Local Church

Largely through the planning and organization of one of my staff members, we recently developed a more comprehensive, five-part discipleship approach. We put the picture of each new family with whom we are working on a piece of paper and are able to track from that one sheet of paper in these five areas:

Let him know if his preaching is a help to you. Point out something specific God spoke to you about.

The church at Antioch in Acts 13 sent out men who were called, qualified, and capable. They were not looking for somewhere to send someone to be “an encouragement” to them. They were not looking for a place of service elsewhere for those who could not or would not serve effectively in their own local church.

Every pastor wants his church to grow. Many pastors do not realize that they often hold the key to significant growth. We know that God ultimately blesses a church with numerical growth as He sees fit, but the pastor can unlock the door to usher in this growth if he is willing to pay the price.

God has given us the answer that the world needs—the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But what do we do with this treasure? How do we steward the Gospel? How can we get this truth into all the world?

I am an independent Baptist not only by my heritage but also by personal conviction. I am thankful for the godly men who led a great surge of the independent movement in the 1940s and 50s.

In Mark 16, the disciples were at an obvious transition in their lives. They had sat at the feet of Jesus and now they were receiving instruction from the Lord Himself.

Sermon outline: This is an abbreviated outline with the complete sermon downloadable at the bottom of the post. The church is an ecclesia, a called out assembly. The word ecclesia has the idea of a local, visible, called out, organized assembly of people.

The deacons who serve our church have been a help to me—and to our entire church family—beyond what words can describe.

It does the heathen little good if the church is full of called missionaries. The sending step is crucial.

How can we accomplish this Great Commission? Is there a technique or element of technology we can use to boost our success stats? What should be our strategy?

If church planting were easy, everybody would be doing it. While church planting is not rocket science, it is a lot of old-fashioned hard work.

Most if not all church planters have heard the word scaffolding used by preachers to describe many of the people who were attracted to their church plants during their early days.

The world recognizes those who give financially to causes. They call them philanthropists. They also recognize those who go to great lengths to meet the physical needs of others

My dad finished preaching a service in a revival meeting one night and was “complimented” by a dear older lady. “Brother Ouellette, that was a good sermon,” she said. “There wasn’t no doctrine or nothin’ in it.”

A relationship can be defined as a logical or natural association between two or more people. Relationships are very important in the business world.

Growth continued until when we were four and a half years old we left a Baptist denomination, and we were sued for everything we owned.

There is a vast difference between knowing what you are and knowing what you are supposed to do. When I first got married I knew that I was a husband. However, I had no idea what I was supposed to do!