Virtue

TIMES OF SERVICES

SUNDAY: 9:30 A.M. BIBLE CLASS

10:30 A.M. WORSHIP

WEDNESDAY: 7 P.M. BIBLE CLASS

Welcome to the Haynes Street church of Christ

Virtue

II Peter 1:5-8: Though our individual goal is to grow to perfection in Jesus Christ, we teach progress, not perfection.

We are to increase in those Christian graces.It marks a healthy, productive Christian.Maturity is about what we do, not what we

know.But what is virtue?

Moral excellence, goodness, righteousness. Quality that is active, not passive.

Virtue

Strengthen your foundation: Faith.We must have a growing faith (Rom. 10:9-10; I Peter 1:8, 10; Heb. 4:11).

We must increase and demonstrate our faith (Rom. 1:5, 10:17; James 2:14-26).

Build onto your foundation: Virtue.Eph. 4:17-32: Old man vs. new man.God’s word: the standard (II Tim. 3:16-17).

Virtue

Virtue: Stems from the character of God God can’t lie (Heb. 6:18). God is faithful (I Thess. 5:24). God is righteous (Rom. 9:14). Strength of character (II Pet. 1:5).

How does character come? Contemplate what is right (Phil. 4:8). Decide what’s right (Rom. 12:9). Put it in practice to do what is right (II Pet.

1:5).

Virtue

Virtue does not ask what will others think and how will it affect me physically or materially.

It asks one question: Is it right?We are God’s workmanship (Eph. 2:10).That doesn’t mean sitting on our backsides

and being pulled along God’s path.Phil. 2:12-13: Work out our own salvation.Our work is valuable and matters because

God is working.

God’s Plan of Salvation

Hear (Romans 1:16; 10:14,17)Believe (John 8:24; Mark 16:16; Hebrews

11:6)Repent (Acts 2:38; 3:19; 17:30)Confess (Romans 10:9-10; Matthew 10:32-

33)Be baptized (Acts 2:38; 22:16; Mark 16:16)Live faithfully (Revelation 2:10; Matthew

6:33; Romans 12:1-2; I Corinthians 15:58)