Membership at a local church is a spiritual discipline. It’s not the law, but you’ll have a very difficult time obeying Jesus’ communal commands without some kind of commitment to a specific group of Christians – it will just be too easy and tempting to slip away from it. Simply put, church membership is a […]
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Christians are not only reconciled to God, but also to His people. God is not saving a constellation of individual Christians encapsulated from one another, He is saving a people, gathering a nation – and you’ll never understand who you are or what you are as a Christian if you think of yourself only
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The biggest thing missing from someone who is not a Christian is not that they need more religious stuff going on in their lives or they need to be nicer – it’s that they need their relationship with God to be made right. It’s really, really great to be Christians together. And we want to
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Jesus is the point from which all things are directed and to which all things are focused. He is supreme, first, the center – we must live accordingly. This must be the reference point from which we understand everything else. Think ahead five years. Five years from now, what is going on in your life?
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There is no one else that images God like Jesus Christ does. There is no guru that you can follow like you can follow Jesus. There is no business leader, self-improvement tycoon that you can trust like you can trust Jesus. There is no human mentor that you can trust like Jesus. There is no
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We can do good works, but if we have forgotten the reason behind these good works, then perhaps we have lost our first love. It is all about Christ. When you think about homecomings, you probably think of gathering with people who have been very much a part of your life: friends, teachers, etc. But
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