Title The Church of Christ (2 Timothy 02:3)
The content church is divided into an intangible church and a tangible church.
1. The intangible church is the saints who are born again by water and the Holy Spirit, that is, those who are filled with the numbers written in God's book of life. 2) The tangible church is an existential church, as Augustine said. These are the saints who gathered after baptism.
It is more difficult for a person to survive alone than to stand alone, Rousseau said. You cannot do social life, family life, or even church life alone, and you have to adapt well to the community. So, I don't know if God made a woman by taking the ribs of Adam who fell asleep in loneliness.
Our homes, churches, schools, and nations are the four major institutions that God has granted to mankind. Here, I would like to share grace by thinking about how to have a successful church life.
1. We must learn the church like a spiritual school.
In order to succeed in church life, you must not lose the attitude of learning for the rest of your life. You must learn knowledge, learn the principles of life, learn Christian education, and learn the Bible. You must learn where life came from, what it came to be, and where it is going. We must also learn what sin is, what the way to receive forgiveness, and the existence of God.
And just as students are diverse in schools, so are church members. In church life, just like students, there are honor students, failing students, regular latecomers, students who are often absent from school, and there are people who only rot in the church until they graduate from life. A good student is one who learns with humility. Matthew 11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light.
I would like to congratulate you all on graduating from the spiritual school of the church with great grades.
2. The members who view the church as a military training center win the church life.
2 Timothy 2:3 As a good soldier of Christ Jesus, you shall suffer with me, and no one in the military clings to his life, so that he may please those who recruited him as soldiers. . Therefore, Christians were called soldiers of the cross, and a denomination called the Salvation Army was born. How about a soldier 1) A soldier must receive strong training: There is a saying that a soldier who has been trained through sweat does not bleed on the battlefield. Believers who have undergone thorough religious training enjoy a life of grace and blessing in the world, but they will not regret it even when they go to heaven. You must receive the spiritual training that does not dry out the tears of prayer, the sweat of service, and the blood of sacrifice to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
2) Keep soldiers well disciplined: The ten commandments in the Old Testament and the new commandments in the New Testament are the standards of the saints. Sunday holy water, departmental activities, tithing, evangelism, and service are the disciplines of the spiritual church.
3) Soldiers must obey orders: There is a saying in the Japanese army called mong cui and sanny haitoie, which means to obey, not to talk. A successful church life is only obedience and submission. The disobedient has reasons, but the obedient has no reason. The troublemakers in the church are because they don't obey.
3. The church is the way of service to serve.
Mark 10:45 says the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. Calvin stated the mission of the church as follows: 1) The word of God is preached.
2) It is a place where the sacraments are administered, 3) the saints have fellowship, and 4) are trained by the Word.
Also, the church has various titles according to its mission. They are called the castle of refuge, the ark, the radar, the compass, the lightning rod, light and salt, the general hospital of heaven, and the eternal resting place. The theological church has four missions. 1) Kerygma, 2) Diaconia 3) Koinonia. 4) The house where Manmin prays.
In general, the mission of the church that you need to know can be divided into four broad categories.
4. The church is Noah's ark and the model of the kingdom of heaven.
1 Corinthians 1:18 As the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but the power of God to us who are being saved, so is the church.1) The church is the modern day Noah's Ark. Before judgment, God commanded Noah to build an ark and told him to go out and cry. But all the wise and intelligent people died because they thought Noah's cry was foolish. Even at the end of the world, everyone who wants to live in the ark with a name in the ark is guaranteed salvation and eternal life in heaven.
2) Gyoho is the model of heaven: If the saints achieve the heaven of heart while they live on earth, they become home heaven, and the church where such people gather becomes the church heaven. Those who will participate in the kingdom of paradise, the kingdom of the millennium, and the kingdom of eternal life are the saints who will build the kingdom of heaven from here. Therefore, anyone who breaks the atmosphere of heaven is a trick of the devil. I hope that you do not break the atmosphere of heaven in each department and become a church life that participates in creating the atmosphere of heaven.
3) The elements of building heaven are prayer and service of love.: There is no better way than serving, supporting and cherishing each other. Once upon a time, there was a Chinese king who lived luxuriously in Yuji Yurim, but he did not feel happy and if there was someone who made the king happy, he would give him a big reward, but no one had a good alternative. and you can't be happy. The reason is that happiness and joy are only true when we serve, help, and cooperate with others. The king, as well as his people, is serving the king, so can he be happy? When God creates life, worship God and support each other. You said to serve, but the king does not serve anyone and only receives service, so there is joy and worth. Then the king knelt down and said that you were right.
Before we try to succeed in anything, we pray for victory in the church life so that we can succeed in other things as well.