There are two subjects you try to avoid with your kids. Money and sex. You can’t avoid them because if you don’t talk about them with them someone else will. So here at church we don’t want to avoid talking about money. You might have a perception of churches that all they want it your money well. Sorry about that but this is the first time we have spoken about money in the 3 years I have been here.

 

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Elders – the under shepherds
They do Shepherding of God’s flock. They have a responsibility to Jesus for the church.

This can be summed up under 4 headings:-

Teaching –In the list of qualifications in 1 Timothy 5 there is one skill required ie able to teach. As shepherds they are to feed the flock. This involves knowing the Bible, understanding it and clearly teaching it.

Protect – Acts 20:28 says Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock. They are to protect the flock from false teachers.

 Caring – James 5:14 says:- Is anyone sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over them…

They are to care for the church. They are to lose sleep over the people under their care as a father or mother does for their children.

 Managing – In Titus 1:7 they are called overseers and so are to provide oversight. Supervise. They are not only to know what is going on in the life of the church but lead and direct what is going on. Making sure there is direction, systems, policies, procedures for church life.

 These are all to be done with an attitude SERVING like Jesus who laid down his life for his sheep.

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Message preached by Andrew Carruthers of Salt Baptist church in Perigean.

In Matt 6:9-13 & Luke 11:2-4 we see recorded what is commonly referred to as the Lords prayer. I may suggest a better description is the disciples prayer. Because in these passages jesus entrusts to his disciples a pattern of prayer. Pray in this manner he instructs them.

Matt 6:7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

Here in John 17 we have the real ‘Lords prayer’, what did Jesus pray.

Bible Passages;
John 17

 

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Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. Small tiles or fragments of pottery or of colored glass or clear glass backed with metal foils are used to create a pattern or picture. The church is similar to a mosaic. It is made up of people who are ‘broken’ who when put together by God’s grace and begin to serve each other make a wonderfully beautiful picture of what Christ is like.

Bible References;
Romans 12
Romans 6-8
Eph 4:7
1 Peter 4:10
1 Corinthians 12:7

 

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Church is a local expression of that universal eternal reality. The church gathered is a visible expression of the invisible eternal reality.

The Bible assumes people ‘in Jesus’ gather together. It’s what people did straight away after they became Christians as we see from Acts 2. They met together daily. Hebrews 10:25 says:- Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing. Also to keep the ‘one another’ commands that are given in the New Testament you must be together.

Bonhoeffer says:- “Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate”

 

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When we repent and commit to live for Jesus we become members of the ‘body of Christ.’ The Lakeshore Church is the local expression of this global ‘body of Christ’. We are all members of this body, and we all play a part. In every healthy body there are certain things that need to happen, and as a church we look to the Bible to learn about them. In this teaching series we will address some of the key issues of body life.

• The church,what’s the body? - November 1, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  The Bible assumes people ‘in Jesus’ gather together. It’s what people did straight away after they became Christians as we see from Acts 2. They met together daily. Hebrews 10:25 says:- Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing. Also to keep the ‘one another’ commands that are given in the New Testament you must be together.

• BODY LIFE SERIES - November 1, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  When we repent and commit to live for Jesus we become members of the ‘body of Christ.’ The Lakeshore Church is the local expression of this global ‘body of Christ’. We are all members of this body, and we all play a part. In every healthy body there are certain things that need to happen, and as a church we look to the Bible to learn about them. In this teaching series we will address some of the key issues of body life.

• Loving one another - November 8, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  
• Loving The World - November 15, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  Jesus has left ‘photos’ of himself in the world. You and me. By what we say and do we show to those around us Jesus wants to be friends with those who don’t yet know him. We are the way by God’s Spirit by which others experience God’s love. You can show them a love to meet their felt NEEDS that comes from the source of love. GOD. A love that is expressed to meet their greatest NEED. Jesus death for their forgiveness.

• Serving One Another - November 22, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  Mosaic is the art of decoration with small pieces of colored glass, stone or other material. Small tiles or fragments of pottery or of colored glass or clear glass backed with metal foils are used to create a pattern or picture. The church is similar to a mosaic. It is made up of people who are ‘broken’ who when put together by God’s grace and begin to serve each other make a wonderfully beautiful picture of what Christ is like.

• The Real Lords Prayer - November 29, 2009 - guest
  

  In Matt 6:9-13 & Luke 11:2-4 we see recorded what is commonly referred to as the Lords prayer. I may suggest a better description is the disciples prayer. Because in these passages jesus entrusts to his disciples a pattern of prayer. Pray in this manner he instructs them. Matt 6:7 “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. 8 Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. 9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Here in John 17 we have the real ‘Lords prayer’, what did Jesus pray.

• Eldership - December 6, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  Elders – the under shepherds They do Shepherding of God’s flock. They have a responsibility to Jesus for the church. This can be summed up under 4 headings:- Teaching – In the list of qualifications in 1 Timothy 5 there is one skill required ie able to teach. As shepherds they are to feed the flock. This involves knowing the Bible, understanding it and clearly teaching it.

• Giving - December 20, 2009 - l-t-hopper
  

  There are two subjects you try to avoid with your kids. Money and sex. You can’t avoid them because if you don’t talk about them with them someone else will. So here at church we don’t want to avoid talking about money. You might have a perception of churches that all they want it your money well. Sorry about that but this is the first time we have spoken about money in the 3 years I have been here.