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Teaching Notes: How The Saints Grow (Part Two)
Teaching Notes are Bible studies we taught before GraceLife Ministries began publishing articles online in 1995. Some were presented as sermons, others as group studies.
Our hope is that these older studies will be a blessing to you in your life and ministry. Please use them in any way God leads you.
These teaching notes are from a series about Church Growth taught over a period of several months.
[These notes are from a study from 40 years ago.]
Outline For Growth
A. Understanding of Growth: Defining Christian Growth
B. Direction for Growth: Goals of Christian growth
C. Training for Growth: What Christians Need to Grow
D. Assembling for Growth: What the Assembly is For
E. One-Anothering for Growth: How to Build Up Members of the Assembly
F. Structuring for Growth: How the Assembly Should be Managed
G. Ministering for Growth: How the Assembly Should Impact Its Community
Part Two: Goals of Christian Growth
- Ephesians 1:4 – to be holy and blameless .. ἅγιος (hagios), “separated to God, sacred, holy”
- Ephesians 1:4 – to be holy and blameless .. ἄμωμος (amomos), “unblemished, free from fault, blameless”
- Ephesians 1:11-12 – to be for God’s glory .. ἔπαινος (epainos), “praise, laudation, commendation”
- Ephesians 1:11-12 – to be for God’s glory .. δόξα (doxa), “honor, worship, glory, renown”
- Ephesians 1:17 – to know Christ better .. ἐπίγνωσις (epignósis), “full knowledge, perception, discernment”
- Ephesians 1:18-19 – to experience His hope and power .. ἐλπίς (elpis), “confidence, trust, expectation”
- Ephesians 1:18-19 – to experience His hope and power .. δύναμις (dunamis), “force, ability, mighty work”
- Ephesians 2:10 – to do good works .. ἔργον (ergon) .. “deeds, labor, toil, tasks”
- Ephesians 3:14-19 – to make a comfortable home for Christ and be filled with His love .. κατοικέω (katoikeó), “to dwell, to house permanently”
- Ephesians 3:14-19 – to make a comfortable home for Christ and be filled with His love .. καταλαμβάνω (katalambanó), “to lay hold of, to take eagerly, to seize, possess as one’s own”
- Ephesians 4:17-32 – to act according to your changed life .. ἀποτίθημι (apotithémi), “to put away, cast off, to put off, lay aside”
- Ephesians 4:17-32 – to act according to your changed life .. παλαιός ἄνθρωπος (palaios anthrópos), “old human, worn out human being” .. ἐνδύω τὸν καινὸν ἄνθρωπον κατὰ Θεὸν (enduō ton kainon anthrōpon kata Theon), “sink into, clothe, put on the new, fresh human being according to God” ..
- Ephesians 5:1-2 – to live a life of love .. μιμηταὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ (mimētai tou Theou), imitators, followers of God .. περιπατεῖτε ἐν ἀγάπῃ (peripatetic en agapē), live, conduct my life, in the sphere of “divine” love ..
- Ephesians 5:8-10 – to please God .. “For ye were sometimes darkness,” σκότος (skotos), darkness, obscurity .. “but now are ye light in the Lord,” φῶς (phōs), light, source of light, radiance .. Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord,” εὐάρεστον (euareston), well-pleasing, fully agreeable
- Ephesians 5:15-16 – to make the most of every opportunity .. “See then that ye walk circumspectly,” ἀκριβῶς (akribōs), carefully, perfectly, exactly, diligently” .. “Redeeming the time,”
- Ephesians 5:15-16 – to make the most of every opportunity .. “See then that ye walk circumspectly,” ἀκριβῶς (akribōs), carefully, perfectly, exactly, diligently” .. “Redeeming the time,” ἐξαγοραζόμενοι (exagorazomenoi), buy up, rescue from loss, ransom .. καιρόν (kairon), opportunity, occasion, season, time
- Ephesians 5:18-21 – to be controlled by God .. “be filled with the Spirit,” πληροῦσθε (plērousthe), to cause to abound, to fill up, fill to individual capacity, to furnish or supply liberally, be controlled by, diffuse throughout, to complete
- Ephesians 6:10-18 – to stand against Satan .. “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil,” πανοπλίαν (panoplian), all the weapons, full armor, complete armor, panoply of weapons .. στῆναι (histémi), stand one’s ground, to make a stand, stand firm, be established .. μεθοδείας (methodeias), methods, tricks, wiles, schemes, deceit, craftiness
Next Time
We will look at What Christians Need To Grow in the next part of our series.
[Thank you for reading these teaching notes from 40 years ago. My prayer is they will be a blessing to you and your life and ministry.]
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