Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PVIII

Incarnational Churches are aware of their Eternal Covenant   Because of Christ’s incarnation, work, and sacrifice, He takes the place of our debt of sin and fulfills the old covenant and the blood sacrifice, which was temporary and flawed, to atone for our sin. Now, we can go directly to God, person-to-Person. God renews His relationship [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ P VII

Incarnational Churches live as a response to what Christ has done for us! If you love Jesus, then you are to love others too. Hebrews is almost written as a letter of recommendation to encourage the hearers to continue in the faith and not give up, and to obey their leaders, because if they do [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PVI

Incarnational Churches are not led Astray  Scripture in Hebrews, 2 Peter, and many other places clearly tell us do not be carried away, as in do not be led astray by false ideas, trends, or other things just because they are new. Lusting for something we may think is better, from a bad food to [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PV

Incarnational Churches show Brotherly Love and it is Real  In what ways does brotherly love define you? How should it? Francis Schaeffer and others have told us over the centuries; men from Augustine, Kempis, and Aquinas as well as the Reformers have warned that the attitude and trends of the church tend to be the [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PIV

Incarnational Churches Go to People  Following Christ means just that: we follow His character and teachings. We also follow Him so He takes us where the people and needs are and where we can meet Him there. This may require the deliberate rearrangement of our traditional thinking, so our lives apprehend the application He has [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PIII

Incarnational Churches are Impacted by Christ  Christ’s Incarnation was about His building a crossing for us by His cross, so the unsaved may become Christians, and then we are to build a crossing for others so they can know Him too. We do this in our personal lives; as leaders, we bring our growing, impacted [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PII

Incarnational Churches First and Foremost Display Christ  How well is Christ displayed and deployed in you and your church?   Our call is to live for Christ, and we do this when we live in Christ, reaching for others through Christ,. But first, we have to take a serious, self-introspective examination to see how well we [...]

Building a Church that Points to and Honors Christ PI

Learning from Who Christ is and what He has done to be a Church in Love   Ephesians 3 and Hebrews 13  What is your church up to?   We, as followers of Christ wo worship, fellowship, and serve in His local church must realize we are the containers of His grace, both as individuals and as [...]

Building a Church that points to and honors ME!?

These next few blogs will be about learning from enigmatic, prideful, megalomaniac folks who have new trends and ideas, who are on the cutting edge, who seem to come across as relevant, impacting, inspiring, exciting and connecting… so we can move our church closer to ourselves and further away from Christ. Then I can say, [...]

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