A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

(2) Confirmation

(3) The Eucharist (Lord’s Supper)

(4) Penance: Confessional

(5) Extreme unction

(6) Orders

(7) Matrimony (marriage)

b. The Catholic view of sacrament: “a visible sign of invisible grace instituted for our justification”

c. A sacrament is a way in which Christ continues to make sensible things the channel of grace to us which elevates and sanctifies our lives.

7. The Church “Gathered:” the believers meeting together as a group, and also the explicit focus on the unity of the body in the presence of the Lord together, Eph. 4.1-3.

8. Principles of corporate worship

a. Regular and deliberate, Heb. 10.24-25 – And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, [25] not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

b. All come prepared to participate, 1 Cor. 14.26 – What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.