SERMONS ON BACK TO CHURCH
Our sermon ideas on going Back to Church will help you preach a powerful message. Focus on foundational topics like the church, small groups, discipleship, and evangelism. Prepare your messages on going back to church with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
Building an Acts 2 Church (2 of 6)
by Frank Damazio
Becoming the church God has in mind necessitates a revelation of the church Christ is building as revealed in the scriptures. In Scripture, God clearly reveals the church He desires for us to build. We must raise our passion level for the church, raise our commitment level, and unite our hearts to fulfill mission. Attending church is good for your health. Dr. George W. Comstock, a Johns Hopkins University medical researcher studied the relationship between church attendance and health. In his article he stated that the risk of fatal heart diseases is almost twice as high for the non-church-goer than for men who attend...
Straight Talk (2 of 4)
by James Merritt
A famous book was written many years ago with the title, You Can't Go Home Again. The first time I saw that book, I thought to myself, ''Of course you can go home again - anytime you want to!'' Then I realized what that author meant. Once you leave the place you call ''home,'' particularly if you are gone a good period of time, you can't go home again, because home is not the same. About a year ago, my oldest brother and I drove up to our home where we grew up in Hall County. We grew up in different places and as we went around the county and the towns where we grew up, it was not the same, because so much had...
You Were Made for This! - Topical Sermon on Small Groups
by Brian Fletcher
Just as Tom Hanks in the movie Cast Away, is isolated on a deserted island, he has no one to relate to, he finally creates someone out of a volleyball. His friend is Wilson. He could not stand to be alone. But that's because he was not created to be alone, he was created for relationships. Tom Hanks that is, not the volleyball. 1. Made in the image of God means we were created for relationships - Genesis 1:26-27 God is Triune: The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Three persons in one God. They are in perfect unity and they relate to one another perfectly. One does not exist without the other. So, part of the image of...
Built to Last (3 of 3)
by Kerry Shook
Well, Woodlands Church, we're concluding the series this weekend that we've been in the last several weeks that we're calling Coming Home; and today we're going to turn our focus toward building a home that lasts. I'm not talking about a house. A lot of people live in nice houses, but they're not homes. Behind the beautiful exterior of a house many times there's brokenness and bitterness and a family that's fractured. So how do you really build a home that lasts? How do you turn a house into a home that lasts? Well, what you need is what I call a coming-home kind of miracle. What you need is a life-changing, relationship-changing...
Walking in Fellowship (7 of 8)
by Jeff Strite
Once upon a time (as all good stories begin), a group of people agreed that they should spend each Sunday in the presence of one another. Many were not satisfied with the 6 or 8 hours each week, but also came together each Saturday for several more hours of fellowship.They did not count the minutes past sixty. Rather, with great conviction they said, ''We've come for a purpose and will not leave until it has been accomplished - even if it takes all day.'' Then at the end of the day, they would cheerfully pledge to return next week. Their commitment was thing of which to marvel, as it was not a passing fancy...
The Church in Action - Part 1 (5 of 7)
by Lenny Ports
How many of you were here last week? What a blessing it was to sit under the ministry of Pastor Phil Cappuccio! We believe that God moved in miraculous ways and that lives were forever changed. You see when the Holy Spirit comes in power like He did last week, what you may not understand now will become clearer and clearer with each passing day. You see, many times when the PROPHET comes into the house, and brings a word from God, and the Holy Spirit begins to move in power, it is the role of the pastor-teacher to bring clarity to things scripturally. Let me address those who received a ''word'' from God. It...
Gospel-Centered Discipleship (6 of 8)
by Jonathan McLeod
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But turning and seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, ''Get behind me, Satan! For you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man.'' And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them, ''If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose...
The Value of Discipleship (3 of 6)
by Michael Romero
I am enjoying the vision that God has given us as a church. I have gone deep into Gods word and found absolute pleasure in discovering the reason why we hold the value of Biblical Authority so high. Through prayer I have found a never-ending connection to our God and savior and I have found a strength that cannot be measured. Knowing that our church will value prayer and Biblical Authority in order that we might abide in Christ is something that thrills and excites me. These two values cannot be forgotten because they are the foundation of all other values we will be studying. Now today we are going to start focusing...
Becoming a Missional Church
by Jerry Watts
Billy Graham is a name most everyone knows. Today, his name carries a note of authority, authenticity, and integrity. What you may not know or do not remember is that Dr. Graham was not always popular. The story is told about him being scheduled for a meeting in one community and one of the ''highly educated'' pastors in that community was heard to say, ''He'd set our churches back 20 years.'' When Dr. Graham heard this, his comment was, ''If I set the church back 20 years, I have missed my mark! I desire to set it back 2000'' years!'' In our modern day, an argument can be made that no one has influenced more people toward...
Shepherd and Lead the Church
by Brian Fletcher
Taking on leadership is not easy. Sometimes we want to do it but sometimes we don't. We may not feel adequate, or we may not be interested in the people we've been called to lead. But the truth is, as leaders of a church we are called to shepherd and lead God's people. And this is not only a significant responsibility but also a great honor. In this passage we read about Peter ''exhorting'' the elders and leaders of the churches in the dispersion to take up the mantle of leadership and shepherd the people in their churches. But Peter also makes sure they know that there is a godly ''attitude'' that goes...
The Kind of Church to Join (4 of 15)
by Robert Dawson
I remember when Kristal and I moved to North Carolina just a few months after we were married; we had an easier time finding jobs than we did finding a church. For us, like so many who move into an area or become a Christian and start looking for a church home, the task is not an easy one and the decision is at best difficult and important. Today, here in the southeastern United States, with the ability to drive we are not bound by one choice or a couple of choices, there are a number of church's that we could possibly attend. What type of church should we join? What type of church should we look for? (In answering those...
The Love-Filled Church (4 of 4)
by Lenny Ports
The New Testament church began on the Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out on the 120 in the upper room waiting for the ''promise of the Father.'' Despite what some modern-day theologians and religious leaders want you to believe, the TRUTH is that the church was founded in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Period. Too many of us have seen abuses or misuses of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, true, but you can't ''throw the baby out with the bath water.'' Here at Encounter, we desire a PURE, AUTHENTIC, and POWERFUL move of the Holy Spirit. What does that look like? First, it looks like Jesus. The...
I Want You Back
by M. Jolaine Szymkowiak
A new friend made this statement shortly before I left on a trip, "I want you back, I want you back." She and I had just become acquainted. I understood the longing in her voice. She had previously remarked on one of my visits with her that it seemed whenever she got a new friend, they either died or moved away. Nothing was to happen to me, her new friend, on this trip. I was to come back and to her as well. As I walked back to my own apartment, this revelation hit me – God wants a lot of us back. His words are written time and again – "if only you will come back, I will do great things." If only you will, I will. "Why do my...
God's Blessing Found Only in the Church (9 of 44)
by Patrick Edwards
Though it may be cliché to say, one of the foundation truths of all human interaction and relationship is that communication is key. Husbands and wives certainly know this to be true. It's amazing how a non-issue can become a massive, nuclear argument simply because of a communication breakdown. Whether it's using the wrong word or just not fully sharing, a failure to communicate can have devastating effects. Communication is also pivotal in any sort of organization or business. While a leader may not communicate everything to his/her subordinates it is important nevertheless to cast a clear vision, to provide...
Get Back Up!
by Daniel Rodgers
Earlier this week, Dr. Orman Norwood forwarded a video clip to me. It was about Nick Vujicic, a man with no arms and legs. In the film, Nick spoke to a crowd of young people about the importance of getting back up when you fall down. In order to demonstrate his point, Nick slowly lowered himself to the floor and then, with some labor, got back up on his torso. Then he said, "It's not how many times you fall that is important, it is how you finish." Here is a man with no arms and legs, demonstrating how, even a person with his disabilities, can get back up after having fallen down. Nick presents to us an inspirational...
Bringing Back the Joy
by Joe Alain
David messed up big time! The king of Israel, the spiritual leader of the nation, the man whom God said had a heart after Him, in a season of weakness fell to temptation. He committed adultery with Bathsheba and then to cover his tracks, he had her husband Urriah killed. David’s story and many others like his in the Bible should dispel the myth once and for all that Christians are perfect. Godly people do some ungodly things. And even though we have forgiveness with God, we still pay the consequences of sin. So not surprisingly, David had lost the joy of God’s salvation. How could he not! Setting: This Psalm...
How to Get Back to God
by William Wyne
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge. Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow...
