Category: Church & Community
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Why Church Must Be Community (Continued)
What is Necessary to Be Church? Love and Biblical Community How does the Church of Pentecost compare with the America’s understanding and experience of Church? How Early Christians Lived Out Their Understanding of Church How Most American Christians Understand Church & Christianity • Repentance as a Life Reorientation (4) Be Baptized: Surrender to God’s Spirit, more…
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Why Church Must Be Community
The Church and Christian Community are intended by God to Be One and the Same The Church was never intended to be isolated as a meeting, but to be a gathering place together where God’s Word, worship, and service that inspires and cultivates the kind of love that leads people to be a Family of…
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The Church: What is Necessary to Be Church (Continued)?
Membership New Testament (Early Church):Community/Covenant Based Modern American Church:Feeling/Circumstance Based Familial Bonds And now we are brothers and sisters in God’s family because of the blood of Jesus,(Hebrews 10:19) For through him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow…
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Church: Living as “The Body of Christ”
What is the significance of the phrase “Body of Christ?” Many Christians think that it simply means that each individual who is a believer can stand alone as a member of the body of Christ. This is not the Biblical understanding. Although each believer could reveal the body of Christ, this is only possible as…
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The Necessity of Covenant (Continued)
As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.. 1 Peter 2:9-10 (ESV) 9 But you…
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The Meaning and Necessity of Living Love as the New Covenant People of God
Although virtually all Christians acknowledge the New Covenant, the vast majority do not know what that means, or how it is lived out in real life. Fundamentally, Christ’s Covenant (or “Testament” -the Greek/Hebrew word can be translated in both ways) is the Sacred Commitment God made with His People through the Blood of Christ. This…
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The Necessity of Christian Community (Quotes)
To face the future, we must look to the past—to Christ’s preparation of His disciples, and to the early church that met daily in homes for teaching of the apostle’s doctrine, fellowship, worship, and prayer. Certainly, there were leaders, but the emphasis of Acts 2 was community, dynamic community in which all the people were…
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What Does it Mean to Be Church?
What Does it Really Mean to Be Church? A lot of people disdain Church, do not see the need for Church, think they are part of the “invisible” Church so see no need to be connected to a “visible one.” On the other hand, some people love Church, the worship, the preaching, its ministries, but…
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Church Membership In The Early Church
Membership is not to be confused with membership to a club, an organization, or even a spiritual organization. This membership is to God Himself, and His People in the most personal, and supernatural way imaginable. Members become members of Christ and His brethren, covenanting their lives to a specific people, in a specific place, to…
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Big Differences: The Early Church and Today’s Church
The New Testament Church and the Church of Today…There is a Difference. A Big Difference. So how and why is the American so Church feeble, and unable to radiate the Gospel? The following charts will make it clear that the root of her weakness lay in her failure to cultivate a way of life and…