Posts with the category “church”

What is the benefit of membership with a local body of believers in Christ, known as the church? Is there a need for a faithfulness and commitment to the other members in the Lord? What are the detail...  Read More

“Everything rises and falls on leadership!”God-given and God-endowed leadership is key to the development, care,  and growth of the body of Christ in any given locality. God has intentionally placed P...  Read More

“Saved by His power divine, saved to new life sublime, life now is sweet, and my joy is complete, for I’m saved, saved, saved!”To know the truth of salvation found in Jesus, who alone can save us from...  Read More

What a privilege we have been given of God to have His written Word (2 Timothy 3:16)! In addition, as believers in the Lord Jesus, we have been endowed with the Holy Spirit who is there to guide us in...  Read More

The demands Christ has placed upon His Church are not at all burdensome. They are a blessing and a joy! There are two and only two ordinances or symbolic acts that are prescribed for the church to car...  Read More

Approaching God in the Old Testament times, to any degree, was reserved for a chosen few from a special line. It was also a very tenuous and scary proposition that was not entered into lightly, but re...  Read More

Did you know??? Church is very important to God! Of course you did, for you aren’t like so many today that have no church affiliation (“nones”), and who say that it is not imperative that one go to ch...  Read More

All of us have been to a place or had a person that brings disrepute upon the name or title that they bear. For instance, I know many people in town that feel that one Hospital or another has discredi...  Read More

  Church, what do you think of it? Is it important to you? How important is church to you? Better yet, is it important to God? Why is it so important to God and Christ? Out of the prior questions aris...  Read More

During our time away over the course of the last five months of 2023, it was so encouraging and refreshing to see some young men, both at the church in Indiana and then at our home church, so committe...  Read More

The call of God upon a life for full-time vocational ministry is an irrefutable and insatiable inward desire brought on by the Spirit through His Word to serve the Lord wherever and however He would d...  Read More

The church in its local form and functioning, on Sundays and Wednesdays, takes the people of God coming together and apart from their everyday activities both willingly and regularly for the sake of r...  Read More

Wow! What a wonderful Lord and Savior who would allow us to become a part with Him in what He is doing in the world. Upon the Solid Rock we stand!No other foundation can any man lay, than that which i...  Read More

Christ himself said that He would build His church and the gates of hell would not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18). It is inevitable that the church will continue to march forward as an unstoppable...  Read More

 Christ is the head of the church, and we as a part of His body must, of necessity, submit to His will and seek His direction. What does he desire for His church? What is His mind? Even a quick readin...  Read More

Satan wants nothing more than to destroy a local assembly of believers. His schemes and tactics include diversions (using family, fun or future advancements), divisions (factions by personality differ...  Read More

Can you be a Christian and not attend a local church? Certainly, attending church does not make anyone a Christian, but a true Christian will, most certainly, desire and enjoy the fellowship of other ...  Read More

"Commitment" has become a dirty word - something that would limit my freedom or cramp my lifestyle. It could obligate me to some duty, and may mean sacrifice of other things in life. God, my gifts, an...  Read More

Each and every one of the believers having been made priests of God by faith in our great High Priest, Jesus Christ, who has passed into the heavens, are so very privileged. To have the title of a pri...  Read More

How would you characterize the church at large?  It would appear that the church, for most part, has been lulled to sleep. There has been a numbing effect as the church is desensitized to evil. Things...  Read More