July 27, 2025 Messages Notes

The Marks of a Healthy Church

1 Thessalonians 1

📖 1 Thessalonians 1:2 ESV We give thanks to God always for all of you, constantly mentioning you in our prayers…

A healthy church isn’t —
it’s being .

1. A healthy Church is filled with people.

📖 1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

from faith.
rooted in love.
because of our hope.

A healthy church has people who , themselves, and for the sake of the

2. A healthy Church is filled with people people become .

📖 1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

📖 Romans 8:28 -29 ESV And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.

📖 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8 ESV so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. 8 For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.

God works in the things for my , to Christ and impact .

3. A healthy Church is filled with people go of the things in the .

📖 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10 ESV For they themselves report concerning us the kind of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.