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The Value Proposition

The Value Proposition. Grace Bible Church – Rolling Meadows Bob Williams May 20, 2012. Values Clarification. Started in the late 1960’s : “ a process of teaching children about ethics and morality and how to make ethical and moral decisions”. Values Clarification.

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The Value Proposition

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  1. The Value Proposition Grace Bible Church – Rolling Meadows Bob Williams May 20, 2012

  2. Values Clarification • Started in the late 1960’s: “a process of teaching children about ethics and morality and how to make ethical and moral decisions”

  3. Values Clarification • Started in the late 1960’s • Now has been taught to millions

  4. Values Clarification • Started in the late 1960’s • Now has been taught to millions • Says: Truth is just a matter of opinion; and whatever decision reached is morally just and not evil

  5. Values Clarification • Started in the late 1960’s • Now has been taught to millions • Says: Truth is just a matter of opinion • Therefore, right and wrong are just matters of opinion with no absolutes

  6. Values 1828 Webster’s defines “value” as: worth, utility, price, importance

  7. Values Change in meaning in Webster’s: • social principles; • goals or standards; • a person’s principles or standards of behavior; • one’s judgment of what is important in life

  8. Values • Change in meaning in Webster’s • Confuses morals and ethics with values

  9. Values • Change in meaning in Webster’s • Confuses morals and ethics with values • Eliminates absolutes including biblical inerrancy

  10. Result • Millions are without a moral compass not knowing right from wrong

  11. Result • Millions are without a moral compass not knowing right from wrong • Right, wrong, evil . . . based on subjective judgment – no objective standards

  12. Result • Millions are without a moral compass not knowing right from wrong • Right, wrong, evil . . . based on subjective judgment – no objective standards • People are doing what feels right to them

  13. Value Proposition A business or marketing statement that summarizes why a consumer should buy a product or use a service. This statement should convince a potential consumer that one particular product or service will add more value or better solve a problem than other similar offerings.

  14. Our Need Phil. 4:19

  15. Our Need To be saved from sin Regenerated to new life

  16. Our Need • Companionship “We took sweet counsel together, and walked into the house of God in company.” (Ps. 55:14)

  17. Companionship • The right kind of company • 2 Cor. 6:14; Eph. 5:11 Christians need to be discriminate in marriage, business and church affiliation

  18. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company

  19. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63

  20. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63 • Proverbs 13:20

  21. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63 • Proverbs 13:20 • Phil. 2:25

  22. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63 • Proverbs 13:20 • Phil. 1:5; 2:25 • 1 Cor. 5:9-11

  23. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63 • Proverbs 13:20 • Phil. 1:5; 2:25 • 1 Cor. 5:9-11 • 2 Thes. 3:14

  24. Companionship • The right kind of company • The right kind of Christian company • Psalms 119:63 • Proverbs 13:20 • Phil. 1:5; 2:25 • 1 Cor. 5:9-11 • 2 Thes. 3:14 • Ro. 15:1, 2

  25. Our Need • Companionship • Comfort

  26. Comfort • In the Comforter: • John 14:16, 26

  27. Comfort • In the Comforter: • John 14:16, 26 • Ro. 8:26

  28. Comfort • In the Comforter • In His Word: • Ro. 15:4

  29. Comfort • In the Comforter • In His Word: • Ro. 15:4 • 1 Thes. 4:13-18

  30. Comfort • In the Comforter • In His Word: • Ro. 15:4 • 1 Thes. 4:13-18 • 2 Cor. 1:3, 4

  31. Our Need • Companionship • Comfort • Communion

  32. Communion • Of the Holy Ghost • 2 Cor. 13:14

  33. Communion • Of the Holy Ghost • In the gospel • Phil. 1:5

  34. Communion • Of the Holy Ghost • In the gospel • Of His sufferings • Phil. 3:10

  35. Communion • Of the Holy Ghost • In the gospel • Of his sufferings • Of the mystery • Eph. 3:9

  36. We need to remember . . . “But my God shall supply all your need, according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.” (Phil. 4:19)

  37. And . . . Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. (2 Cor. 3:5)

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