The Communion of Saints (Live Stream 3/22/20)
Ephesians 4:11-16
"Isolation is a certain danger and involves inevitable weakness. While we are justified in relation to Christ solitarily and alone, we are sanctified in connection with other Christians, and we shall never know what it is to be a 'saint' unless we make much of 'the communion of saints.'”
1 Corinthians 1:9
John 17:5
John 17:24
KOINONA- "fellowship, close-knit partnership, participation, contribution."
Acts 2:41-47
Matthew 28:18-20
Romans 1:9-12
Hebrews 10:19-25
Q: How do we practice koinonia in our present situation?
1. Every day is a stewardship of time that God has given us. We now have enough time to pray!
2. Share the live stream with those believers who don't have internet access.
(Maybe even unbelievers would be willing to come and listen)
3. Reach out! Phone calls, e-mail, snail mail, Facebook. All of these are avenues that we can use to encourage others!
Share Scripture and Prayer Requests with one another.
This is what it looks like to Love People to LIFE in Christ.
The Church - The Building Up of the Body 8: Wisdom & Foolishness Part 4
1 Corinthians 1
The Church - The Building Up of the Body 7: Wisdom & Foolishness Part 3
1 Corinthians 1
“The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.”
-Carl Sagan
"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world."
-Richard Dawkins
"If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed. If you like, you can say the laws are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence."
-Stephen Hawking
The Church - Building Up the Body 6: Wisdom & Foolishness Part 2
1 Corinthians 1:1-17
Colossians 1:16-20
The Church - Building Up the Body 5: Wisdom & Foolishness Part 1
1 Corinthians 1
John 1:10-12
The Church - Building Up the Body 4: "Worth & Value"
Romans 8:6-8
“There are Christians that begin with the Spirit, but end with the flesh. They are converted, born again through the Spirit, but fall unconsciously into a life in which they endeavor to overcome sin and be holy through their own exertion, through doing their best. They ask God to help them in these their endeavors, and think that this is faith. They do not understand what it is to say: ‘In me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing,’ and that therefore they are to cease from their own endeavors, in order to do God’s will, wholly and only through the Spirit.”
Andrew Murray, The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ (New York: Hurst & Company, 1891), 119–120.
Proverbs 1:7
John 17:3
Jeremiah 9:23-24
Isaiah 6:5
Isaiah 64:5-6
The Image of God (Guest Speaker)
The Church - Building Up the Body 3: The Ancient Principle
Titus
Colossians 3:1-4
Ephesians 1
Gal 2:20
The Church - Building Up the Body 2: The Ancient Principle (Cont.)
James 1:21-25
Matthew 5-7