it just doesn't work does it and and these these doctrines
you know the clear sound doctrine of the bible is perfect as soon as you mess him
up it starts messing up other things and
but there's little things as well in a church be a good church there are little
bits as well the conversations because yeah it might
be you know you might say well the preacher is going to get most things
right you know he's going to study for a week
before he preaches and it's hard you know for an hour of
talking and i might sorry if i go over a little
bit i've got a bit to say here for an hour of talking you are now and
again sure you're going to maybe say something a bit off or something not
that you you know of course you you know if you really are preaching something
hard that's a false doctrine that's a problem
but now and again you might say something a little bit off by mistake
but everyone here is going to spend hours fellowshipping chatting talking
being amongst each other and the things you say to each other have
an effect on the church and have effect on each other and if you're trying to
justify your little sin by trying to just push a little subtle doctrine
stroke you know it's not really sinful you're going to affect the church as
well and you and if we want to become a
church we need everyone to be make sure they're sound on their doctrine as well
yeah especially with new believers as well
okay so okay last bit sorry guys ephesians 4
okay verse 15 and 16 but speaking the truth in love may grow
up into him in all things which is ahead even christ
from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which
every joint supplies according to the effectual working in the measure of
every part maketh increase of the body unto the
edifying of itself in love okay how to become a good church by
working as a team through biblically qualified leadership
by working hard by building up the believers number five
by standing on the word of god okay standing on the word of god a church
needs to be speaking the truth the truth in love okay
not the worldly no offending people type of love okay we're not talking about
that nonsense we're talking about the truth in love and what's the truth we
know what the truth is john 17 17 says sanctify through them
them through thy truth it's the lord jesus speaking thy word
is truth okay this is the truth this is what we need to be speaking
in love okay so many churches claim to stand the word of god i mean you see you
look i mean i've been like a kind of tourist of statements of faith for years
and they all claim to stand on the word of god in the
originals or something the majority of them sadly you know of which there is no
actual vibe but anyway um they claim to stand the
word of god but until it contradicts the world's wisdom
you know or you know until it means make your real
stand on something they just don't do it or until it goes against the mainstream
doctrines um okay very few really stand to speak
the truth in love and that love that truth in love is is a love that warns of
the effects of sin yeah that love that preaches on sin
because because the the bible god you're the preacher
should be loving enough to be telling you not to not you know
telling you about what the consequences of certain sins
even if that offends half of the the church
love that warns people warns people warns the flock of reprobate predators
okay and and the more you understand the more you see this the more you see
what a risk what a danger they are and i'll tell you what i'm
you know for me i find it hard enough like you know you take your kids to a
church you don't even know you don't know
you don't know what's going on with half the people in that church you don't want
them out your sight you know and i would say that as well
if you're taking your kids to to you know to what what a church where
they don't believe the rep rate doctor where they think everyone bring in
everyone they don't they've got no radar for it
at all yeah and then it's just like yeah off you go
you know and it's like you're upstairs having a chat there's basements things
like that and you don't know where your kids are
like i think you know no offense to people here like i think think about
that because i think that's nuts yeah because
well you don't you don't know any of those people in that church yeah
you know we don't know each other that well but you know i'm pretty sure about
everyone in here you know but but we should you know there are kids and
love will be warning of that and being ready to kick people out and if in doubt
get out you know because because it is this is
that's a big thing these people are predators yeah
and they are everywhere everywhere in this country love that calls out the
popular false prophets yeah call them out tell them tell them
what they you know tell people who they are what they are we we see
that amongst churches and pastors we love and they're doing
that and and praise god that they do that
um love that means taking your brother or sister to one side awarding them the
results of their sin you know it's not just the preacher is
it it's that love amongst each other to do that to help each other
to to to speak the truth to each other you know not just oh well i don't
like the love of yourself is i don't really want them to not like me and
maybe not say that yeah yeah i'm not saying just call out everyone on
everything but but obviously you need to be discerning with that but love that
wants to help each other love that calls out false doctrine love
that calls out full structure no matter how unpopular you might get
right a good church believes that god's word is pure okay proverbs 35
6 says every word of god is pure he is a shield unto them that put their trust
in him add thou not unto his words lest he
reprove thee and thou be found a liar and and
sadly most of these churches sadly in this country
they don't really think it's pure i don't think because they just pick and
choose they pick and choose and and it's not a pick and mix um okay
it's pure imagine you didn't have faith in it imagine you didn't about i don't
know imagine we were christians we were saved but we didn't really have that
much faith in it imagine how hard it would be
how hard is it for these people that just i i know a lot of them were
unsaved but there are some say christians there use false bibles you
pick and choose which one i mean wow i just can't even imagine living
like that it made me think when a few years ago i did um i studied nutrition
for a couple of years yeah and it was really frustrating because
there is no like set way so they had all these different theories and even like
they kind of have this textbook these main textbooks they give you
but they'll just be saying oh research this research that everyone's coming up
with different ideas different things and you see it everyone's got their own
ideas and this is good for you this isn't this how
you should eat this is how you shouldn't eat this is what you should do
this is what you shouldn't do and for me like that's really frustrating when you
don't have like just something that you could go right this is the truth this is
it this is that you know for us this is the
word of god we know exactly if it says it it means it yeah
um and we should be standing on the word of god a good church will stand on the
word of god and if we become a church we need to
stand on the word of god that's everyone in here
everyone in here um okay if there was only one place you're going to hear the
truth where should it be the house of god shouldn't it um turn
to first timothy three first timothy three
and verse 14 says these things right onto thee hoping to come unto thee
shortly but if i tarry long that thou mayest know
how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of god
which is the church of the living god the pillar and ground of the truth
okay we want it to be the pillar and ground of the truth here
and and when we become a church you know that's what we want people to
think it's a church that's why i'm getting the truth and that's from
everyone with everyone to everyone we're all grounded in this word okay so
faithfully preaching god's word is loving others isn't it we know that
trying to sound intelligent by questioning or criticizing the preserve
word of god is just loving yourself and i've heard
i've heard that with king james only churches as well where they start to
well yeah the translators here they should have really said this or
should have done that or oh well you know they didn't you know if
you know this word i was it he was talking i think one past
through it i think it was about the word baptism maybe uh or maybe there was one
with the word congregations trying to suggest that they were basically being
influenced by king james just come on you know you don't know a
thing you know they try to go oh maybe they could have translated or should
have translated it this no you don't know anything yeah what do you know
and it's just trying to lift up themselves all the time now we need to
trust trust this word of god um okay we need to preach the whole bible
second typically 316 says that we know the you know famous verse all scripture
is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for repro for doctrine
for reproof for correction for instruction in righteousness that's all
scripture um now the lord jesus christ spoke the truth in love
for the people when he called the scribes alone
just in in matthew 23 alone he's called the scribes and pharisees
hypocrites blind guides fools extortioners whited sepulchers
full of iniquity serpents a generation of vipers
okay anyone saying that the lord jesus christ isn't loving that was in love
okay and we're told to to we're told to speak the truth
in love okay now i'm not saying we just have to be here constantly throwing out
insults but that is love that is love and it's
not love just say oh well they're just a bit confused about oh you know
well they're just a bit off on on on salvation at that church but they're
good people you know that ain't love yeah that ain't
love for the people that are being that are being conned by that nonsense
okay so good church speaks truth to jesus christ being the only way the truth
of the life you know and and that that's where we go
out so the members go out of a good church and they speak the truth
in love of heaven hell and the glorious gospel we all know that we all go out
and we do that we do that as soul winners and we want to make sure that if
we become a church then that's what we do we're out there
just preaching the truth yeah um okay so how to become a good church by
working as a team number two through biblically qualified leadership number
three by working hard number four by building up the believers
number five by standing on the word of god okay last bit if you just read that
verse 16 of ephesians 4 it says from whom the whole body fitly
joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplyeth
according to the effectual work in the measures of every part make an increase
of the body unto the edifying of itself in love
okay so when a church follows god's way becomes a tight-knit team the result is
a church displaying the love of god and we've obviously talked about what that
love is yeah um first John 4 8 says that god is love
so what a great opportunity that we have here to make a difference in this evil
nation we have a great opportunity to become a church yeah
um so let's get united get working for the lord and
you know let's make a let's make this into a good church yeah um
amen so let's with that let's have a word of prayer
heavenly father thank you for um giving me the opportunity to preach your word
thank you for your word thank you for just that we could stand on that word
thank you for for showing us what what we need to do
to be a tight-knit unit to be that that one body please help us to all want that
help us to all strive for that help us to work hard for that
um help us to all just just just to live for you lord and live for your your
church that you've given us to be able to go out then and preach the
gospel to others and build them up too we just
ask all these things um and ask you also sorry to bless our day as well in jesus
name amen
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