Churches (and what I mean by this is the local manifestation of the Universal Church but I’ll refer to them for now on as assemblies) have lost focus of the Gospel. No, I don’t mean that they don’t know what it is or that they’re preaching it or that they even support it: but it has become (to all these assemblies) the entrance into Salvation and that’s it. It becomes a talking point on how one assembly is Closer To It than the other or a banner which is waved: but it has been receded from being the very grounds on which the entire Church stands.
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This post serves as a repository of my Local Church series
- What can we assume to know about the Church?
- Are there any unspoken assumptions about the Church?
- Why assume anything about the Church?
- What is the Goal of the Church?
- What is the Work of the Church?
- What does the local church look like?
- What is this about the local leadership in community?
- Does a failing local church still count?
- Are there any examples of failing yet actual local churches?
- Interlude Discussion: So what about para-church organizations?
- What is Rey suggesting?
Scott’s Church Basics Guest Blogging
- What is the ekklesia?
- What does all that mean?
- What are we fighting?
- How do we fight it?
- What do we have?
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