What is the Culture of the Church???

Church-The word church in the Bible comes from the Greek word ecclesia, which means a called out company or assembly. Wherever it is used in the Bible it refers to people. It can be a mob (Acts 19:30-41), the children of Israel (Acts 7:38), and the body of Christ (Ephesians 1:22; Ephesians 5:25, 32).

The church is people!!!!

Called from invited into!!!

Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground." (‭Genesis‬ ‭1‬:‭26-28‬ NIV)

3 Things Make up the Church
He played A Family- He planted a family in the garden. We are called to be a family.
He made us in His Likeness "We were created to host the Presence of God-When Adam breathed his first breath, the first thing he saw was the Face of God!!!
Be fruitful and multiply- Expand the Family!!!

Paul-
It was the House of God- We are the family of God
It was a Bride- Host the presence of the Bridegroom to be in Love!!!
It was a Body- Be the Hands and Feet of Jesus!!! Do the work that Jesus did!!!

The Wineskin or Container Or Family
The Wine is the Presence "Give them a drink"

But Ruth replied, "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me." (‭Ruth‬ ‭1‬:‭16-17‬ NIV)

This covenant relationship set her up for her greatest moment for all of History to David to Jesus!!!

When you find your people, you find your Destiny!!!

Show me who you hang out with and I will tell you your calling!!! The 5 people you hang out with the most is what molds you!!!

Your calling is larger than you!!! It involves people!!! Find your people!!!

You can find a lot of things online, but you will not find family!!! Find your people who will sharpen you, Iron sharpens iron!!!

Then the Lord said to Moses, "Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your descendants.' I will send an angel before you and drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Moses said to the Lord, "You have been telling me, 'Lead these people,' but you have not let me know whom you will send with me. You have said, 'I know you by name and you have found favor with me.'

The Lord replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest." Then Moses said to him, "If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here. (‭Exodus‬ ‭33‬:‭1-2, 12, 14-15‬ NIV)

We host the presence of God!!!

He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. (‭Mark‬ ‭16‬:‭15‬ NIV)

"Our Father" the family, not my father, but our!! All of creation is groaning and moaning for the Sons and Daughters of God!!!

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