Theology is meant to be lived out; not just learned.DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you…6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.1 Corinthians 5:1-2, 6-8 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.Hebrews 10:24-25WHEN YOU BECAME A CHRISTIAN, YOU SIGNED UP TO BE A DIE-HARD FAN OF THE CHURCHWhether we like it or not, the moment we confess Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, that is, from the time we become a Christian, we are at the same time a member of the Christian church - even if we do not permit our name to be placed on a church roll, even if we refuse to identify ourselves with a particular congregation and share responsibilities with them, even if we absent ourselves from the worship of a congregation. Our membership in the church is a corollary of [connected to] our faith in Christ. We can no more be a Christian and have nothing to do with the church than we can be a person and not be in a family. Membership in the church is a basic spiritual fact for those who confess Christ as Lord. It is not an option for those Christians who happen by nature to be more gregarious than others. It is part of the fabric of redemption.There are Christians, of course, who never put their names down on a membership list; there are Christians who refuse to respond to the call to worship each Sunday; there are Christians who say, “I love God but I hate the church.” But they are members all the same, whether they like it or not, whether they acknowledge it or not. For God never makes private, secret salvation deals with people. His relationships with us are personal, true; intimate, yes; but private, no. We are a family in Christ. When we become Christians, we are among brothers and sisters in faith. No Christian is an only child.Eugene PetersonWHAT IS THE CHURCH?GOD’S FAMILYTherefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,Hebrews 10:9Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.Acts 20:2821 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’Matthew 7:21-235 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.[c]Matthew 7:21-2348 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?” 49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”Matthew 12:48-50But understanding that the Church is the FAMILY OF GOD who shares in the same BLOOD should changes the way we walk through the imperfections of our family.Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.2 Corinthians 13:11“Ideals are often so unrealistic and unattainable, that if you demand them, you’ll bounce from one group to the next to the next, one church to the next to the next, one relationship to the next to the next.”John Mark Comer13  They are planted in the house of the Lord;    they flourish in the courts of our God.14  They still bear fruit in old age;    they are ever full of sap and green,15 to declare that the Lord is upright;    he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.Psalm 92:13-15“By making a vow of stability the monk renounces the vain hope of wandering of to find a ‘perfect monastery [church]’ implies a deep act of faith: the recognition that it does not much matter where we are or whom we live with… All monasteries [churches] are more or less ordinary… its ordinariness is one of its great blessings.”Thomas MertonWHAT MAKES A “GOOD" CHURCH?COMING IN JESUS’ NAMETEACHING GOD’S WORDADMINISTERING SACRAMENTS (Communion and Baptism)MAKING DISCIPLES“Wherever you see the Word of God purely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to Christ’s institution, there, it is not to be doubted, a church of God exists.”John Calvin“Churches can be more pure in some areas and less pure in others - a church may have excellent doctrine and sound preaching, for example, yet be a dismal failure in witness to others or in meaningful worship. But the New Testament encourages us to work for the purity of the church in all of these areas.”Wayne GrudemWHAT IS CHURCH ABOUT?Ministering to God Minister to Believers Minister to the WorldMinister: to serve25 But Jesus called them to him and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 26 It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,[c] 27 and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,[d] 28 even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”Matthew 20:25-28

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