3. Nine Marks

4. What are the fundamental parts of a church and what do they mean at Grafted.

6. Leviticus 19:28
28 You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

8. “Indeed by proving heretics to be wrong we bring into clearer light what your Church believes and what sound doctrine is.”
-The Confessions of St. Augustine,
Book VII, chapter 19

9. Galatians 1:6-9
6 I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

13. Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning, God…

14. Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning, God… (created the heavens and the earth.)

15. Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning, God…

17. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.

18. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.

19. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
-Sir Arthur C. Clarke

21. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.

22. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.

23. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.

24. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.

25. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.

26. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.

27. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.

28. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.

30. Galatians 3:16-21
16 yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

31. Galatians 3:16-21
17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.

32. Galatians 3:16-21
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

33. Galatians 3:16-21
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.

34. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.
Get out of Hell free card.

35. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.
Get out of Hell free card.
Prosperity Gospel

36. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.
Get out of Hell free card.
Prosperity Gospel
Jesus is Savior, but not Christ the King.

37. Isaiah 9:6-7
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

38. Alternate “Good News”es
There is no God.
If there is a god we cannot know it – or – god doesn’t interact with the world.
We are good enough to interact with god on our own merits.
Get out of Hell free card.
Prosperity Gospel
Jesus is Savior, but not Christ the King.

40. “The Gospel is the only way that sinful people can be reconciled to God. The Gospel is our motivation for obedience as Christians. The Gospel is what enables us to worship God; to come into the presence of God. Through the Gospel our worship of God is acceptable. So the Gospel is central in the life of the Christian and needs to be central in the life of the church.
And so where we need to begin is with a clear understanding of the Gospel.”
-Bobby Jamieson,
Assistant Editor for 9Marks

41. Is the Gospel good news to you this evening, or are you allowing some other good news to be the truth upon which you build your life?