OUTLINE
By Dan Hubbell
HOW
TO ESTABLISH CHURCHES
- Desire to seek the Lord.
- Lay down traditions.
- Word of God is the plumbline.
- The importance of brokenness and refining.
- Apply II Timothy 2:2.
- Jesus builds His Church.
- The presence and preeminence of Christ.
- The ekklesia.
- Church in its simplest form.
- Fellowship and unity of the church.
- God added to the church.
- Witnessing was primarily relational
- Churches grew by multiplication
- Need for church discipline.
- Churches were established in different ways.
- Foundational builders.
- Plurality of the continuing ongoing leadership.
- Deacons as servants of the church.
- Leaders as tentmakers.
- Giving in the early church.
- Training of leaders.
- Church of the city/town.
- Church gathered and scattered.
- Similarities and uniqueness of each church.
- Apostles’ doctrine.
- Balance in all teachings.
- Size of churches.
- House gatherings assembling together.
- The most common name for churches.
- The structure of the churches.
- A city/town church relating to one another city/town church.
- The unity of the whole Body of Christ
- The church and the kingdom
- Responding to persecution.
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