Love in Community
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Devotions: Love in Community
Devotions: Love in Community
Devotion 1: What is Church?
Devotion 1: What is Church?
It is common for people use the word church to mean the building that Christians meet in to worship God. We say things like I am going to the church today or I am meeting in the church. But in the 1st century the Word church did not refer to the
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people and also members of his household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
7 For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another. 8 But God found fault with the people and said:
“The days are coming, declares the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
9 It will not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they did not remain faithful to my covenant,
and I turned away from them,
declares the Lord.
10 This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11 No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
13 By calling this covenant “new,” he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and outdated will soon disappear.
Devotion 2: How do we belong to church?
Devotion 2: How do we belong to church?
Devotion 3: What is the Mission of the Church?
Devotion 3: What is the Mission of the Church?
Devotion 4: Why be committed to a Local Church?
Devotion 4: Why be committed to a Local Church?
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