Friends And Family Day

It’s All About Jesus

John 1:1-3 1   In the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2  He was in the beginning with God.

John 1:1-3 3   All things were made

through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Genesis 1:26-28 26  Then God said, “Let us make

man in our image, after our likeness.

Genesis 1:26-28 26  And let them have dominion

over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Genesis 1:26-28 27  So God created man in his

own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26-28 28  And God blessed them. And God

said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Matthew 16:18-19

18  And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 16:18-19

19  I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Romans 16:16 16   . . . All the churches of Christ

greet you.

JESUS• Builder• Foundation• Corner Stone• Head• Purchased

John 17:20-21 20  “I do not ask for these only,

but also for those who will believe in me through their word,

John 17:20-21 21   that they may all be one, just

as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

How did the early church under the inspired leadership of the Apostles organize and worship?

Organization

• Headquarters• Creed• Elders, Pastors/shepherds,

Bishops• Preachers, Teachers, Members

Acts 14:23 23  And when they had

appointed elders for them in every church, . . .

Worship• Communion

Acts 20:7 7   On the first day of the week,

when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Worship• Communion• Public Prayer

1 Timothy 2:8 8  I desire then that in every

place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Worship• Communion• Public Prayer• Singing praise to God.

Colossians 3:16 16  Let the word of Christ dwell in

you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Worship• Communion• Public Prayer• Singing praise to God.• Giving

1 Corinthians 16:1-2

1  Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do.

1 Corinthians 16:1-2

2  On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Worship• Communion• Public Prayer• Singing praise to God.• Giving• Reading Scripture

1 Timothy 4:13 13  Until I come, devote

yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

OUR RELATIONS

HIPJohn 15:9-15

John 15:9-159   As the Father has loved

me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.

John 15:9-1510   If you keep my

commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 15:9-1511  These things I have spoken to

you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. 12   “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:9-1513   Greater love has no one than

this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14  You are my friends if you do what I command you.

John 15:9-1515   No longer do I call you

servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

AN EXAMPLEOF FRIENDSHIP

Galatians 6:1-10

THE BASIS OF THIS

FRIENDSHIP

Galatians 3:26-28

26  for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27

 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Galatians 3:26-28

26  for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. 27

 For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

Galatians 3:26-28

28   There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 17:17 17   A friend loves at all times,

and a brother is born for adversity.