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    Sing To The Lord A New Song: Book 5
    Sing To The Lord A New Song: Book 5
    Sing To The Lord A New Song: Book 5
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    Sing To The Lord A New Song: Book 5

    By Doug Vermeulen

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    Synopsis For The Work – The Church
    By Doug Vermeulen

    Book 5 covers the functioning of the local church in relation to the “Go and...” scriptures in the New Testament. There is also an explanation of how the five-fold ministry interacts with the local church and on what basis.
    The Work 5-fold produces cell groups and Churches during the course of their activities, and to blend the two in the course of their Work would cause confusion in terms of their respective functions.
    To take control of the local cell group/Church would distort the patterns that God has laid down in His Scriptures.
    Because it is the nature of cell groups and Churches to be based in a certain locality, it therefore follows that the people there know the local conditions the best. They are then known as the Local Church.
    The believers in the local situation, however, become equipped as disciples for ministry under the guidance of the Work 5-fold done by the Apostles, Prophets, Pastor, Evangelist and Teachers.
    The Elders in the local situation liaise with the Workers 5-fold to do the work of ministry to their fellow believers, and also to the unbelievers in their GOOD NEWS meeting.
    The business of the local churches: cell groups consists in the mutual care of their various members, such as the conduct of meetings for the Covenant/breaking of bread, for Prayer, for Worship, for the spreading the Good News, for the study of the Word and for the exercise of the gifts
    We need to show the new converts that such duties as reading the Bible, praying, witnessing, assembling together and giving, are the minimum requirements of Christians.
    “You must look out for suitable premises and conduct your meetings.
    Your meetings are your responsibility, and the regular assembling of yourselves is one of your chief duties and privileges;”
    and these are fully dealt with in the detail of Church: cell groups in Book 3.
    As for the Wworkers: 5 fold, they must keep their Work: 5 fold distinct from the activities of the local Church: cell groups, but must go and have fellowship with the believers in their various local gatherings: cell groups.
    Local Churches trying to minister outside of their local situation fall prey to the law of diminishing returns, less and less will they be able to attend to the needs of the members of their local Church
    Nowhere in the New Testament is the Church described as a national or International Church. The description of Church is always in terms of locality – The Church at or in [a local area]. [See Revelation Chapters 1 – 5]
    The Wwork: 5-fold is regional. Churches remain intensely local
    This is where the Work 5-fold enters the picture. The focus of the Workers 5-fold is the Corporate Body of Christ, and consists of individual ministries intensely concerned with and connected with the Corporate Body. The whole idea is quite clear in the last part of 1 Corinthians 12.
    The local church: cell group is the sole authority for that area, even though the Worker: 5 fold may have founded the local church: cell group.
    --- `The sole aim of all Work: 5 fold for God is the increase and up-building of the local Churches: cell groups and the establishment of those gatherings.' ---
    Our Work: 5 Fold Is For Our Ministry, And Our Ministry Is For The Local Churches: Cell Groups.
    Thus Book 5 covers the functioning of the local church in relation to the “Go and...” scriptures in the New Testament. Thus we have an explanation of how the five-fold ministry interacts with the local church and on what basis.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoug Vermeulen
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301351671
    Sing To The Lord A New Song: Book 5
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    Doug Vermeulen

    Awarded the Training to Reign Certificate in 1987 and a Diploma in Theology in 1988 & from Christian International University Course Completion certificates in Bible Music & Worship and TCR Bible Study Methods. The years since then have been spent gaining hands on experience of the subject matter of this book; with the ministry being known as Zion Ministries, and this also required flowing in Apostolic function. Zion Ministries operates essentially as a teaching ministry, whose concern is training Christians in the five-fold ministry mentioned in Ephesians 4:11-16 [see Amplified Bible]

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      Sing To The Lord A New Song - Doug Vermeulen

      SING TO THE LORD A NEW SONG

      Psalm 33:3, 40:3, 96:1-13, 144:9, 149:1,

      1 Chronicles 16:23-33, Isaiah 42:10,

      Revelation 14:3, 19:6.

      by Doug Vermeulen

      BOOK 5

      THE WORK – THE CHURCH

      Published by Doug Vermeulen, at Smashwords

      Copyright. 2004 Doug Vermeulen.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard workof this author.

      Dear Reader, the lead-in to the text of the book is vital to the understanding of the context of this the first book of a series of twelve.

      I would be doing you a disservice if I threw you in the deep end of the pool, in terms of capturing the thought stream of the Sing to the Lord a New Song.

      Thank you for your patience; you will be rewarded in travelling a journey which pushes to the frontiers of the New Song. Bless you.

      Copyright

      N.I.V. text may be copied and /or reprinted up to and inclusive of one thousand (1,000) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted account for more than 50% or more of the total work in which they are quoted.

      Notice of the copyright must appear on the title or copyright page of the work as follows:

      Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.

      When quotations from the N.I.V. text are used as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies or similar media, the initials N.I.V. may be used at the end of each quotation.

      Quotations and/or reprints in excess of one thousand (1,000) verses or other permission requests must be directed and approved in writing by Zondervan Bible Publishers.

      The Easy to Read Version applies the same permissions as that above, namely 1,000 verses.

      Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read- Version

      Taken from the Holy Bible: Easy To Read Version

      © 2008 by the World Bible Translation Centre, Inc. and used by permission.

      Psalm 33:3 Sing a new song to him. Play it well and sing it loud!

      Psalm 40:3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see what he did and worship him. They will put their trust in the Lord.

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