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3. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO A GOSPEL MEETING - OCTOBER 24 th – 26 th GOSPEL MEETING - OCTOBER 24 th – 26 th NEWTON CHURCH OF CHRIST NEWTON CHURCH OF CHRIST MEETING AT SAINT JAMES CHURCH ROAD AND GLENDALE MEETING AT SAINT JAMES CHURCH ROAD AND GLENDALE NEWTON, NC NEWTON, NC FRIDAY --- 7:00pm FRIDAY --- 7:00pm SATURDAY --- 7:00pm SATURDAY --- 7:00pm Sunday --- 9:30am and 11:00am Sunday --- 9:30am and 11:00am

4. TONIGHT’S SHOW Investigate The Truth On The Belief THAT YOU MAY - “JOIN THE CHURCH OF YOUR CHOICE”

5. IT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING… THAT THE CHOICE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE BY GOD. THAT THE CHOICE HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE BY GOD. THAT DEMONINATIONS ARE NOT PLEASING TO GOD. THAT DEMONINATIONS ARE NOT PLEASING TO GOD. THAT DENOMINATIONS ARE THE WORKS OF MEN. THAT DENOMINATIONS ARE THE WORKS OF MEN. THAT DENOMINATIONS ARE SATANS DECEPTION TO APPEAL TO MAN’S NATURE OF BEING IN CONTROL. THAT DENOMINATIONS ARE SATANS DECEPTION TO APPEAL TO MAN’S NATURE OF BEING IN CONTROL. THAT DENOMINATIONS CANNOT BE THE CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. THAT DENOMINATIONS CANNOT BE THE CHURCH OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. STOP AND INVESTIGATE

6. Are Denominations Pleasing To God? CHRIST PRAYED FOR UNITY OF THE ONE BODY! John 17:20-21 ---- “Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” PAUL AN APOSTLE OF CHRIST COMMANDED THAT THERE BE NO DIVISIONS: 1 Corinthians 1:10 ---- 10 Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. The King James Version, (Cambridge: Cambridge) 1769.

7. DENOMINATIONS ARE THE WORKS OF MEN! TimePlaceFounderDenomination 606 A.D. Rome Boniface III Roman Catholic 1520 A.D. Germany Martin Luther Lutheran 1534 A.D. England Henry VIII Episcopalian

8. DENOMINATIONS ARE THE WORKS OF MEN! TimePlaceFounderDenomination 1536 A.D. Switzerland John Calvin Presbyterian 1607 A.D. Holland John Smythe Baptist 1739 A.D. England John Wesley Methodist

9. Satan Is The Master Of Deception! You May Be Saying: You May Be Saying: I FEEL that this church is of GOD! I FEEL that this church is of GOD! How can so many be lost? How can so many be lost? SATAN HAS THREE BASIC DESIRES: SATAN HAS THREE BASIC DESIRES: TO STOP you from becoming a Child of GOD. TO STOP you from becoming a Child of GOD. TO PULL you back into the WORLD OF SIN. TO PULL you back into the WORLD OF SIN. TO MAKE you FRUITLESS. TO MAKE you FRUITLESS. WHAT better way to achieve this than to tell man he may make a CHOICE of the CHURCHES OF MEN! WHAT better way to achieve this than to tell man he may make a CHOICE of the CHURCHES OF MEN!

10. THE TERM CHURCH IN THE N.T. REFERS TO: : THE UNIVERSAL BODY: Comprised of All Obedient Baptized Believers THE LORD ADDS TO THIS BODY – Acts 2:47 HAS no organization other that CHRIST AS THE HEAD. HAS no doctrine other than the DOCTINE OF CHRIST --- see 2 John 9 THE LOCAL BODY: Comprised of Obedient Baptized Believers in any given locality. ONE JOINS HIMSELF TO THIS BODY HAS CONGREGATION Organization of: ELDERS, DEACONS and SAINTS --- Philippians 1:1 UPHOLDS ALL THE WORDS OF TRUTH.

11. DENOMINATIONS CANNOT BE THE CHURCH OF THE N.T. The word denomination means: “The name of a class or division of things;" such as, the different denominations of the United States monetary system; "a class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; a part of the whole.“. Thus a denominational church, according to common usage and understanding, would be one class, or group, or society of individuals called by the same name as opposed to other classes or groups, or societies of individuals called by different names, which men establish solely by human authority yet within the claim that such churches make up the one true church belonging to the Lord, such as the different denominations which make up our United States money or currency.

12. DENOMINATIONS CANNOT BE THE CHURCH OF THE N.T. A denomination is a religious organization which is larger than any local congregation, since that denomination consists of many local congregations of that denomination or religious order different from all other denominations of other religious orders. Yet such a denomination is smaller than the universal church, the body of the saved, the saved in the aggregate, or the sum total of all who have believed and obeyed the gospel of Christ and thus saved and added to the church of Christ by the Lord Himself. BAPTIST DENOMINATION Local Congregations

13. DENOMINATIONS CANNOT BE THE CHURCH OF THE N.T. No one denomination even claims to have all Christians in it or to be the whole body of the saved. No one denomination even claims to have all Christians in it or to be the whole body of the saved. By their own admission a denomination is Larger than any local congregation and yet Smaller than the whole church, the One New Testament church By their own admission a denomination is Larger than any local congregation and yet Smaller than the whole church, the One New Testament church ONE BODY OF CHRIST ??? VARIOUS DENOMINATIONS OF MEN

14. THE ONE BODY OF CHRIST THE ONE BODY --- Matthew 16:18 Comprised Of: Obedient Baptized Believers Added To By The Lord – Acts 2:47 CHRIST AS THE ONLY HEAD – Col. 1:18

15. BUT …. THE SCRIPTURES TEACH: THE SCRIPTURES TEACH: That the church of Christ,the one church you can read about in the New Testament, which belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ, the one which is fully identified therein as to its establishment, its head, its Savior, its means of entrance, its name or scriptural designations, its organization, its worship, its work, and its destiny can be identified today. We are talking about the Lord's church, the one to which He adds all the saved (cf. Mark 16:16- 18 ; Acts 2:47), and which is not a denomination in any sense of the word. We are talking about the Lord's church, the one to which He adds all the saved (cf. Mark 16:16- 18 ; Acts 2:47), and which is not a denomination in any sense of the word.

16. Next Show ---- IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH BEGINNING PLACE BEGINNING PLACE BEGINNING DATE BEGINNING DATE FOUNDER FOUNDER ORGANIZATION ORGANIZATION And WORSHIP And WORSHIP JOIN US OCTOBER 24 th – 26 th GOSPEL MEETING at Newton church of Christ Saint James Church Road and Glendale Road

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