Beloved, What is the essence of the church? What is the heart of all ministry? What makes a healthy church? What makes a church powerful and fruitful in bearing witness for Christ among unbelievers? What is it in the church that is always, absolutely essential, necessary, and indispensible? What builds the church?
What is it that forgives and cleanses the sinner? Heals the brokenhearted? Lifts up the discouraged? Rescues the wanderer? Exhorts the rebellious? Instructs the humble? Bears with the stumbling? Comforts the grieving? Restores fractured relationships? Encourages the fainthearted? Cares for the struggling? Strengthens the weak? Maintains peace and unity in the church? And on, and on, and on…
Here’s how the living, exalted, reigning Head of the Church, the Lord Jesus Christ, answers all these questions:
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John 13:34-35; 1 Cor. 13:1-13; Heb. 13:1; 1 Pet. 4:7-11; 1 Jn. 3:11-18.
According to God’s Word, by the power of the Holy Spirit, for the glory of Jesus Christ!
I love you,
Greg