Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Humility (Selected Scriptures) John MacArthur
- Andy McIlvain
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Fundamental Christian Attitudes: Humility (Selected Scriptures) John MacArthur
"Before we have our time at the Lord’s Table tonight, I want to continue in our series on the anatomy of the church. We have been saying recently that there are so many new folks in our church as our church continues to grow – and for that we are so grateful to the Lord – so many new folks that perhaps don’t quite understand why we do what we do, and why we do the things the way we do them. And so we’re going back and looking at the anatomy of the church, looking at what are the ingredients, the essential elements, and components, and features of church life; what should a church be. And it’s a timely period in the history of the American church, and probably in the western church in general, because as we’ve been saying, the church is in an identity crisis. It is kind of struggling to figure out what its identity should be.
Some churches are struggling with the substance of that identity, and others are struggling with the style of that identity. We have to go back to the Word of God to understand what are the absolute essentials, and that’s what we’re endeavoring to do. And we’re borrowing the wonderful imagery of the metaphor of the body of Christ, which our Lord gave through the apostle Paul in the New Testament. We’re extending it a little bit to talk about the anatomy of the church. And this is to put us in touch with what we should expect in the church, this church, for that reason, and the reason that it’s the revelation of God, any church. For the reason that this is Christ’s church and not ours, and He has set out to build His own church and has determined it should be built. These then become non-negotiables for the church..." from the Transcript
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