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As part of the Topical series, preached at a Sunday Youth Service service, Eugene Shkarovskiy, our Pastor preached a message on the commitment to the local church. Here are some of the questions that he addresses: Can you say you are committed to your local church? Should you even be committed? And if so, what does this commitment mean? Is commitment measured by agreement? Attitude? Attendance? Membership? As Christians we need to cultivate a biblical response to our local church. This response is expressed in informed intelligent understanding and attitudes toward church: doctrine, leadership, philosophy, people, and development. To truly build up the Church of Christ we must be fully committed to a local church. To listen or to download the sermon click on the link below: Commitment to Word of Grace Bible Church

“Upstream” is not only a name; it is a direction. It means to go against the grain. It is to resist the course of the surrounding majority. It is to risk rejection and opposition. It is about daring to be different, standing out, and not letting popular opinion and trends define who you are and what you do. However, the concept is not about being different for the sake of being different, nor is it about rejecting all norms and standards. To be upstream is to be under the will of God, as revealed to us by Holy Scripture, and to reject all contrary views, regardless of their source. The world we live in is rather hostile to what the Bible calls “the way of life.” Its philosophy of self-worship, its never ending pursuits of pleasure, and its constant rebellion against the God of the Bible is producing a generation of people void of the knowledge of truth. The results of this are catastrophic, “although they knew the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them” (Rom 1:32); Upstream ...