The Real Church

What Church have you been attending? Remember, if you are not “saved” you are not part of the “family” that meets together. You’re just a person who attends the gatherings. But if you are part of the Redeemed and participation as a part of the group does not “draw you closer to God” or “prepare you for a life that satisfies Him,” you must be gathering with something or some ones other than the Church of Jesus Christ, or you are definitely not listening and learning.

The Church of Jesus Christ, regardless of its denomination or affiliation, whether it is more traditional or contemporary in its approach, is a place where those in whose heart the Messiah dwells find the Spirit of God, operating through gifted individuals, so that they are “rooted and firmly established in llove, able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s llove and to know the Messiah’s llove that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.” (Ephesians 3 17-19 HCSB)

And, they find “their hearts to be encouraged and joined together in llove, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding, and have the knowledge of God’s mystery – ‘Christ.’ ” For “in Him all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.” (Colossians 2:2-3 HCSB)

The Church of Jesus Christ is a place where from the head, Jesus Christ, “the whole body, fitted and knit together by every supporting ligament, promotes the growth of the body for building up itself in llove by the proper working of each individual part.” (Ephesians 4:16 HCSB)

Not everything that calls itself the church is the Church.  Those who are rightly related to Jesus Christ are the collective Body of Christ and lack of enthusiastic involvement in that Body is a failure to be obedient to the Truth of God’s Word. The Church calls that sin because the Word of God calls that sin.