We recommend a hair dresser. Can we recommend our religion?

1. Can you recommend
your religion?
Dictionary on recommend
put forward (someone or something) with
approval as being suitable for a particular
purpose or role.

2. Introduction
● We recommend all kinds of things – doctor, hair dresser,
car, clothes, tools, kitchen appliances
● We are not shy or bashful to recommend what we know is
good, works, worth the cost
● What about your religion?

3. Recommend because of Scripture
● Worship
– What we do each week
– Why we do these things
– What we do not do in worship
● Plan of Salvation
– What the New Testament teaches
– Why baptism is important

4. Recommend because of Scripture
● Worship
● Plan of Salvation
● Doctrine
– 2 John 9 Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the
doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the
doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son.
– What doctrines are important for salvation?

5. Recommend by the way you live
● James 1:25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty
and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer
of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

6. Recommend by the way you live
● James 1:25
● Matthew 7:24-27 24 "Therefore whoever hears these
sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise
man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain
descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat
on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the
rock. 26 But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine,
and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built
his house on the sand: 27 and the rain descended, the
floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house;
and it fell. And great was its fall."

7. Recommend by the way you live
● James 1:25
● Matthew 7:24-27
● Matthew 7:21 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,'
shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the
will of My Father in heaven.

8. Recommend by the way you live
● James 1:25
● Matthew 7:24-27
● Matthew 7:21
● James 1:26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious,
and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart,
this one's religion is useless.
● Actions speak louder than words

9. Recommend by the way you
support it
● 1 Corinthians 16:1-2 1 Now concerning the collection for
the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of
Galatia, so you must do also: 2 On the first day of the
week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up
as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I
come.

10. Recommend by the way you
support it
● 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
● 2 Corinthians 9:7 So let each one give as he purposes in
his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a
cheerful giver

11. Recommend by the way you
support it
● 1 Corinthians 16:1-2
● 2 Corinthians 9:7
● Hebrews 10:25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one
another, and so much the more as you see the Day
approaching.

12. Recommend by the way it works
for you
● Comfort – 1 Thessalonians 4:18 Therefore comfort one
another with these words.

13. Recommend by the way it works
for you
● Comfort – 1 Thessalonians 4:18
● Joy – Acts 26:28-29 28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You
almost persuade me to become a Christian." 29 And Paul
said, "I would to God that not only you, but also all who
hear me today, might become both almost and altogether
such as I am, except for these chains."

14. Recommend by the way it works
for you
● Comfort – 1 Thessalonians 4:18
● Joy – Acts 26:28-29
● Peace – Romans 5:1-2 1 Therefore, having been justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ, 2 through whom also we have access by faith into
this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.

15. Can you recommend
your religion?
● In light of Scripture
● By the way you live
● By the way you support it
● By the way it works for you