This document discusses the origins and teachings of Christianity. It describes Jesus Christ as the founder and cornerstone of the Christian church. Key aspects of Christian faith and practice are outlined, including worship, communion, prayer, singing, giving, and Scripture reading. The document emphasizes that Christians should love one another as Jesus loved them, and cites passages showing friendship and unity among believers regardless of background.

3. John 1:1-3
1 In the beginning was the
Word, and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with
God.

4. John 1:1-3
3 All things were made
through him, and without him
was not any thing made that
was made.

5. Genesis 1:26-28
26 Then God said, “Let us make
man in our image, after our
likeness.

6. Genesis 1:26-28
26 And let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the heavens
and over the livestock and
over all the earth and over
every creeping thing that
creeps on the earth.”

7. Genesis 1:26-28
27 So God created man in his
own image, in the image of
God he created him; male and
female he created them.

8. Genesis 1:26-28
28 And God blessed them. And God
said to them, “Be fruitful and
multiply and fill the earth and
subdue it and have dominion over
the fish of the sea and over the
birds of the heavens and over
every living thing that moves on
the earth.”

9. Matthew 16:18-19
18 And I tell you, you are Peter,
and on this rock I will build my
church, and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.

10. Matthew 16:18-19
19 I will give you the keys of the
kingdom of heaven, and
whatever you bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven, and
whatever you loose on earth
shall be loosed in heaven.”

11. Romans 16:16
16 . . . All the churches of Christ
greet you.

12. JESUS
• Builder
• Foundation
• Corner Stone
• Head
• Purchased

13. John 17:20-21
20 “I do not ask for these only,
but also for those who will
believe in me through their
word,

14. John 17:20-21
21 that they may all be one, just
as you, Father, are in me, and
I in you, that they also may be
in us, so that the world may
believe that you have sent me.

16. Organization
• Headquarters
• Creed
• Elders, Pastors/shepherds,
Bishops
• Preachers, Teachers, Members

17. Acts 14:23
23 And when they had
appointed elders for them
in every church, . . .

18. Worship
• Communion

19. Acts 20:7
7 On the first day of the week,
when we were gathered
together to break bread,
Paul talked with them,
intending to depart on the next
day, and he prolonged his
speech until midnight.

20. Worship
• Communion
• Public Prayer

21. 1 Timothy 2:8
8 I desire then that in every
place the men should pray,
lifting holy hands without
anger or quarreling;

22. Worship
• Communion
• Public Prayer
• Singing praise to God.

23. Colossians 3:16
16 Let the word of Christ dwell in
you richly, teaching and
admonishing one another in all
wisdom, singing psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs,
with thankfulness in your
hearts to God.

24. Worship
• Communion
• Public Prayer
• Singing praise to God.
• Giving

25. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
1 Now concerning the collection
for the saints: as I directed the
churches of Galatia, so you
also are to do.

26. 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
2 On the first day of every week,
each of you is to put
something aside and store it
up, as he may prosper, so that
there will be no collecting
when I come.

27. Worship
• Communion
• Public Prayer
• Singing praise to God.
• Giving
• Reading Scripture

28. 1 Timothy 4:13
13 Until I come, devote
yourself to the public
reading of Scripture,
to exhortation, to
teaching.

29. John 15:9-15

30. John 15:9-15
9 As the Father has loved
me, so have I loved you.
Abide in my love.

31. John 15:9-15
10 If you keep my
commandments, you will
abide in my love, just as I
have kept my Father’s
commandments and abide
in his love.

32. John 15:9-15
11 These things I have spoken to
you, that my joy may be in
you, and that your joy may be
full. 12 “This is my
commandment, that you love
one another as I have loved
you.

33. John 15:9-15
13 Greater love has no one than
this, that someone lay down
his life for his friends. 14 You
are my friends if you do what I
command you.

34. John 15:9-15
15 No longer do I call you
servants, for the servant does
not know what his master is
doing; but I have called you
friends, for all that I have
heard from my Father I have
made known to you.

35. AN EXAMPLE
OF FRIENDSHIP
Galatians 6:1-10

37. Galatians 3:26-28
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all
sons of God, through faith.
27 For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put
on Christ.

38. Galatians 3:26-28
26 for in Christ Jesus you are all
sons of God, through faith.
27 For as many of you as
were baptized into Christ
have put on Christ.

39. Galatians 3:26-28
28 There is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither slave
nor free, there is no male and
female, for you are all one in
Christ Jesus.

41. Proverbs 17:17
17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for
adversity.