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Part 8 - Rediscovering God's Church
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Part 8 - Rediscovering God's Church
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- Church Life in it's Most Pure And Biblical Form
- How Do We Apply the Vision of the Church?
- Who are We?
- What Should the Church Look Like?
- Where there is no vision the people cast off restraint (run wild, become demoralized); but happy is he that keepeth the law (the Word) (Prov.29:18).
- The Lord did not leave a handbook on how to practice The Church
- Two items necessary to go on:
- The Spirit
- The Word of God
- But when *he* is come, the Spirit of truth, he shall guide you into all the truth...(Jn.16:13)
- Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path (Psa. 119:105).
- The church is the called out assembly of the Body of Christ
- Two items necessary to go on:
- Where do we assemble?
- In the Temple
- From house to house
- And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house...(Acts 2:46)
- What is a local church?
- The application, practice, and substantiation of the vision of the Body of Christ
- Why do we call ourselves the church in Pittsburgh?
- The church is not so much our name as it is what we are
- And we are here in the city of Pittsburgh
- Complications came in between Peter's ministry and Paul's (Acts 15)
- Studying Paul's experience correlates with our experience of modern Christianity.
- A. Diversity of cultures and backgrounds produced animosity and division among the believers
- Differing practices led to churches becoming divided from one another (Acts 15)
- Rallying around different ministries caused division among the believers (1Cor.1)
- The practical church life should:
- Have Christ as our content
- Have the freedom and authority of the Spirit
- Hold the Word of God as our standard
- Receive all believers, open to all genuine ministries, love all Christians, meet as generic Christians, not holding onto any special practices, ministries or non-essential teachings
- Who We Are
- We are a group of Christians who come from a number of different backgrounds. Our common denominator is a desire to know, love, and follow the living Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. His love has captured us, and in such a love we meet together with a church life according to the New Testament revelation.
- We are families and singles. We are young and old. We are workers at a variety of jobs along with college students. We come from many countries and cherish all races. But with this variety there is a marvelous oneness of the Spirit that we strive to keep.