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+ | =====Church Challenge 2012===== | ||
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+ | From Common Christian Faith: Wiki | ||
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+ | **Biblical Significance** | ||
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+ | ====Church Challenge 2012==== | ||
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+ | Find out what your Church really teaches, where all the money goes, what your pastors actually believe and what the leaders intend for you Spiritually at your Church fellowship | ||
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+ | **What is the Church Challenge 2012?** | ||
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+ | It will be a short question and answer document regarding the three areas of -- **Church Governing Practices: | ||
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+ | **Church Fellowship Practices: | ||
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+ | **Biblical Church Doctrines: | ||
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+ | By sampling the practices and beliefs of your Church pastors, staff and leadership to understand their managerial intentions and Biblical knowledge of Christianity, | ||
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+ | Much of the information for the coming 2012 Church Challenge can be found in the current document "Wiki - Basic Christian" | ||
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+ | As Christians we have the awesome privilege to participate (Philippians 2:12) in our own salvation (maturity) process and likewise we also have the equally awesome responsibility to oversee that the temporal, corporate assembly [Church fellowship] portion of our Spiritual sanctification process is done Biblically, sufficiently and correctly. | ||
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+ | Use the time between now and this Fall to download the Wiki - Basic Christian material, study it and get a small group from your Church fellowship together to get acquainted with the material, especially include anyone who is a large financial donor to the Church. | ||
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+ | Also use the time to try to determine the financial stability of the Church fellowship i.e. what assets and land does it own, how many years of financial reserves does the fellowship maintain and what loans and legal financial obligations does it have if any. Begin to present the material along with your input or the group' | ||
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+ | It will also go a long way in assisting to prepare the Church fellowship for any personal changes or pastoral changes that could occur within the fellowship so that if any changes do occur the fellowship body can be more readily prepared for change in a positive direction and not as susceptible to the current emergent types of changes that are taking advantage of uniformed fellowships and are deliberately changing and hindering the character, content and commitment of the true Christian Church. | ||
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+ | God bless everyone,\\ | ||
+ | David Anson Brown | ||
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