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How to Start and Run a Local Church |
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Some congregations are born out of the need to fulfill a certain kind of outreach and their mission is clearly cut out for them from the moment they
begin. Others gradually grow in their outreach efforts. If your congregation is already pressing members to their limits with various kinds of service, may God bless and guide you, but
please do not let this section cause you to start a lot of new projects that nobody has time to complete. On the other hand, if your congregation is not doing much to help others, its
members ought to realize that they will be judged by what they do (1Corinthians 3:11-15; 4:5; 2Corinthians 5:10), and encourage each other to take action in their lives.
This author has heard of many people who said they felt foolish when they first started trying to teach others about God, Jesus or the Bible. They
realized that they made a lot of mistakes. But it is that way when we start most jobs in life—and as we do them we get better at them. Believers who have gone through years of their
life teaching others about God whenever practical often wonder about how they could live their life any other way. |
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