This is a really wonderful day for our church and it's a day that I expect to look back on with much gratitude to the Lord and what happens from this point forward for a long time to come. It was February 11 and 12 last year, 2012, when we first met together as a group of believers in this place and with the crazy idea that we were going start a body of believers here devoted to expository preaching and it's been almost 16 months since that first weekend together and as we've gone through a lot of different teaching, we're kind of testing the waters, we've kind of been sharing together in the joys of worship together and the common salvation that we share together. But today and in the weeks to come, we're going to start to do something that transcends even that in importance and I'm very excited about it because we're starting today to really look at what it means to be a New Testament church and the songs that we've been singing have kind of led us to this point here in the service this morning and we're going to be looking at the blueprint for a young church. I can't tell you how delighted I am that we're able to do this.
It's not very often that you have a chance to pour a pure and a new foundation and to build on a foundation that doesn't carry the weight of a lot of prior history that maybe is good, maybe it's not and so we have an opportunity to do this together and it starts today and it's really wonderful to be able to do this. If there is anything that I could have you kind of approach this with it would this: as we start to unfold these great themes from the New Testament and specifically from the book of Titus...
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Don is the founding pastor of Truth Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees with highest honors from The Master's Seminary.  Â
He had previously served as an elder at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California....
