I Love This Church! - Pastor Stacey Shiflett
- Pastor Shiflett
- Sep 8, 2025
- 3 min read
I Love This Church
Psalms 84:1 How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
Intro: Read the entire chapter of Psalm 84.
I have always believed this, and I still do – a person’s relationship with the local church is a reflection of their relationship with the One that died for the church.
There are a lot of Christians that profess to love Jesus, but they don’t love the same things He loves.
In fact, they don’t have any interest in it at all.
I want to go on record tonight – I love church, but more specifically, I LOVE THIS CHURCH!
AMIABLE: beloved, wellbeloved, loves, amiable
I Love This Church because of the…
I. Following of the Savior
· 1 Peter 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps.
Hebrews 12
· 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of [our] faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
· 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
I Love This Church because of the…
II. Fervency of the Saints
A. Fervent Spirit
· Romans 12:11 Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
I’m glad I don’t go to a dead church!
B. Fervent Charity
· 1 Peter 4:8 And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
C. Fervent Prayers
· James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
I Love This Church because of the…
III. Fight against Sin
Hebrews 12
· 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
· 4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
1 Corinthians 5
· 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
· 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
I Love This Church because of the…
IV. Focus on Souls
John 4
· 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
· 35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
The focus on winning the lost in our community – all the outreaches and soulwinning endeavors
The focus on winning the lost in our country – Every State Project
The focus on winning the lost in our world – Every Nation Project
I Love This Church because of the…
V. Furnishing of the Scriptures
2 Timothy 3
· 14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
· 15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
· 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
· 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
