Metro Bible Church

The church glorifies God because it is equipped, exhorted and expected to persevere through Jesus Christ.

The church is to remember her faithful dead, avoid the strange and obey her elders on the journey home.

Believers are witnesses who proclaim His Resurrection and are protected until their testimony is finished.

The church proclaims the name of Jesus as the only means of salvation.

The church gratefully worships by guarding her heart, knowing God will protect and provide for His own.

The church is to show gratitude for Christ's sacrifice by loving through hospitality and ministry.

The church draws near in grateful worship because our kingdom will not be shaken when our Savior returns as Judge.

The church draws near in joyful worship because God is now approachable through Christ's atoning work.

Finishing well means staying the course, strengthening the weak, pursuing the wandering and protecting the flock.

The church faithfully endures persecution knowing it is the Father's loving discipline designed to produce holiness.

...

Holding fast to sound doctrine, while protecting it, preaching it and reminding God's people of it, will produce godliness in the lives of God's people.

Christ is the ultimate example and enabler of endurance for His persecuted church.

Genuine faith experiences persecution yet stays true to Christ till the end, and thus is assured salvation.

The church needs a consistent faith that speaks God's Word and serves God's people.

Those who trade the truth for a lie need the gospel.

The church is to emulate faith that is driven by a passion for God's glory.

In the light of Christ's sacrifice for you, be a living sacrifice for Him.

Peace with God changes access, acceptance and attitude with God.

The church should emulate Christ's joy-fueled endurance.

Genuine faith operates with confidence amid rejection and persecution.

Discontentment pridefully declares to the One who willingly paid our sin-debt on the cross, "Sorry, Lord, but You're just not enough for me. I want more."

Genuine faith is fearless and tenacious because we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us.

Genuine faith turns fear into courage when we are desperately dependent upon Him for victory.

Genuine faith turns fear into courage when we are desperately dependent upon Him for victory.

Genuine faith boldly advances trusting God fights our battles and protects His children.

The church actively chooses God's will knowing God will preserve them.

The church needs to respond with underdog faith because that is how God fulfills His promises.

Christians love one another based on the truth they know by abiding in Christ.

The church commits to obey the Lord, because He has already committed Himself to us.

In order to die well, one needs to live well, having a long view of the promises and our heavenly reward.

The church needs to patiently trust in the impossible promises because God of the impossible made them.

The church needs to live and think like a sojourner who trusts God's timing on His promises.

The church needs to understand and obey the call, even when it is difficult to see the road ahead.

The church needs to understand only an obedient faith, that often results in persecution, escapes condemnation.

The church needs to understand only a walking faith results in commendation.

The church should emulate Abel's living by faith in both attitude and action.

Living faith is evidenced by trusting in God's Word and receiving Divine authentication of that evidence.

Children of God have confidence that they abide in Him as they keep His commandments by practicing righteousness and loving one another as Christ loved.

...

Only confidence in Christ produces endurance that gives confidence of salvation.

Confidence in the person and work of Christ produces bold living.

The church casts aside shadows and holds fast to His perfect sacrifice that accomplished propitiation, reconciliation and sanctification.

The New Covenant Mediator actually accomplished redemption and will return for His church.

Believers need to realize that the new covenant provides entrance to God and a cleansed conscience so we will hold fast in faithfulness.

The church holds fast to the new covenant knowing it alone provides reconciliation.

The church pursues unity by practicing her identity.

Healthy churches actively pursue unity by putting on a heart that reflects their identity in Christ.

A change in nature results in a change in behavior.

The church needs to understand their identity is in Christ so that they will focus on the eternal rather than the temporal.

Elders are to lead the church into holiness, through proven character, and by conviction.