The third goal was to increase the knowledge of fellowship with God through Bible meditation and prayer among the members of the church through the sermon series. The fourth goal was to equip the members of the church to practice communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer through the sermon series. The fourth goal was to equip the members of the church to practice communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer, including through the sermon series.
Christians need to practice joyful fellowship with God every day in order to walk by the Spirit and not succumb to the desires of the flesh. But communion with God is clearly enjoyed with each person in the Trinity, according to Owen. The biblical mandate to practice communion with God through biblical meditation and prayer was a clear example of Puritan teaching and practice.
In order to provide them with training, two of the six sermons were primarily aimed at equipping the practice of communion members with God. The communion with God inventory was written for use before and after preaching a series of sermons. The tenth week of the project involved the implementation of a communion with God inventory with fourteen statements to survey the church membership.
By the end of the week, 42 of the 51 church members responded to the Communion with God Inventory. Week 18 was the last week of the project and involved taking the Communion Inventory and tabulating the results.
CONCLUSION
A t-test for dependent samples was performed to compare total data between the two administrations of the Communion with God Inventory. This reveals that the congregation was greatly affected by the project as they learned to understand and practice communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer. He equipped church members to practice communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer.
The first goal was to develop a six-week sermon series on fellowship with God through Bible meditation and prayer. The second objective was to assess the congregation's knowledge and practice of communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer. The fourth goal went beyond mere knowledge and sought to equip the members to practice fellowship with God through Bible meditation and prayer through the sermon series.
The second goal was accomplished through the creation and administration of the Communion with God Inventory to measure growth in both doctrinal knowledge and the practice of communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer. The third purpose was accomplished by giving a series of sermons where I tried to increase each member's knowledge of communion with God. My expectations were met as there was a significant increase in agreement between the two administrations of the Communion Inventory.
The congregation seems to have grown in understanding of the concept of communion with God. As the understanding of communion with God through biblical meditation and prayer among church members has clearly improved, the third goal of this project has also been achieved. Again, t-tests on several statements from the communion with God inventory showed significant changes on several important points.
It appears that the church members grew in their practice of fellowship with God through Bible meditation. As the practice of communion with God through Bible meditation and prayer improved among church members, this fourth goal of the project was also achieved.
Would Do Differently
Communion with God Made Possible”
What if God made it possible for His beloved people to have intimate fellowship with Him, whereby they would know Him, love Him, enjoy Him, trust Him, take strength in Him, and learn to be like Him. And what if God provided certain means (ways, methods) for His people to regularly enjoy fellowship with Him. This sermon series seeks not only to combat this ignorance, but also to educate Christians on how to practice ongoing, intimate fellowship with God.
The purpose of this series is to "equip you to practice fellowship with God through the God-given means of Bible meditation and prayer." Fellowship with God is receiving God's loving communication with us as we joyfully respond through our union with Jesus.” Our communion... with God consists of his communication of himself to us, with our return to him of what he desires and accepts, arising from the unity we have with him in Jesus Christ. ".
First, it includes God's loving expression of himself to us (which is his revelation of himself to us and his gracious willingness to engage us in intimate relationship). And it is like the Christian's fellowship with God, but fellowship with God is something much more: it is the Maker himself who willingly condescends in such a way that he makes himself known and enjoyable to people who are then allowed to associate with love to respond to him, relationship and praise. 2 God has made it possible for believers to have a continuous, intimate relationship with him through Christ.
That is the point of this series and this project: that God has provided the means for believers to have soul-satisfying, life-changing fellowship with Him every day. As saplings, they are connected to the vine and must constantly recognize their need for the vine in order to have life and growth. Example: Spiritual fruitfulness (or life transformation) - if a Christian is to grow, experience changes in life and become more and more holy in deeds and words, then he must remain in the Vine.
As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me." Every Christian is totally dependent on Jesus the Vine, every day, to accomplish what God intends for them – which is to have transformed lives for his glory.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life
The "word" that Jesus had spoken to them was undoubtedly the teaching of his gospel.
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And the most important commandments Jesus tells, which sum up all his other commandments, are love of God (v. 9) and love of others (v. 12, especially brothers and sisters in Christ). Here Christ Jesus prays to the Father God and describes the unspeakable gift of eternal life now being given to his followers. In striving for the glory of God (v. 1), Jesus tells that his Father “has given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom [the Father] has given him” (v. 2).
Christ's authority to save sinners comes directly from his Father in Heaven, and the nature of his authority is to give eternal life to all who belong to the Father as it is given to Jesus the Son. So Father God gives authority to Jesus, his Son, to give eternal life to all who belong to the Father - his chosen and beloved children whom he sent Jesus to save. But Christ's description of eternal life in verse 3 is what is so important about this message.
Instead, eternal life (according to Jesus) involves a relationship with God that a Christian must enjoy continuously as soon as he believes in Jesus Christ. Jesus says there] “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath eternal life. The reason that eternal life is enjoyed now is that Jesus equates eternal life with the knowledge of God, something that Christians (in part) already have according to his word of salvation.
Understand, to have eternal life is to know God with the loving intimacy that Jesus gave to the believer as a gift. Eternal life is experienced now because the believer knows God now, before the coming of all those future, heavenly blessings. Jesus, the authoritative Son of God, gives eternal life to God's people, and that eternal life includes an intimate, dependent relationship of love and joy with God.
Like little children clinging to a parent's hand, we must appreciate our smallness in light of God's greatness and recognize our need to trust Him in every way. Prayer is the joyful response of those who have received God's gracious communication: he initiates the relationship with his word, and we respond in prayer.
The Necessity of Daily Communion”
16, Paul writes that if Christians "walk by the Spirit" they "will not gratify the desires of the flesh." 22–23: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." And the way Christians resist the desires of the flesh and bear the fruit of the Spirit is by walking in the Spirit.
2: "Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law or by hearing with faith?". So they must continue with the Spirit by constantly looking at the Word of the gospel with faith. Christians walk by the Spirit through an ongoing faith in Jesus Christ that is informed by God's Word and vitally connected to intimate prayer.
Therefore, Christians must practice joyful fellowship with God every day in order to walk in the Spirit and not succumb to the desires of the flesh. My friends, you cannot "walk in the Spirit" if you don't have the Spirit, and the only way to have the Spirit is through faith in Jesus. Have you received the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?”
2 Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of law or by hearing in faith? 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. We must "walk by the Spirit" so as not to satisfy the desires of the flesh.
We must walk according to the Spirit so that we do not gratify the desires of the flesh. My friends, our most powerful weapon is to engage the Holy Spirit, and we engage the Spirit of God when we communicate with God.
