Title: Healthy Church / Ephesians 4:11-16
The church is not a chapel building, but a gathering of God's children who have been saved in the temple. Then, if God saves sinners and comes to heaven by believing in Jesus alone, why did he have to create a church with a limited time and place and command those who were born again to become members of the church for nothing?
Today, if Dasarang Church understands God's purpose of establishment, you will discover what and how to do it for this church.
The purpose of the founding of the church can be viewed in two main ways.
First, the church was established as a means of protecting God's children from the devil, who takes away salvation, rather than coming to church to receive worldly blessings. Saved children must come under the safe umbrella of the church from the time they are born again, receive the nurturing of the Word and godliness, and arrive safely to heaven.
Second, the purpose of establishing the church is not to build a large chapel, but to build a large chapel. In order to effectively accomplish this will, God established a community called the church.
However, if the church is not healthy, it tends to lean on one or both of them. A healthy church must do two things.
For example, if there is no change in your life no matter how much you preach, or when you hear the word, you seem to be moved and determined, but you cannot participate in the church ministry and only casual Christians such as guests of later years are massed, it is a sick church. Even a church that claims to have been cleansed of sins and yet tries to believe properly while consuming the gifts God has given is a sick church.
People who say they were saved with the blood of Jesus but do not have the courage to proclaim the blood of the cross Even though they experienced being born again through a church that someone had built, they could not repay God's command to build a church in the barren land of the gospel because material things were precious. The church, if these people make up the mainstream of the church, it is a church that has life but is not healthy.
So, how can we be reborn as a healthy church?
The cornerstone of a healthy church is shown in the text Ephesians 4:15-16. The Bible likens the church to a body, that is, to a body. Jesus is the head and we are each part of the body. A healthy person is a person whose whole body is attached to the head, is controlled by the head, and each member achieves the purpose of the head.
In order for the church to be healthy, all members must live with one focus. All members of the church are led by Jesus, the head, and fulfill their mission according to Jesus' commands.
The body and the church are organic communities. The hand cannot live apart from the body, nor can the hand do anything for the body without it. In this way, when a saved person leaves the Church of Salvation, it is like committing suicide. He doesn't do anything to the church. That is not God's will. Also, even if the hand is attached to the body, if the hand forgets its mission and does not work at all and consumes blood from the heart, or if the hand is sick and causes pain to the whole body, then it is not a healthy body.
The body organically helps and cooperates with each other to benefit the whole body, including its own members. The work of the hand is a symbiotic relationship that benefits the whole and the whole provides blood and energy to the hand. A God who saves others by protecting their own salvation and making the church strong when each member of the church becomes an organism of the church, works together, cooperates and participates with the church as an organism in order to keep their salvation and fulfill God's will fulfill the will of
However, it would be unfortunate if we misunderstand the freedom of the gospel and fall into neglect. In the text, it is said that we should grow from a child to a more mature person. Those who have just been saved are now children who have life. The child does nothing and only feeds on milk. However, even after 10 years of age, if he does nothing and waits for his mother's spoon, he is an abnormal child. Even if you are ill, you are seriously ill. Those who are not saved do not think about working and it is okay to receive only the milk of salvation from the church. Because salvation is the most urgent thing for him. Passive faith that can't forget the taste of milk even after several years of being saved and can't just lie down and drink milk and have a bowel movement is a big disease.
The price of the church is the blood of Jesus. The church must bear the value corresponding to the price of blood. The price of the blood of Jesus is that the church clearly reveals the merits of the blood by accomplishing the will of Jesus, the head, on this earth. If the church is truly a church purchased with blood, the church must thoroughly resemble Jesus Christ. When Jesus came to this earth, he showed us two things.
The work of Jesus and the person of Jesus.
Jesus' ministry is to save sinners.
Luke 19:10 ?쏷he Son of Man came to seek and save the lost.??Dasarang Church must also imitate the work of Jesus and become a church that proclaims the gospel of salvation throughout the earth.
The mission of the church is to proclaim salvation. It is to declare that Jesus paid 100% of our sins on the cross.
Today, salvation is neglected and we must spread the true gospel and the message of salvation indefinitely against the forces that produce religious or Christian culture. Furthermore, Dasarang Church must establish churches of salvation in all parts of the country. In order to carry out the work of salvation of Jesus like this, above all else, Dasarang Church must become a healthy and powerful church.
Another thing the church must do through Jesus is to serve the church.
Mark 10:45 ?쏤or the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.??
Through the service of Jesus, we were immediately saved. Therefore, only those who have been served by Jesus are saved now. It is often said that if you serve Jesus well, you will be saved, but because you have been taught that way, you dedicate yourself to the Lord and work hard with your own righteousness, but you are not sure of salvation. I am sorry to God, but first, humble yourself and serve Jesus. I'm sorry and I'm sorry, but what do you do when you say that you can go to heaven only if you are served by the Lord without cost?
Have you been served by Jesus? Have you been served by giving your life for you? If so, now, if you are saved, repay Jesus by serving and reveal the fruits of salvation by serving. A person who is truly saved must absolutely belong to the church of salvation established by God, and since that church is the heart that protects my salvation, each member must thoroughly serve the church. The world's values are accustomed to being served by leaders and church members. The worldly values are to be served, and the heavenly values are to serve. However, if he feels thankful for receiving the word of eternal life through this church and protecting our salvation, but is not interested in serving the church, he is a selfish person who only fills his stomach. Each member really aims for heaven, and if it is believed that the church to which they belong is the church of salvation, large or small, they must serve the church according to their gifts. Dasarang Church hopes that there will never be any antinomian believers.
How are perfect, mature members of the church made? "Believe in Jesus and be saved" It is not a shallow thing where everything ends here, but Jesus also taught, modeled, and trained for three years. When we see that Paul trained us to imitate his service like Jesus did, we should not stop nurturing the word and serving the church.
Dasarang Church must be reborn as a healthy church in order to fulfill God's mission to proclaim God's salvation to the whole world. Let's get rid of the shallow ego that says if only I can be saved, let's take part in the life of the community with a sense of ownership of the church in order to fulfill God's wish that saved me. Above all, we must not leave the Church of Salvation, and when the Church of Salvation works for the gospel, we must join together to form a family community to serve. Please believe in the fact that only that way will I stand upright, our church will stand upright, and the kingdom of God will stand upright on this earth.