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I Love The Church by Robert Tisdale

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Channel: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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There's nothing like the church. cclesiology is the study of the church.  The New Testament church began at Pentecost in Acts 2.  This is often referred to as the Church Age. The definition for a church is a group that meets regularly (Hebrews 10:24-25) under organized leadership (Hebrews 13:17-18) and practices the purposes that are seen in the early church in Acts 2:42-47.  There are many different churches out there today with all kinds of different practices.  The Bible gives many words about the church and things that need to be part of a church according to Scripture.  Whenever we look at words about the church in the New Testament we need to be careful in our evaluation.  What I mean by this is that there are 2 types of passages about the church. The first is when the church is described in “prescriptive terms.”  This means that these are things that God says need to be part of the church.  Baptism and observance of the Lord’s Supper would fall into this category.  The second type of passages are “descriptive” passages about the church.  These are passages that merely describe what the church did but we are not necessarily commanded to do the same.  Cultural passages such as women wearing head coverings would fall into this category.  It is important that we understand what God teaches us about the church so that we (the people) can “be” the church.  Consider the following…

Acts 1:38, 41-42 Repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.  And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Verses About The Church
Mark 16:15-20 And He said unto them, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, He was received up into Heaven, and sat at the right hand of God. And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the Word with signs following. Amen.

Ephesians 2:19-22 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the  apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being  the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Ephesians 5:23, 25 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior… Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

1 Timothy 3:15 if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

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