Session 7 – David Rosales

• In every church, for have a mixture of maturity & immaturity.
• We need to know what we want to be.
• Do I want to be a vessel of honor, fit for the or Master's use, or do I want to become disqualified?
• Story of the "snot vase"
• Becoming a vessel of honor involves voluntary purity
  • Cleanse self from influence of false teachers
• Our theology is always worked out in community.
• When we're so focused on nickels 'n' noses, instead of on the Word, we'll fill our churches with leaven.
• Let it be, that if people disagree with you, that they disagree with the truth.
• Be careful who you allow to influence your teaching.
• Purge from the influence from carnal believers.
  • An immoral or doctrinally corrupt believer is more dangerous than an atheist.
  • Fellowship with a willfully corrupt vessel will tend to tempt us to sin.
• A need for attention is a mark of immaturity
• Beware of entering ministry with a desire for possessions.
• Even worse is a desire to control and dominate.
• We must recognize these desires for what they are, and die to them.
• A crowd is never a church.
• Whether 2 or 2000, it's all the Word of God.
• We are to be passionate, but not pugnacious.