Training, Stabilizing & Maturing the believer to reach the lost for Christ!
The local church should be designed to develop and equip Christians for a higher disciplined life in their personal walk and relationship before God and as a witness before the world. (Mathew 22:37-40)
1. To understand completely the investment the Father made in His Son for all of humanity. We truly are “Born Again”. (John 3:3)
2. To release the operations of the spiritual gifts given to the Church through the Holy Spirit.
3. To teach prayer: How to communicate and have intimacy with the Father.
4. To instruct how to overcome the dictates of the flesh through spiritual development & the renewing of the mind: including the tongue, habits, actions. (Romans)
5. To learn how to do warfare with Satan and his Kingdom. (Eph. 6)
1. The home: Our relationship with spouses and children.
2. The Job: How to establish good relationships & maintain a good witness
3. Business: To create good businesses by developing good biblical leadership
and integrity.
4. Developing good, stable, faithful, reliable, committed people: Living
witnesses of the Gospel.
5. Unity with the laws of the land as well as the Body of Christ.
6. Church Governments: (The pastoral epistles)
Take heed now; for the Lord hath chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it… And David said to Solomon his son. Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the Lord God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work of the service of the house of the Lord. And behold the courses of the priests and the Levites, even they shall be with thee for all the service of the House of God: and there shall be with thee for all manner of workmanship every willing skillful man, for any manner of service: also the princes and all the people will be wholly at thy commandment.(1 Chron. 28:10, 20, 21)
A. Television Ministry
B. 24 Hour Prayer Tower
C. Extensive Bible School for equipping the saints.
D. Music Ministry: To develop Psalmists and anointed singers and musicians
training in praise and worship and the Word as well as musical excellence.
E. Healing Center: All forms of healing including demonic deliverance
F. Home Bible Fellowships
G. Targeted Support Groups (ie. Parenting, marriage, finances)
H. Food Bank Ministry
I. Pre-School/Daycare Center
J. Missions: To train and support true Ministers of the Word and get results
1. The Involvement
Hab. 2:2-3 “And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run who reads it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
A. Everybody got involved. (Acts 2:41-47)
B. God is the one who puts vision in a leader’s heart. Neh. 2:12)
C. When God’s hand is upon it, it then becomes a team effort. (Neh. 2:18)
D. God will prosper us. (Neh. 2:20)
2. The Direction
A. The gates first must be repaired: Church governments and authority.
B. Leadership got into unity for the work through prayer and the word.
(Neh. 4:16)
3. The Opposition (what to expect from the enemy)
A. It is to be expected:
1. Verbal abuse against leadership.
2. Verbal abuse against the established work in progress
-Because of Jerusalem’s previous history of failure,
“It will fail again”.
3. The bondage of their previous debt.
4. Rumors by hired prophets.
5. Spies among the leadership from the enemy.
6. Internal dissension.
-“asking for too much commitment.”
4. The Outcome
A. In the end the enemy saw God’s hand and the vision.
B. See (Neh. 6 & 7)