My aim is that we will all have a good understanding of what the marks of a member of Christ’s church are and how that might be expressed in our local church here. Let’s pre-empt that right now by stating that the marks of a member of Christ’s church are Christ’s life!
Christians among us need to wake up to realise who we are and what it means to be the church – God’s people in this time and place.
The uncommitted, the uncertain and the seekers need to be encouraged to come amongst us, learn from God’s Word and confess their faith in Jesus Christ. We are not judging you. We were like you. We are called to bless you!
The cynical and rebellious unbelievers need to come amongst us to have their man-centred ideas challenged and the good news of Jesus Christ sown in their thinking and in their hearts.
Christians, we have work to do. We must build a church. If we fail to build a church in our lifetime we have failed our main calling. We must build a church that can do the work described in the New Testament. We have to recover the way our Christian brothers and sisters did church at first. There are layers that need to be scraped away so we can find a firm foundation to build on. We have to prepare a church that will be effective and dynamic when the current small children among us are young adults.
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