North Side Sermons [greenwood, Sc]

Just before Jesus ascended into Heaven, He told His followers to be disciple makers. Jesus Himself had 12 disciples. This week we will look at what discipleship is and why it is an essential part of the church body, both in being discipled and discipling others.

We are called to go make disciples of all nations. Greg Sharpe, one of our missionary partners, shares why we take the gospel to the hardest places of the world.

The mission of the church is to make disciples. Anything that distracts from that mission must be removed. If we don’t grow people up in their faith, we are not fulfilling the Great Commission.

Too often people treat church membership like they would a YMCA membership. Biblically speaking, church membership is something so much more than an organization to belong to based upon what you can get out of it.

While many possible authorities exist for churches, North Side must determine what ours will be. The way that we desire to “do” church is based upon the authority of God’s Word.

Job was a righteous man that went through a terrible storm in his life. In this monologue, Travis Agnew shares the message of the entire Book of Job and shows how he stayed faithful through the storms.

No believer is immune to experiencing storms. Ken Petrus went through the loss of his son to cancer and realized that God is faithful even through the storms.

Believers are called to show steadfastness in the face of opposition. No matter the circumstances, believers are called to remain walking in the truth.

We show that the love of Jesus has changed us as we love one another and keep the commandments of God.

The Word is living and active. In this service, we recapped the Book of 1 John by simply reading through it and worshiping along the way.

As a final warning, John instructs believers to keep themselves from sin or the influence of idols.

The basis of John’s authority was the testimony of God in the coming of Jesus. John personally witnessed this and believed this and wants us to believe it too.

The world will not be overcome when the right political leaders are in place or all the systems align at the right time. The world will be overcome when believers stay faithful to God’s Word.

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

John warned that false prophets would come to lead us away from the truth. We are called to test every teaching that comes our way.

John instructed that we are not to love only in word or talk but in deed and in truth. Believers are called to live lives of love on display.

John stated that no one who abides in Jesus will continue in sin. If we will all sin into the day we die, what does that mean concerning our salvation?

True believers will love purity because God Himself is pure.

John taught that those who went away from the Church were never really a part of the Church in the first place. To display genuine conversion, remain in Christ.

As believers, we are called not to love the world or the things in the world.