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Our Mission: Bringing Hope and Impacting Our Community by Leading People into a Growing Relationship with Jesus

S3E1 – WE ARE THE CHURCH

MISCONCEPTIONS WE HAVE BELIEVED OR THOUGHT:

1)   CHURCH IS A _____________

         · Not a building but the ____________ – we are the church

2) CHURCH IS AN ____________

3) CHURCH IS WHERE WE GET OUR _______________

4) CHURCH IS A PLACE FOR ______________ PEOPLE

5)    CHURCH IS _______________

6) THE CHURCH IS __________ MADE

Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The church is Christ’s body, in which He speaks and                   th His presence. Ephesians 1:23 (MSG)

7) THE CHURCH IS BECOMING IRRELEVANT AND ____________

..I (Jesus) will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it. Matthew 16:18 (NLT)

WE ARE THE CHURCH!

23 For a husband is the head of His wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of His body, the church. 24 As the church submits to Christ, so you wives should submit to your husbands in everything. 25 For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up His life for her. Ephesians 5:23-25 (NLT)

Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think. 21 Glory to Him in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations forever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21 (NLT)

The church doesn’t exist for_______.

We are the church. And we exist for the________.