June: Christian Education Month
Responsible Ministry: Christian Becoming Ministry
Theme: Grow Toward Christian Maturity
Sermon Series: Grow Toward Christian Maturity
Texts: Hebrews 5:12-14; John 17:3; 2 Peter 3:18
Sermon #1: Grow Toward Christian Maturity Through Spiritual Formation
Text: Hebrews 5:12-14
SCI: Christians Start as Babes in Christ, But Christians Shouldn’t Stay Babes in Christ
Billboard: Don’t Stop Growing Through Spiritual Formation!
Sermon #2: Grow Toward Christian Maturity Through Eternal Life
Text: John 17:3
SCI: Eternal Life Doesn’t Exclude Growth—Eternal Life Includes Growth
Billboard: Don’t Stop Including Christian Growth!
Sermon #3: Grow Toward Christian Maturity Through Grace and Knowledge
Text: 2 Peter 3:18
SCI: We Should Never Stop Growing In Christ — We Should Always Keep Growing In Christ
Billboard: Don’t Stop Growing In Christ!
Sermon #4: In View of God’s Mercies Rev. Lyle Lee (Guest Speaker)
Text: Romans 12:1
SCI: N/A
Billboard: N/A
Sermon #5: Grow Toward Christian Maturity Through Suffering
Text: Romans 5:3-4
SCI: Suffering Can Reveal and Produce Character
Billboard: Grow Through Suffering!
Each Sermon Central Idea is developed in the form of an indicative.
Each Billboard is developed in the form of an imperative.
Sermon Series Overview and Outline
Prepared by Pastor Trevor Crenshaw for June 2, 2024 – June 31, 2024
Helpful Quotes
“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.” – John Stott
“It is fashionable in some academic circles to exercise scholarly criticism of the Bible. In so doing, scholars place themselves above the Bible and seek to correct it. If indeed the Bible is the Word of God, nothing could be more arrogant. It is God who corrects us; we don’t correct Him. We do not stand over God but under Him.” – R.C. Sproul
“The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.” – Martin Luther
“There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a child’s box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience.” – Oswald Chambers
“If people can take time knowing the facts about their favorite celebrities, surely they can allocate portions of their life in knowing more about God through the Bible.” – Tom Norman
“The Bible gives us our orientation to God and the baseline for processing the drama each day brings. It challenges our motivations and gives us the deep wisdom it takes to function as the body of Christ.” – Brian Hardin
“When we give our lives to Christ, our spirits are reborn but we still need to work on our souls and bodies. Our minds need to be renewed by The Word of God daily.” – Roni Adigun
“It is worth noting that we can hardly be obedient if we do not know what God demands of us; that is why it is so important to study the word of God continually.” – Clive Nicholson
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus’ miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” - Timothy J. Keller