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August 31, 2022
Title: Characteristics of a Healthy Church
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Pastor Ed Ethridge – Retired
with Truth for You Ministries (www.truthforyou.net/)
Part 1 of 3
The Body of Christ – the Church – is charged to carry out the Great Commission. If the Church is not healthy, can the work of Jesus Christ be fruitful?
Pastor Ed Ethridge, former Pastor at
Champion Forest Baptist Church, discusses some of the characteristics of a healthy church using Matthew 28:16-20: The Great Commission.
Click here for more information about Pastor Ed Ethridge and
Truth for You Ministries.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
What is the Great commission? Is this the “responsibility” of the Church?
Is every Christian commanded to be a missionary in a different country?
Why are we to baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and Holy Spirit? Pastor Ed explains why this is Biblical and how it connects to the Great Commission.
What did Jesus command us to do? Are Old Testament teachings and laws irrelevant? Is the New Testament still relevant today? Pastor Ed references Acts 20, when Paul spoke to the elders in Ephesus about preaching the whole counsel of God. “We can’t pick and choose what we’re going to believe”, Pastor Ed says.
For a church to be healthy, its members must be fruitful. Is moral, righteous living imperative? (1 Peter 1:16)
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Title: Part 2 of 3 - Characteristics of a Healthy Church
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Pastor Ed Ethridge – Retired
with Truth for You Ministries (www.truthforyou.net/)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Do healthy churches fulfill the Great Commission?
Are bigger churches (with more members) healthier churches? (Ephesians 5:1)
Why is it important for churches to teach sound, Biblical doctrine from the
pulpit all the way to the infant classroom? Pastor Ed believes this is the
missing link in many churches today and why there are so many moral problems in
the United States right now.
Has God always existed? Did God create the heavens and earth?
Do too many church leaders shy away from the “s” word – sin?
Who was Jesus, the only son of God?
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Title: Part 3 of 3 - Characteristics of a Healthy Church
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Pastor Ed Ethridge – Retired
with Truth for You Ministries (www.truthforyou.net/)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
What did Jesus say just before he ascended into heaven? Are his words still
applicable to our lives today?
Must Christ-followers be taught moral, righteous living for the Church to be
healthy? Pastor Ed says: “We live in a morally corrupt society… We must
teach the principles of Scripture that guide us and direct us and be unashamed…
The Church has to be on top of this.”
Why should Christ-followers let Jesus shine through them at all times? Does
this also include being “good”? (Ephesians 5:1)
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September 2, 2021
Title: Are Christians Still Following and Obeying the Great Commission?
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Savannah Kimberlin
with Barna Group (www.barna.com)
The overall perception of how to practice missions and global
evangelism has been shifting, especially among younger generations.
Savannah Kimberlin is a certified data miner and predictive modeler who
specializes in advanced analytics with the Barna Group. Today she
discusses a recent survey they conducted on churchgoers’ perception of the
Great Commission.
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here for more on this survey from the Barna Group.
Questions/Issues Discussed
What is a data miner and predictive modeler?
Who are “churchgoers”?
Were many international missions put on hold because of the pandemic?
Are churchgoers’ ideas about missions evolving?
What is the Great Commission? Do many churchgoers know this? Do they
follow it? Savannah breaks down the age groups and how they understood what the
Great Commission is…
How inspired is each group to evangelize?
Do churchgoers feel equipped to share their faith? Do church leaders need to do
more evangelism training?
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January 15, 2020
Title: Are You Fulfilling the Great Commission?
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Pastor Ed Ethridge
with Champion Forest Baptist Church (www.ChampionForest.org)
Part 1 of 2
Today, Pastor Ed Ethridge encourages us today to keep going – keep
trying – keep spreading God’s love to others.
Questions/Issues Discussed:
What is the Great Commission?
Why did Jesus leave his father, God, in heaven to come to earth?
Does God desire for us to stand alone or with others in the Body of Christ?
What is the Church (or the Body of Christ)? Pastor Ed discusses two aspects that
we must realize and remember…
Many people who attend church Sunday after Sunday are not saved believers in
Jesus Christ. How can we reach them?
Is each member of the body to be God’s hands/feet/spokespersons for the cause of
Christ? Pastor Ed says this: “We evangelize the sinner and edify the saints.”
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Title: Part 2 of 2 - Are You Fulfilling the Great Commission?
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Pastor Ed Ethridge
with Champion Forest Baptist Church (www.ChampionForest.org)
Questions/Issues Discussed:
Are too many Christians today inept, competent, and unskilled to fulfill the
Great Commission?
Do too many Christians today feel powerless against the world?
Do too many Christians today apologize for their faith, instead of defending it?
Pastor Ed closes with a powerful prayer over each of us…
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January 6, 2011
Title: The Great Commission – Fear No More.
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Mark Lanier
with Biblical Literacy (www.Biblical-Literacy.com)
Day 4
Mark Lanier, Bible Study leader at Champion Forest Baptist Church continues with
his great lesson on the Great Commission. Did the early church grow by silent,
weak-kneed believers who were afraid to share their faith with non-believers?
This is part one of Mark’s lesson on the Great Commission. All his lessons, with
handouts and videos, can be found at www.Biblical-Literacy.com.
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January 5, 2011
Title: The Great Commison – Fear No More.
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Mark Lanier
with Biblical Literacy (www.Biblical-Literacy.com)
Day 3
Mark Lanier, Bible Study leader
at Champion Forest Baptist Church continues with his great lesson on the Great
Commission. Did the early church grow by silent, weak-kneed believers who were
afraid to share their faith with non-believers? This is part one of Mark’s
lesson on the Great Commission. All his lessons, with handouts and videos, can
be found at www.Biblical-Literacy.com.
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January 3, 2011
Title: The Great Commison – Fear No More.
Topic: Great Commission
Discussed by Mark Lanier
with Biblical Literacy (www.Biblical-Literacy.com)
Day 1
Mark Lanier, Bible Study leader at Champion Forest Baptist Church begins a great
lesson today on the Great Commission. Did the early church grow by silent,
weak-kneed believers who were afraid to share their faith with non-believers?
This is part one of Mark’s lesson on the Great Commission. All his lessons, with
handouts and videos, can be found at www.Biblical-Literacy.com.
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