1. Preventive Maintenance
Avoiding Spiritual Break Down

2. Preventive Maintenance (PM) Is Biblical
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
Medicine, diet, repairs, planning, etc.
PM is wise (Eccl. 10:18)
PM is found in the New Testament (Heb. 2:1; 2 Pet. 1:10)

3. How Can I Gauge My Situation?
Assembling / attendance (Psa. 122:1; Heb. 10:25)
Bible study (1 Tim. 4:13)
Meditation (Psa. 1:2; 119:11,97; Phil. 4:8)
Lord’s supper (1 Cor. 11:29-30)
Involvement (Neh. 4:6; 1 Cor. 15:58; Eph. 4:16)

4. How Can I Gauge My Situation?
Faith: strong (Rom. 4:20) or little (Mt. 17:20)
Hope (Heb. 6:19)
Patience (Rom. 2:7)
Giving: give up, give out, give in (Mt. 19:21)
Application (Jas. 1:22-25)

5. How Can I Gauge My Situation?
Prayer (1 Thess. 5:17-18)
Growth (1 Pet. 2:2; 2 Pet. 1:5)
Abhorring evil (Psa. 119:104,128; Rom. 12:9)
Associations (1 Cor. 15:33)
Goals (Mt. 6:33; Phil. 3:14; Col. 3:2; Heb. 12:1)

6. Preventive Maintenance Areas
Local church (Eph. 4:3)
Marriage (Eph. 5:31)
Family (Eph. 6:4)
Individual (Eph. 6:14-18)
Others (Rom. 12:18; Phil. 4:5)
God (Mic. 6:8)

7. Problem Areas
Time (Rom. 13:11; Eph. 5:16; 1 Pet. 4:2)
Television … or any form of media (Psa. 101:3)
Temptation (Mt. 6:13; Mk. 14:38)
Treasures (Mt. 6:19-21)
Tongue (Prov. 18:21)

8. Examine yourself (1 Cor. 11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5)
Hold Fast and Hold On!
Examine yourself (1 Cor. 11:28; 2 Cor. 13:5)
Hold fast the confession of our hope (Heb. 10:23)
Let us not end up like…
Weak disciples (Jn. 6:66)
Hymenaeus and Alexander (1 Tim. 1:20)
Demas (2 Tim. 4:10)