What Makes a “church” THE Church | First Tuesday

1 Timothy 2:1-6

FACT: Not every “church” is part of .

📖 1 Timothy 3:14-15 (NLT) I am writing these things to you now, even though I hope to be with you soon, 15 so that if I am delayed, you will know how people must conduct themselves in the household of God. This is THE church of the living God, which is the pillar and foundation of the truth.

A church remains THE CHURCH when it:

1. Commits to a of .

📖 1 Timothy 2:1 (ESV) First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,

Prayer in the book of ACTS:
What happened after the church prayed?

1. Pentecost (1:14) – Holy Spirit fills all of them.
2. (2x!) Earthquake and Evangelism (4:31; 16:25)
3. Resurrection (9:40)
4. Miraculous Release (12:5)
5. Healing (28:8)

A church remains THE CHURCH when it:

2. to see people .

📖 1 Timothy 2:1b (ESV)  “(Prayers must) be made for all people, 2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. 3 This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

BOOK OF ACTS: What did the church pray for?

1. Its leaders (1:24; 6:6; 14:23*)
2. The manifestation of the Holy Spirit (8:15)
3. Sinners to Repent (8:24; 26:29)
4. Missions (13:3) (with fasting)
5. Healing (9:40; 28:8)

We pray for our and we ask for the so that we might to our community.

📖 1 Timothy 2:3-4 (ESV) This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

A church remains THE CHURCH when it:

3.   on the of the Gospel.

📖 1 Timothy 2:5-6 (ESV) For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.

A church remains THE CHURCH when it:

4. to the way.

📖 1 Timothy 2:8-10 (ESV) I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire, 10 but with what is proper for women who profess godliness—with good works.

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