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Publication Date: 21 Jun 2013 |
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Series: The Bible Speaks Today Themes |
Publisher: IVP |
Page Count: 336 |
Author: Chris Green |
ISBN-13: 9781844748785, 9781844749256 |
The Message of the Church
Assemble The People Before Me
Following the popular thematic series from Bible Speaks Today comes the message of The Church - God's People
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"The Bible Speaks Today themes series will serve as a health-giving tonic to this generation of Christians."
The church should aspire to be a group of vibrant, loving, risk-everything people who are passionately committed to living out the values of God's Word and looking forward to the new creation. Churches and their pastors and leaders need to hear what the Bible says about who they are and what they are to do.
Chris Green takes 'the message of the church' to mean, first, that the church has a message, which is that God has saved his people through Christ; second, that the church is the created and saved result of that message; and third, that the church is a message, which is that he has saved broken people like us, and by belonging to his people we are trying to respond to him in the ways he requires. His stimulating and insightful exposition begins with a survey of the church 'from eternity, to Eden, to exodus, to exile, to eternity', and then focuses on various dimensions of the church's life and ministry, including its worship, unity, maturity, servants, gifts, holiness, boundaries and future.