9 Part Series on the Church (God's Eternal Purpose Eph. 3:10-11)

Ephesians 3:10-11 10 In order that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the church, 11 According to the eternal purpose which He made in Christ Jesus our Lord A 9 part series that focuses on God's Eternal Purpose: His Church!

Part 1 - Stepping Into Eternity

Part 1 - Stepping into Eternity
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• The multifarious wisdom might be made known through the church, according to the eternal purpose—Ephesians 3:10-11
• If we could step into eternity with God, what would He tell us?
  • To find out, we need to ask about these words:
    • Ephesians 3:9
      • To enlighten all that they may see what the economy of the mystery is, which has been hidden in God, Who created all things
    • Ephesians 3:10
      • In order that NOW to the rulers and authorities in the heavenlies the multifarious wisdom of God might be made known through the Church
    • Ephesians 3:11
      • According to the eternal purpose
    • Ephesians 3:9-11 summarized
      • There is a mystery that historically has been hidden in God
      • The church is the manifestation of this hidden mystery
      • This is God's eternal purpose
• If we could step into "God's shoes"
  • He would tell us about the church
    • Ephesians 5 Explains this eternal purpose:
      • His pleasure
      • His heart's desire
      • The apple of His eye
      • His eternal counterpart
    • Christ loved her and so He died for her
    • Christ sanctifies the church, cleansing her by the washing of the water in the word
• The Bible's Theme: Christ and the Church
  • Portrayed 4 Women
    • EVE
      • The Wife of Adam
      • The church comes out of Christ, is the counterpart of Christ and becomes the fullness of Christ
      • The church is produced through the death and resurrection of Christ
    • The Bride of Christ, The New Testament Church
      • The Church is loved by Christ
      • The Church is cherished by Christ
      • The Church is glorious in the eyes of Christ
    • The Woman (Rev. 12)
      • At the end of this age
      • The church at the end of this age gives birth to the manchild, the overcomers;
      • She defeat the enemy to prepare for Christ's second coming
    • The Wife of the Lamb
      • For Eternity
      • The wife that has made herself ready
      • The New Jerusalem, the city of God, united with Christ for eternity

• What is Christianity to you today?

  • An obligation on Sunday mornings?
    • A Seeking of personal growth in Christ and a daily devotion in His word?
    • Fits your social status
    • Has many in your age category
    • Identifies with your culture
    • Matches with what you are used to
    • With a music/preaching/meeting style that makes you comfortable
    • Agrees with your doctrines
    • With ministries that care for your hardships and personal struggles
    • With ministries that care for your children, parents, spouse, etc.
    • With ministries that help you succeed in the world
    • With ministries that uplift the soul to carry you through another week
    • Attracting large numbers
    • Organizing charitable events
  • NO!
    • Put yourself in God's Shoes

• Step into Eternity
  • Rediscover God's Church
    • The Bride of Christ

Part 2 - Unveiling the Eternal Blueprint

Part 2 - Unveiling the Eternal Blueprint
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• Paul's Vision
• Paul's Work
• Where Did He Get All This?
• The Blueprint
• God's Eternal Purpose in Genesis
  • Let Us make man in Our Image and after Our Likeness
    • Image
  • Let them have dominion over all the earth
    • Dominion
• Old Testament Pictures of the Church

  • Adam and Eve
  • Abraham -> Israel
  • The Tabernacle
  • "You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagle's wings and brought you to Myself..."
  • "Now therefore if you will indeed obey My voice and keep my covenant, then you shall be My personal treasure from among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine." (Exo. 19:4-5)

• Christ

  • He is the center and focus of the church
  • Christ is the grace, power, speaking, and leading of the church
  • All we say and do in the church should lead people to Christ

• The Church

  • The expression of Christ
  • The door to Christ
  • Dispensing Christ as food and light

• Our Vision
• New Testament Reality
• Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, Who do men say that the Son of Man is?

  • And they said, Some, John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.
  • He said to them, But you, who do you say that I am?
  • And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
  • And Jesus answered and said to him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in the heavens.
  • And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
  • I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of the heavens, and whatever you bind on the earth shall have been bound in the heavens, and whatever you loose on the earth shall have been loosed in the heavens. (Matt. 16:13-19)

• The Lord's Person
• His Heart's Desire

  • And the glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, even as We are one;
  • I in them, and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one, that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me. (John 17:22-23)

Part 3 - Laying Foundation of the New Testament Church

Part 3 - Laying Foundation of the New Testament Church
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• Ephesians 2
  • Picture of Fallen Humanity
    • That you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the promise of the covenant, having no hope and without God.
    • But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ.
• Christ's Solution:

  • Makes us members of God's household
  • And fellow citizens with the saints (19)
  • Being built and fitted together on the foundation...Christ Jesus Himself being the cornerstone... into a dwelling place of God in spirit (20-22)

• Abolition of Divisive Enmity

  • Differences lead to enmity
    • Laws and ordinances
    • Rituals & spiritual practices
    • Race & culture, age, gender, social class, political preference, ministry, music, books, bible versions, clothing style, preaching styles, praying styles, association or lack of, etc. etc.

• Issue of Offenses (1)

  • Starting arguments.
  • Spreading gossip.
  • Creating cliques.
  • Carrying grudges.
  • Backstabbing.
  • Deliberately undermining those in authority.
  • Pitting one person off against another.
  • Lying.

• Issue of Offenses (2)

  • Setting up rules in order to create social barriers.
  • Being a racist or sexist or elitist.
  • Giving orders and demanding obedience.
  • Using principles (or even 'righteous' anger) as an excuse to cut off contact.
  • Personalizing a political dispute.
  • Raising the stakes in disputes.
  • Having an 'I win, you lose' attitude.
  • Acting without concern about how it affects others.

• Man's Solution - End Results

  • Avoidance
  • Accommodation
  • Competition
  • Compromise


• God's Solution

  • Collaboration & Reconciliation
    • Lord's admonishing (Matt 5:22-24)
    • Paul's example

• (I Cor 3 : 5-9 )

  • "To reconcile is to restore to friendship or harmony, to settle or resolve differences."

• Two Natures

  • Our Evil Nature
    • Starting arguments
    • Spreading gossip
    • Creating cliques
    • Carrying grudges
    • Backstabbing
  • Our Aspiration to Do Good
    • Politics
    • Religious zeal
    • Insistence on practices
    • Division
    • Hatred

• But We Have Died...

  • Our Evil Nature
    • Starting arguments
    • Spreading gossip
    • Creating cliques
    • Carrying grudges
    • Backstabbing
  • Our Aspiration to Do Good
    • Politics
    • Religious zeal
    • Insistence on practices
    • Division
    • Hatred

• Moses Went UP

  • Moses was called into God's presence on Mt. Sinai
    • "Moses... and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself. ...they saw God, and they ate and drank."
    • "Moses... stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights."

• Blueprint Given on Mt. Sinai

  • Moses received blueprint for building tabernacle on mountain top.
    • Lord to Moses: "Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you."

• Stephen Looked UP

  • "The Grecian Jews...complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food."
  • 7 were chosen for food service
  • No record of what Stephen did, but...
  • Stephen was "full of the Spirit and wisdom...full of grace & power"

• Stephen Looked UP

  • "...being full of the Holy Spirit, he looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God."

• We Need to Grow UP

  • "Out from whom all the body, being joined together and being knit together through every joint of the rich supply and through the operation in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the Body unto the building up of itself in love." (Eph 4:16)
  • "But holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the Head, Christ." (4:15)

• But to Go UP
• We Must First Go DOWN

  • "If we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him." (Rom 6:8)
  • When was the last time I knelt down to pray?
  • When was the last time I laid down my soul life according to the inner-anointing:
    • opinions,
    • "my-way-or-the-highway" insistence, and
    • evil as well as good intentions?

• Know Christ & Know Ourselves

  • To build the church, our old man must die.
  • "And might reconcile both in one Body to God through the cross, having slain enmity by it." (Eph 2:16)
  • "In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit." (Eph 2:22)

Part 4 - The Spawning of the New Testament Church

Part 4 - The Spawning of the New Testament Church
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• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • Underlying Principle of our study of the church
  • The Scriptures
    • Satan's strategy: Distract us from the plain a simple Word of God
  • The Vision of the Church in God's Word
  • 2 Important Old Testament Passages
    • Genesis 1:26-28 Birds-eye view
    • Exodus Chapters 26-40 The tabernacle
• The Vision of the Church in God's Word
  • 2 important references by Jesus
  • The Mountain Retreat
    • Matthew 16 Jesus explains the building of the church
  • One of Jesus' final prayers
    • John 17 Jesus asks the Father for oneness among the believers
  • The Vision of the Church in God's Word
  • 4 Important New Testament Passages
    • The Apostle Paul
    • Ephesians 3 & 5 The eternal purpose, the bride of Christ
    • Ephesians 2 Christ's death
    • 1 Corinthians 12:13 Christ's resurrection and ascension
• Church Vision Applied in the New Testament

  • Acts 1-9

  • Description of the early church life
    • It's probably not what you think
    • It probably has few similarities to what we practice today
    • So, before we make up our mind as to what the church life should look like, we better take an honest look at the Bible
• Church Vision Applied in the New Testament

  • Ephesians 4

  • Teaching Church Practice
    • Paul describes the building Jesus' spoke of in Matthew 16
    • Paul expounds on the oneness of the church that Jesus prayed for in John 17
• Church Vision Applied in the New Testament

  • 1 Corinthians 12 (& 14)

  • Teaching Church Practice
    • Ministry and gifts
    • Oneness and coordination
    • Edifying meetings
• Church Vision Applied in the New Testament

  • Acts 10-20

  • Parallels to modern Christianity
    • Ministry and gifts
    • Oneness and coordination
    • Edifying meetings
• Let's Talk About Pittsburgh

  • A testimony, gospel, and witness to this city
  • A life-style
  • A spiritual home life
  • Joyful and edifying meetings
  • An environment of healthy growth in the divine life, development of spiritual function, and an uplifting of humanity

• Rediscovering God's Church
• The Spawning of the New Testament Church
  • 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • There was no church in the Old Testament
    • Just a blueprint
  • There was no church during Christ's earthly ministry
    • Just a promise
    • And a prayer

• The Church into existence through:

  • The death of Christ (Ephesians 2)
  • The resurrection and ascension of Christ (1 Cor. 12:13)

• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit
  • Baptized into the Spirit
    • Initiating a new era
    • This baptism occurred firstly on the day of Pentecost to the Jews
  • "And there appeared to them tongues of fire ... and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit ..." Acts 2:3-4
    • And secondly at the house of Cornelius to the Gentiles
  • Baptized into the Spirit
    • Initiating a new era
    • The baptism of the Spirit changed the world
    • The non-church age became the age of the church
    • The blueprint became a reality
• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit
  • Baptized into the Body of Christ
    • Inheriting a new life-style
    • Those alienated and far off became fellow citizens of the saints (Ephesians 2:11-12, 19)
    • The lonely strangers became members of a loving family (Ephesians 2:19)
  • Baptized into the Body of Christ
    • Inheriting a new life-style
    • Those who once were haunted by demons (addictions, lusts, temper, etc) became a temple of God (Ephesians 2:22)
    • Those dwelling in darkness became the light of the world (Matthew 4:14-16)
    • Once having a purposeless existence, but now a part of the bride being prepared for her husband (Ephesians 3:11; 5:32; Rev2elation 21:)
• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit
  • Drinking of the Spirit
    • Experiencing a new reality
    • The Spirit is the reality of Christ and the work of Christ
  • "But when He, the Spirit of reality comes, He will guide you into all the reality ... All that the Father has is Mine ... He receives of Mine and will declare it to you." John 16:13, 15.
    • The church is not our talk, but our experience. It is real.
    • The church is not our doctrine, it is our daily reality
    • The church is not merely our stand, it is our experience
• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit
• Oneness

  • Entering into a divine existence
  • Paul deliberately emphasizes the word, "one," in this verse
  • The era of the church is the era of the oneness of the human race
  • It is not man-made—it is the divine oneness that Jesus prayed about in John 17, a oneness created by the Trinity
  • So in Ephesians 4:3, Paul exhorts us to "keep" the oneness of the Spirit.
  • Oneness is a fact! Believe it and receive it!

• 1 Corinthians 12:13
  • For also in one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all given to drink one Spirit

Part 5 - Church Practices, New Testament Style - The Facts in Acts

Part 5 - Church Practices, New Testament Style - The Facts in Acts
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• Speaking to the Disciples the Things concerning the Kingdom of God V.3
• Charging Them to Wait for the Baptism in the Holy Spirit vv.4-8

  • And as He met together with them, He charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, ...(V.4)
  • But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth (V. 8)

• Meetings:
  • Teaching and fellowship meetings (by the apostles)
  • Home gatherings (Acts 2:46; 5:42)
    • Held from house to house
    • Daily
    • Accompanied by food
    • In simplicity of heart
    • With one accord
  • And day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from house to house, they partook of their food with exultation and simplicity of heart (2:46),
• And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and announcing the gospel of Jesus as the Christ (5:42).
  • To:
    • Speak the gospel to friends
    • Review and fellowship the apostles' fellowship and teaching
    • Break bread (Lord's table?)
    • Pray (Acts 1)
  • Temple gatherings (2:46; 5:42)
    • Daily
    • Healings (3:1-10)
    • Preaching the gospel and teaching (Acts 5:20-25, 42)


• Prayer meetings
  • Church prayer (2:42; 4:24)
  • Apostles' prayer (6:4)
• Gospel Outreach:
  • By the Spirit
  • Preaching Christ and the work of Christ
  • Through:
    • Speaking in the tongues of the people
    • Open air preaching at the temple
    • Apostles' visitation to the homes (5:42)
    • Having favor among the outsiders (2:47)
    • On a chariot
    • Through signs and wonders
  • People were exhorted to be saved by:
    • Repentance
    • Calling on the name of the Lord
    • Being baptized
  • Gospel reports
    • People saved daily
    • Numbers reported
  • Practical Dealings
    • Communal living (2:43-44)
    • Church discipline
    • Widows cared for
    • One accord
  • Offices
    • Apostles
      • Spend time and prayer and ministry of the Church
      • Teaching & fellowship of the truth
      • Open air preaching
    • Deacons
      • Requirements: full of the Spirit and wisdom
      • Appointed to meet the needs of the widows
  • Appearance to Outsiders
    • The ones that overturned the world
    • The way (9:31)
    • Christians (13)

Part 6 - Advanced Church Practice - Paul's Vision of the Body of Christ

Part 6 - Advanced Church Practice - Paul's Vision of the Body of Christ
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• Jesus' Prayer for Oneness
  • "That they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected into one.."
    • John 17
• Jesus' Prophecy to Build His Church
  • "Upon this rock I will build My church"
    • Matthew 16
• Eph 4:1-6
  • I THEREFORE, the prisoner of the Lord, appeal to and beg you to lead a life worthy of the divine calling to which you have been called
  • With complete lowliness of mind and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another and making allowances because you love one another.
  • Be eager and strive earnestly to guard and keep the harmony and oneness of the Spirit in the binding power of peace:
• One body and one Spirit--just as there is also one hope to the calling you received--
• One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
• One God and Father of all, Who is above all, through all and in all.
• Oneness
  • Keep the oneness
  • You cannot make oneness
  • The oneness is just the Triune God
  • Lived out in lowliness of mind and love
  • We lose the oneness if we focus on
    • Teachings
    • Practices
    • Ministers
• Eph. 4: 7,11
  • But grace was given to each of us individually in proportion to the measure of Christ's gift.
  • And His gifts were varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us-- some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some shepherds and teachers.
• Eph. 4:12-13
  • His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints, that they should do the work of ministry, unto the building up Christ's body,
  • Until we all attain at the oneness of the faith and of the full knowledge of the Son of God, at a full grown man-- the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ.
• Building
  • Depends on diversity
  • Each member, uniquely operating, builds the Body of Christ
• Oneness in Diversity
  • Over 200 distinct cell types in the human body
  • Yet the body is one
  • They all start off as STEM CELLS
  • But they all become different
• The Same With the Body of Christ
  • We all start off the same
  • Yet we should grow to become different
• Conformity is Not Oneness
  • A video example...
• Who You Are
• God's Plan
• Balanced View
  • When the focus is God....
    • Everything is One
    • When we lose that focus division
  • When the focus is the believers....
    • Everything is diverse
    • When we lose that diversity conformity
• He gave some as...
• Gifts...
• THE SAINTS
• Unto the work of...
• Unto the building up of...
• "ministry churches"
• THE CHURCH
  • Eph. 4:15-16
    • But, holding to truth in love, we may grow up into Him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:
  • Out from whom the whole body, joined together, and connected by every joint of the rich supply, according to working in the measure of each one part, causes the growth of the body to the building up of itself in love.
• "I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH"
  • Not "I will build my ministry"
  • The ministry is for the church
  • The church is not for the ministry
• Our Goal
  • Help every saint minister according to their God given grace
  • Immersed in the atmosphere of love for the building of His church in oneness

Part 7 - Oneness through Diversification for the Building Up of the Body

Part 7 - Oneness through Diversification for the Building Up of the Body
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• "For even as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ." (1 Corinthians 12:12)
• Maturity in life should lead to differences
• The fruit is all different

• Oneness and Building Manifest Gifts, Ministry, and Operation (Function)
  • Oneness
  • Building
  • Gifts
  • Ministry
  • Operation
• The Principle
  • "Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed; and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord! Except in the Holy Spirit.
  • But there are distinctions of gifts, but the same Spirit; And there are distinctions of ministries, yet the same Lord; And there are distinctions of operations, but the same God, who operates all things in all" (1 Corinthians 12:3-6)
• Speaking
  • Calling on the name of the Lord makes us one with the person of Christ. So also in any kind of prophesying when one speaks for God or speaks forth God as a minister of Christ, one does so by being in the person of Christ.
• Different Ministries
• Ministry
  • Ministry in Ephesians 4 is not related to the gifted ones
  • But to the ministries of each member of the Body
  • "And He Himself gave some (gifts)....for the perfecting of the saints...unto the work of ministry" (4:11-12)
• Operating in and by means of the Holy Spirit
  • "I am crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me.
  • And the life that I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me." (Gal. 2:20)
  • Every operation must be inspired by the Spirit, be an impartation of the Spirit, and result in spiritual building up of the Body.
• Three Levels of Function
  • Distinct Gifts
  • Distinct Ministries
  • Distinct Operations

• So...
  • what has God given to you to carry out in the local church He has placed you in...
  • or are you running wild without substantiating this vision?
  • But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable.
  • For to one through the Spirit a word of wisdom is given, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
  • To a different one faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing in the one Spirit,
  • And to another operations of works of power, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits; to a different one various kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues. (1 Cor. 12:7-10)
• Examples of Gifts
  • Word of Wisdom
  • Word of Knowledge
  • Faith
  • Healing
  • Power
  • Prophecy
  • Discerning
  • Tongues
• Oneness through Diversification
• Crucial Attitudes in the Body
  • Not honoring one's distinct portion
    • If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, it is not that because of this it is not of the body. (v 15)
• Crucial Attitudes in the Body
  • Despising other's portions
    • And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. (v 21)
• Crucial Attitudes in the Body
  • Mutual Care for One another
    • That there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same care for one another (v 25)

Part 8 - Rediscovering God's Church

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
• 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.

Part 9 - Gifts for the Church

Part 9 - Gifts for the Church
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