Southside Christian Church Mission

Drawing People to Jesus Thru Salvation, Spiritual Growth, and Significant Service

Our worship service offers the Good News of Salvation every Sunday morning.

"as it is written: "There is none righteous, not even one" and

"all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:10, 23 NASB]”

demonstrates the failure of our choices and everyone's need. When the Word of God is preached:

"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

“Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him." [Romans 5:8-9],

and the Holy Spirit brings conviction on our spirit:

"that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;

for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation." [Romans 10:9-10]

So Southside offers an invitation every Sunday so that

"He who has believed and been baptized shall be saved . . ." [Mark 16:16]

DRAWING PEOPLE TO JESUS THROUGH SALVATION, SPIRITUAL GROWTH, AND SIGNIFICANT SERVICE

It is essential for us to understand that the primary purpose of Sunday school is the achievement of spiritual growth. Attending a Sunday school helps us grow spiritually while also gaining the knowledge that is foundational to discipleship. The gospel is a message. The Triune God has revealed himself to us in a Book. And he calls us to love him with all our heart, soul, and mind (Matt. 22:37).

All Christians are called to grow in the knowledge of God as a means of growth in godliness. In Hebrews 5:12 the author rebukes his readers, saying, “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of God’s word. You need milk, not solid food.” He expected these believers to be consistently growing in knowledge.

Or again in 1 Corinthians 14:20 Paul writes, “Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.” Paul here shows us that it is the responsibility of every Christian to grow in their thinking about God.

Southside is striving to equip every single member of their flock with a well-rounded, scripturally derived, steadily increasing knowledge of God and his ways. We want every single person in our church to grow in their knowledge of Scripture, to develop a biblical worldview, and to be increasingly able to apply the gospel to every area of their lives.

Sunday school is a valuable tool for conforming our churches to the image of Christ. It feeds our people the knowledge they need to grow in godly living. It complements and supplements the regular pulpit ministry. And it is able to do what other contexts such as small groups can’t, namely, foster rigorous intellectual engagement about a wide range of matters that are crucial to discipleship.

If you have grown stagnant in your spiritual growth, here is an invitation to consider what you might be missing out on. Consider how you might be better able to equip yourself for works of service if you devoted weekly time, in addition to the sermon, to laying intellectual and practical foundations that will equip you to grow as a disciple of Jesus.

Drawing People to Jesus Through Salvation, Spiritual Growth, and Significant Service

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