June 9, 2024

 Welcome from Brown Chapel/Avant, Mt. Pleasant & Shiloh

Prayer: Pastor Baggett

Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-2 & 6-7 - Let it then be your desire to be like God, as well-loved children; And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, as offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.  Have no part with such men.

Subject: Who Do You Want to Be Like?

• Don't be an imitation, not original.
• But we should be an imitator of God.
• Eleven times is the word imitator or imitation mentioned in the New Testament.
• Who is the role model in our lives? It should be Jesus.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:6-7 - And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit. So that you became an example to all those who have faith in Christ in Macedonia and Achaia.
• 1 Corinthians 11:1 - So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine. 
• Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 
• Matthew 5:45 - So that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.  
• We must be kind and compassionate to one another as Christ was to us.
• We must be role models for others in Christ. Living examples of Jesus Christ.
• We must have self-control.

Communion

Roll Call:

Pastor Baggett

Debra W.

Willie & Bonnie T.

Rev. I. Pelton

Thelma W.

Evelyn H.

Violet W.

Ginger R. 

Gena Lloyd

Rhonda L.

Closing Prayer: Pastor Baggett