January 12, 2020         Rev. Thomas M. Cox

#1: WE ARE CHRISTIANS

1) Overview 

• WE ARE C_________IANS

• WE ARE REFORMED

• WE ARE *PRESBYTERIAN

• WE ARE _ _ _ (2 weeks)

• WE ARE _ _ _ (3 weeks)

2) Perspectives

• A survey of the B____________ & practices of the church 

• No O__________tion to join

• “Credible P____________ion of Faith”

• E__________________ > *Distinctives

• Reminders for members

3) We Are Christians

• The G__________ (1 Corinthians 15:1-11)

• The C__________ of the Church (see Hymnal, pp. 845-6)

• My Testimony

1 Corinthians 15:1-11 (ESV)

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. 6 Then He appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep. 7 Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one untimely born, He appeared also to me. 

9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 11 Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.