God's Church Part 2

 

God’s Church Part 2

 

The church is the people not the building or the ministries or the organization. It is not what the church does, but who the church is that God is focused on. If we, as the church, are who we are supposed to be we will do what we are supposed to do. Actions flow from who a person is.

 

1 Peter 1:16 says, “Be holy, for I am holy. The church is people who have been made holy by God.” The church is people who have been made holy by God. We are not born holy or righteousness. It is by a person accept Jesus’ death on the cross to pay for their sin & submit to His authority as Lord that makes them holy.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about being made holy by Jesus’ death on the cross.

 

In John 13:34-35 Jesus tells His disciples that He is giving them a new commandment that they are to love one another & that this is the mark that the world will know that they are His disciples. The church is people who love others. Jesus also says in Mark 12:30-31 that we are love God with all that we are & love others as we love ourselves. 

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about loving God & loving others as He does.

 

1 Peter 5:6-7 says, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the might hand of God so that at the proper time He may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.” The church is people who humble themselves under God’s authority. Humbling ourselves before God allows God to exalt us & allow us to cast all our cares on Him. Humbling ourselves under God’s authority is not defeat but a great victory.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about be humble before Jesus as our Lord.

 

In John 19:30 Jesus cries out, “It is finished!” The church is people who know that Jesus work on the cross is a finished work that brings salvation. We cannot save ourselves so we have to trust in Jesus’ death on the cross to save us. It is Jesus & anything else, it is Jesus only that brings salvation.

 

Raise the Roof & Remove the Walls is about trusting Jesus & Jesus only for our salvation.

 

The church is not a creation of humans, but of God. It is God’s people forming the body of Christ & being used by God to take the gospel of God’s grace into the world.