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The Church is Unified
“The Church is Unified”
“The Church is Visible and Invisible”
“The Church is Holy”
The Church is Marked by Doctrine”
THE ROLE AND PURPOSE OF CHURCH IN THE COMMUNITY
Huffington Post -
The role of the modern church in the life of the 21st-century believer is critical because it fills a void only the church can.
If a car needs fixing, it is brought to the mechanic shop.
If someone is sick, the health center or hospital is the best place to seek medical attention.
Church is where people should go if they are in need of a “spiritual fix.”
The church is really a hospital for sinners and not an exclusive club for saints.
So why would someone want to attend church?
Regardless of what is said about churches, people expect that their life problems can be addressed in some fashion or form.
With all the weight and pressures of their world weighing down on their minds, people expect the church to provide Bible-based answers that no other institution can provide.
People need to have their spiritual, emotional and physical needs met.
We are living in a crazy world today.
helps me put this in perspective, “but know this, that in the last days perilous times will come.”
I’ll take the liberty to say that perilous times are here.
More and more children are growing up in broken homes, unemployment is on the rise and Christians are sinking deeper into debt like never before.
Many churchgoers are struggling to make ends meet in their everyday lives, and we feel the pinch of reality just like everyone else.
Believers are not exempt from trials of the world.
We are living in perilous and drastic times.
Big Idea:
TRADITIONAL STRUGGLES WITH UNITY IN THE CHURCH
Jews - Gentiles
Protestant - Catholic
Reformed - Non - Reformed
Ephesians 4:1-16
The goal now is to be patient with each other and bear with one another in love (v.
2).
The call to unity is the summons to show in relational practice what is already true in spiritual reality.
ILLUSTRATION
According to John Powell (author, Why Am I Afraid to Tell You Who I Am) there are five levels of communication.
Level One: Clichés.
This is the most superficial level.
It’s a hi-ho-are-you type of conversation that is entirely social in nature.
Level Two: Facts and Reports.
This level exchanges only external information.
It is safe conversation that ranges from the weather to who-won-the-game to the nightly new.
Level Three: Opinions and Judgments.
This is the first level to scratch below the surface and reveal something of ourselves.
On this lever, words like “ought” and “should” and “like” and “dislike” come out of hiding to reveal our convictions.
Level Four: Feelings.
This is the level that reveals our emotions, a level most people seldom penetrate.
“I feel sad” or “I’m afraid” or “I am angry” are all examples of level four communication.
Level Five: Maximum Truth.
This deepest level speaks truth in its most open and candid form.
Maximum truth includes affirmations, confrontation, confession, forgiveness, the sharing of dreams and disillusions, and the telling and keeping of secrets.
Level Five describes how God has communicated to us.
God's word offers us affirmations, confronts sin, call us to confession, and expresses His will for every believer.
As Christians, we should aspire to “level five” communication--“Maximum Truth."
The spiritual reality on which relational unity is based is described in seven parts: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.
Paul wants the Jews and Gentile Christians in Ephesus to get along because, despite their historic, ethnic, and cultural differences, they have these deep spiritual realities in common.
PREFERENCE - TRADITION - ESSENTIAL
IMPLICATIONS OF ONENESS
Denominational Distinctives
Doctrine of inherency - there is no mandate in scripture to have unity with those who do not share the same basic elements of our faith.
(mormonism, Unitarian, )
Organism vs. Organization - true bond that exists
True Church - “all others outside our group are deceived, those who believe their’s is the only true church.”
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The Foundation of Unity
Both the household and the Temple rest on one uniting foundation which is Jesus Christ.
Unity is only Spiritual - The invisible church is one - the visible church will always fall short.
Spiritual unity is the responsibility of every believer.
(there is not unity without a shared allegiance to Christ and our faith)
WHAT CORE DOCTRINES CONSTITUTE OUR FAITH?
Ecumenical creeds, shared understanding of scripture, justification, resurrection, atonement, basic Christian morality, the trinity....
It is important what you Believe, because what you believe determines how you behave!
“Our Walk”
Worthy of your Calling - Put off the Grave clothes - Walk in Harmony and Victory.
Dialogue with other Christian traditions is valuable only so long as we don’t forget that genuine unity is grounded in the gospel.
WE NEVER SEEK UNITY AT THE EXPENSE OF DOCTRINAL SUBSTANCE
2. The Walk of Unity
*Many people today seek to unite Christians in a way that is not Biblical.
They would say “We are not interested in Doctrine’s but Love.” “It makes no difference what you believe as long as you live right.”
That’s like saying in the Election for President we are not interested in your policies or how you are going to govern we just like the fact that you can give a good speech.”
It is important what you Believe, because what you believe determines how you behave!
“Our Walk”
Worthy of your Calling - Put off the Grave clothes - Walk in Harmony and Victory.
Dialogue with other Christian traditions is valuable only so long as we don’t forget that genuine unity is grounded in the gospel.
WE NEVER SEEK UNITY AT THE EXPENSE OF DOCTRINAL SUBSTANCE
ONE BODY: Connection to the Local Body - we exercise our spiritual gifts and grow!
The fact that a person is a member of the one body does not excuse him from belonging to a local body.
ONE SPIRIT: The same spirit indwells every believer, so that we belong to each other in the Lord.
ONE HOPE: This refers to the return of the Lord to take His church to heaven.
The Holy Spirit within us gives us the assurance of this promise.
ONE LORD: This is our Lord Jesus Christ who died for us, lives for us, and is one day coming back for us.
Someone asked Ghandi, the spiritual leader of India, “What is the greatest hindrance to Christianity in India?”
He replied, “Christians.”
Acknowledging the Lordship of Christ is a giant step toward spiritual unity among His people.
(without this we have no unity to share)
ONE FAITH: There is one settled body of truth deposited by Christ in His church, and this is “the faith.”
Christians may differ in some matters of interpretation and church practice; but all true Christians agree on “the faith” - to depart from it is to bring disunity.
ONE BAPTISM: Since Paul is discussing the one body, this “one baptism” is probably the baptism of the Spirit upon the regeneration process of conversion.
Water baptism is an outward sign of what has already taken place spiritually.
ONE GOD AND ONE FATHER: We are children adopted into the same family - with the same father.
3. The Gifts of Unity
1 Corinthians 1:
The Spirit has given all believers at least one gift.
Gifts are used for unifying and edifying
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