Last week, in our continuation of the series on the Church, we began to look at the make-up of a church…how a church is to be structured and how it is to fulfill its mission and calling within that structure. We read, in Eph 4:11ff, that God had raised up and anointed certain men as…
Last week we looked at the mission of the Church and found that it was relatively simple in concept but complex in implementation. Our calling…our mission…is fundamentally twofold; to be holy as God is holy and to live and act in such a way as to bring Him glory. We saw last week that our…
Welcome back to our ongoing study about the Church. To this point, we have talked about the Master of the Church, the Majesty of the Church, the Mystery of the Church, and the Metaphors of the Church. This week, we will be looking at the Mission…the calling…of the Church. A good place to start our…
Good evening. Welcome back to our continued study in God’s Word and our examination of the Metaphors of the Church. Last week we spent our time together looking at the metaphor of the Church as Christ’s Body and Jesus as its Head. We looked at our interdependence and the fact that we all have…
Good evening. Welcome back to our time of study for this week. We are continuing on in our study of the nature and practice of the Church. Up to this point, we have looked at the Majesty of the Church, the Master of the Church, and the Mystery of the Church. You may have detected…
Good evening, folks, thanks for joining me again to open God’s Word together. This evening, it is my pleasure to continue in our study of the nature and practice of the Church. In our first week, we explored the Majesty of the Church, and saw that it flows out of the majesty of God Himself,…
Last week, in our first week of exploring the nature and practice of the Church, we spent our time together looking at the Majesty of the Church and, while we often can feel fairly “un-majestic”, we saw that our majesty is rooted in God’s view of us… not in our own. In His calling us…
