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TITLE: What do you Offer?

PROPOSITION: The church is competing with many distractions.

QUESTION: What?

KEY WORD: Distractions

Introduction:

  1. We are a mobile society – move, transfer, relocate

  2. What do you look for in a church?

  3. Survey of those who recently moved and were looking for a church home. “What do you look for as you visit different churches?”

 

What many are looking for

  1. Social Activities – dinners, showers, parties

  2. Social Contacts – all the social elite go there

  3. Day care – service for working parents with small children

  4. Biggest in town – stay on fringe, fewer demands, less involvement

  5. Entertainment – plays, special music,

  6. Something for youth – ball teams, parties, activities

  7. A good preacher – entertains, not boring

 

What Christ Offers

  1. Freedom from sin – John 1 – Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.

  2. A way of life – John 10:10 – abundant life

  3. Citizenship in the Kingdom

  4. Home in heaven – John 14 – I go to prepare a place for you

 

What should I look for?

  1. The church Jesus built

  2. Like minded souls

  3. People content to be Christians



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