Becoming the Church
We must be the church before we can build the church. We must care for one another before we can hope to reach our neighborhood, this city, the world.
We must be the church before we can build the church. We must care for one another before we can hope to reach our neighborhood, this city, the world.
The wheat will be gathered in God’s barn, but the weeds will be burned.
What makes a great church is great people, great families, and great homes.
The word prepare means: establish, fix, or apply. It conveys the idea of deliberate effort over a prolonged period of time.
Literal obedience to God is indispensable to those who would carry his messages.
1 Corinthians 15:58, ESV
Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain”
John 21:20 – “Peter, turning around, saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; the one who also had leaned back on His bosom at the supper and said, “Lord, who is the one who betrays You?”
David was a great man, but he was guilty of great sin, which infected his home. In 2 Samuel 12:11-13, Nathan confronted David about his sin with Bathsheba.
The passage tells us that Jesus had to pass through Samaria as He was going from Judea to Galilee.