Month: January 2024

This third installment of our series on the local church focuses on one of the most important questions we should be asking:  “What is the Mission of the Church?” We have talked about the origin of the church, the formation and activity of the early church, now we need to find out, what is the church all about?  What did God have in mind when He designed it?  What should we be doing? I hope you will take the time to listen in on this message.  It is one of the most critical, because if we get this right, it …

In our first message in this series on the local church, we looked at the fact that the church was God’s idea, it is not manmade.  While man has produced many forms of church that may be very different than what God intended, make no mistake, God is the one who created and established the church.  Because of that, we want to make sure we have a good grasp of what the church should look like and what the church should be doing. To that end, we are going to dig into Acts 2 this morning.  We want to look …

How important is the church? I have been a pastor for over 25 years and I have been a follower of Jesus for 45.  If I have not learned anything else in all my experience, I have learned that the most important elements of the Christian life are time with God in prayer, time with God in His Word, and time with God’s people, specifically through local church involvement.  I have also learned that those are the things Satan most wants to keep us from. Now I think we all know those first two items are important.  I’ve never heard …