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    Visitation-A Call or Command
    Visitation-A Call or Command
    Visitation-A Call or Command
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    Visitation-A Call or Command

    By Mike Little

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    Peter, the marketing fish monger who grow up to help lead a dynamic growth in Christianity, shows us all what is necessary to begin such a growth mission.Our churches do not actively visit neighborhoods and meet needs while showing love and concern. Come with me and see exactly what Peter teaches us about visitation and how this is a distinct command to all whether the call is accepted or not. Let's tqake a walk through Peter's instruction to the masses shortly after the resurrection and study the individual elements: Faith, Virtue, Knowledge, Temperance, Patience, Godliness, Brotherly Kindness, and Love. Let's then look at the new testament models for action: the Fruit of the Spirit, Missionary, and Jesus' charter to all believers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMike Little
    Release dateMay 17, 2012
    ISBN9781476247892
    Visitation-A Call or Command
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    Mike Little

    30 years as buyer with IBM.15 years as patient specialist with Duke.Been writing since third grade in school, but I have published my first e-book on Smashwords and I have one documentary available at Amazon(Northgate Park/Park View Church Partnership). I have published 12 additional books on Smashwords and am working on a 14th one now.

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      Visitation-A Call or Command - Mike Little

      Dedication

      For members of Park View Baptist Church and others seeking growth in their church by visitation. There are so many opportunities to bring the lost, starved, and displaced into the loving arms of a church body, but they are all just waiting for the inviting visit. This is dedicated to those who are willing to submit to the call or command from their savior.

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      Visitation – A Call or a Command

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

      Published by Mike Little at Smash words

      VISITATION- A CALL OR A COMMAND

      Copyright 2012- Mike Little

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      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book 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 work of this author.

      Cover image courtesy of Mike_kiev, Dreamstime.com

      Cover design by Stephannie Beman

      Table of Contents

      Visitation

      (13 week study)

      I. Visitation Introduction- Preparation

      1 Peter 1:5-8 Changed Life,Spiritual Gifts, Christian

      II. Visitation – Call or Command

      1 Peter 2:11-12 Day of Visitation

      III. Faith –

      Matthew 8:10 "Expression creates power in motion and Believer

      IV. Virtue – Power

      Philemon 4:8 Issue of Blood

      V. Knowledge

      Romans 10:2-4

      VI. Temperance- Self Restraint

      Acts 24:25 "Tell them and believe, the Holy Spirit will convict them

      VII. Patience – Enduring

      Romans 5:3

      VIII. Godliness- Divine

      1 Timothy 2:1-3 - God-like

      IX. Brotherly Kindness - Grouping

      Romans 12:10 Fellowship, Partnership

      X. Love – Perfect Bond of Unity

      Colossians 3:14 Perfection, Completion

      XI. Fruit of the Spirit

      Galatians 5:22-23

      XII. Missionary - Phillip

      Acts 8:31

      XIII. The Great Commission

      Matthew28:19-20

      Preparation

      2 Peter 1:5-8: Add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance, patience; and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

      INTRODUCTION

      I recently put up a storage shed in my back yard and the directions were so clear and specific, I finished the assembly in record time—only to find a lot of unused parts. I had skipped one whole page of directions; so, I had a choice to make. I could either tear down what I had assembled since the skipped page or I could leave the doors off the shed. There was really no choice—by my not following the order of directions, I had to go back to the start and begin again.

      Many of us have done similar things, but perhaps the worst disservice we can do to God, fellow man, and ourselves is not following God’s clear, concise plans for our lives. Everything we see, do, say, or hear is a direct result of God’s plan or our own independent plan.

      Visitation is much the same; if we are not properly prepared, God’s open doors will be closed by our selfish desires. What about you? Do you follow God’s directions from His Word or do you try to interpret His meaning for yourself? Let’s look at God’s clear directions for visitation.

      Bible Study

      Peter, the one having the key upon which Christ’s church was built, showed the Jews living in the areas around Jerusalem that a logical progression of steps make up a fruitful ministry and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. What was this key that Jesus acknowledged as the beginning

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