"ecclesiology" Tagged Teaching (Page 2)

"ecclesiology" Tagged Teaching (Page 2)

Unity Through Diversity

1 Corinthians 12:1-27 Well, we’ve been going through this series on membership and involvement in the local church, and we’ve extended the series just a bit because we want to make sure that we get a good grasp of what God is saying to us through his Word on this very important and extremely practical subject. Just by way of review, I want to get a running start at this just to remind you where we’ve been. We began this…

The Discipline of the Local Church

Selected Scriptures This morning you can open your Bibles to Matthew 18. Can open your Bibles there. You know we ended the time last time there in Matthew 18. We looked at Matthew 16 and Matthew 18, talking about Jesus’ uses of the word church. Two times, two specific times, he addressed the issue of the church, and, recognized and acknowledged both the universal aspects of the church and the local realities of the church of Christ. Basically, we’re talking…

Recovering the Priority of the Local Church

Selected Scriptures We’re continuing our series that we’re calling “Support Your Local Church.”  I’ve been encouraged by the elders to extend this series a bit, so I have done that.  I’m going to expand it just somewhat.  We’re going to keep going on the series.  I was going to cut it off in May, but we’re going to go into the month of June and we’ll come back to Luke’s Gospel after that.  What I want to do this morning…

Communion: The Fellowship of the Church

Selected Scriptures We’re going through a little series that we’re calling Support Your Local Church.  Usually in the pulpit here, we go verse by verse through a passage of Scripture, but we’re breaking from our normal regular study of the Gospel of Luke to address a vital topic—the topic of local church membership, local church involvement.  This is our third week in the series.  We’ve already seen from Scripture the purpose of the local church—that was our first message.  We…

Guardians of the Truth

1 Timothy 3:14-16 As we get into our time around God’s Word this morning, I want to preview what’s coming, not just today, but for the rest of the month. We have about 25 people waiting to enter membership here at Grace Church, and the elders have been working on an update to our whole membership process, our membership application. We’ve got a couple more things to do, but we think we’re just about ready. And we just wanted to…
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