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1 March 18, 2007 Pastor Greg Creasy A Disciple has a. Key verses: A Disciple. Key verses: A Disciple is. Key verses: 5945 E. Pea Ridge Road Huntington, WV *** prbc@wvdsl.net Practical Application: 1. Pray for God to guide your spiritual growth and participation in His church. 2. Take some time this week and list your places of involvement in the church. Then, pray for God to reveal the places HE NEEDS you to become involved. 3. Determine to focus on the three aspects of CORE...Worship, Study, Service. How are you doing at a balance of all three? 4. Look through the list of Sunday School classes on the back and plan to attend one this coming week if you are not already involved. Let this Easter season be the time you start attending a class. 5. Talk with your family and friends about your level of service in the church. Be involved where you think God can use you the most. 6. Delight in the opportunities that God has given to you...to be used for His glory!

2 What are we missing? Is God calling you to be involved in starting a new Sunday School class? We have needs in the following areas: College Age Class Teacher New Adult Class Teacher NEED Teachers in Preschool Classes Follow God s call and get involved today! Ministry Involvement Forms Look through the Ministry Involvement Sheet that is provided in the bulletin. If you have filled one of these out already, please submit any changes that you might observe. If you have not filled one of these out, please take time this week to see where you might become involved in the ministry and service of Pea Ridge Baptist. Return your completed forms to the church office. Not a Member of Pea Ridge? Pray that God will lead you to make the right decision about becoming a member of this congregation. You will have more opportunities to serve and be involved in the ministry of this church as a member and you will become part of this specific family of God. You can become a member in three ways: 1. By your profession of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and following in obedience of baptism. 2. By transferring your membership to this church from another church. 3. By statement of Christian experience...having made a profession of faith and been baptized already. Come forward at the end of the service or talk with Pastor Greg today!

3 Being in the Church of Jesus Christ Ephesians 4: Ephesians 4: (NIV) Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. A Disciple has a SOLID FOUNDATION Ephesians 4:

4 Philippians 1:27 (NIV) Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending as one man for the faith of the gospel Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV) "Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

5 Psalm 1:1-3 (NIV) Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. A Disciple GROWS UP IN JESUS CHRIST Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV) so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

6 Ephesians 4:13 (NIV) until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. A Disciple is PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST 1 Corinthians 12:12, 27 (NIV) The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

7 SO WHAT? I believe God want us to experience the JOY of being part of the church. I believe God CAN and WILL use you to help build His kingdom in the Pea Ridge community.

8 I believe God has GIFTED EACH ONE OF US to be part of the work. I believe God DESIRES to reveal more of Himself to you on a daily basis. I believe God WILL BE glorified in all we do for Him!

9 Being in the Church of Jesus Christ Ephesians 4: