Caring for Each Other’s Spiritual Needs (Ephesians 4)
THEME: “God wants to work through you to help our church grow spiritually.”
“Having been led by the Holy Spirit to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour and on profession of our faith in Him, having been baptized by immersion in the name of the Father, and the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, we do now most solemnly and joyfully enter into covenant with one another as one body in Christ.
We promise that we will watch over and counsel one another in the spirit of brotherly love, that we will remember one another in our prayers, and that we will aid each other in sickness and distress.”
I. The Priority of Spiritual Care
A. Spiritually Unified
B. Spiritually Commissioned (2 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:2)
II. The Misunderstanding of Spiritual Care
A. Leave It to the Pastor
B. Leave It to the Seasoned Christian
C. Leave It to Them
III. The Goal of Spiritual Care
A. Put Off Sin
B. Renew Through Scripture
C. Put on Christ
IV. The Demonstration of Spiritual Care
A. Consider in Love (Hebrews 10:24)
B. Counsel in Love
C. Pray in Love (Ephesians 6:18-19)