Lesson Seven: “What Makes Church So Special?”

“The House Of God Is Indeed A Special Place To the People Of God!”

Hebrews 10:24-25

Introduction: Review and Completion of last week’s lesson entitled “What Has Happened To Me and Why Do I Now Need To Go To Church?”

I : Salvation Through Christ Jesus Produces Some New Things

    A: It Produces A New Birth and New Family Relationship
        - II Corinthians 5:17, John 1:11-13, John 3:3, 7, Psalm 100:3, John 10:14-15,
          Galatians 4:4-7, I John 3:1-3

    B: It Produces A New Need For Spiritual Growth
        - Matthew 4:4, I Peter 2:2-3, Colossians 1:9-10, Acts 2:42

    C: It Produces A New Place To Receive That Spiritual Nutrition
        - Psalm 122:1, Nehemiah 8:1-8, 17-18, Acts 2:46-47


II : So Why Do I Now Need to Go To Church?

    A: Because It Is God’s Place of Bible Teaching and Biblical Instruction for His People
        - Psalm 122:1, Matthew 16:18, Ephesians 5:25, Acts 1:8, Matthew 4:4,
          II Timothy 4:2, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 3:15, Romans 1:16, Jeremiah 10:21, Ezekiel
          44:23, Acts 2:41, Acts 2:46-47, Mark 16:15

    B: Because It Is God’s Place Of Refuge For The Weary
        - Psalm 73:1-17

    C: Because It Is God’s Place Of Fellowship And Source of Service For The Saints
        - Acts 11:19-26, Acts 1:8


Lesson: “What Makes The Church So Special?”

I : The Church Is Special Because It Is Special To God!
    - Ephesians 5:22-27

II : Because The Church Is So Special To God, It Ought To Be Special To You and Me as
     God’s Dear Children!
    - Psalm 26:8, Psalm 27:4-5, Hebrews 10:19-25, Matthew 16:18, Acts 2:44-47, Acts
      11:19-26 

III : Why Is It Not Special To Everybody?
    - Jeremiah 2:8, Jeremiah 12:10, Jeremiah 23:1-2, Jeremiah 3:12-15, Matthew 28:19-
      20, Matthew 16:18

Conclusion:
Child of God, it is important that you and I be active and faithfully participating members of the body of Christ, the local church, especially as we see all that is happening around us in our lost and dying world, and we can so clearly see that the day of our Lord’s soon return is closer today than ever before!

God’s house should be a special place to each of us because it was through the ministry of the local church that we have come to know Christ Jesus as our Saviour!

Child of God, never forget that the divine purpose and plan for God’s born again body of believers, the church and bride of Jesus Christ, is for each of us to be about our Father’s business, and this fact has never been more evident and more important to those around us as it is in our day today and as we can see the day of our Lord’s eminent return soon approaching!

May we, as born again members of the body of Christ, be glad when someone says unto us, let us go into the house of the LORD so that we might continue to learn more and become ever more willing to take the message of the Gospel to our Jerusalem, and to our Judea, and to our Samaria, and ultimately, to all the world!

God’s local church is indeed a special and divinely ordained place of assembly for those who are truly born again, baptized, Spirit filled believers who desire to be instructed in the things of God so that they might go out and reach the lost world around them!

May you and I be willing today to follow the admonition of our Lord God found in Hebrews 10:24-25 that says, “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”, why?? Because God’s church really is a special place!