Christ's Church

Welcome to Our Church

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McChurch

2011-12-12T18:36:00.001-08:00

We do McChurch today, pure and simple. We visit churches like we do fast food restaurants and we want a menu that fits our felt needs rather than what Jesus desires. Give us a little McReligion, but not too much of it. We will tolerate a McSermon if the McPreacher doesn't go overtime or scatch us too often where we don't think we have an itch. Church had better be exciting and entertaining and filled with lots of McGoodies, or we will take our two dollars someplace else. "Meet my felt needs or else." This is not, I repeat NOT, what the Lord had in mind, in my humble McView.

Old Testament

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For our learning
Romans 15:4

Changed
Hebrews 7:12 & 8:7, 8 & 13 & 10:9
Ephesians 2:13-15
Colossians 2:14

Ended at the death of Christ
Hebrews 9:15-17
Galatians 3:16, 19, & 24-25; 5:4 & 18

Sabbath to Jews
Deuteronomy 5:2-3 & 15

Made known at Sinai
Nehemiah 9:13-14

Elders & Deacons

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Titus 1:5-9
1 Timothy 3:1-13 & 5:17
Acts 20:28
Hebrews 13:17

The Bible Takes Division as Serious as Sin

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Sinful—1 Corinthians 1:10-13, John 17:20-21.
Only one body—Ephesians 4:4 & 1:22-23, 1 Corinthians 12:13.
To support false teacher is sinful—2 John 1:10-11, Isaiah 5:20, Proverbs 17:15.

What Is The Church?

2011-08-13T14:58:00.001-07:00

WHAT IS THE church...?

. A fellowship against loneliness.

. A hospital for healing.

. A time-out corner.

. A resting place.

. A bath for washing guilt away.

. A reflecting pool.

. A kneeling bench.

. A classroom of truth.

. A laboratory of life.

. A hospital door.

. A track for walkers in the Way of Christ.

. A practice field for patience and compassion.

. An internship for minister-members.

. A herald of Good News, joyful news, hopeful news, helpful news.

. A cafeteria where God feeds us.

. A garden where God comes looking for us.

. A rescue mission where God finds us.

Undenominational Christianity

2011-07-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

Undenominational Christianity
06/19/2011 - by Chuck Monan, Preaching Minister

The tangled web of denominationalism has long been a hindrance to people coming to Christ. Looking for answers, men and women are instead confused by a staggering number of churches teaching disparate doctrines that have calcified the lines of division. With many rejecting this religious status quo, some denominations are trying to change their stripes. Over a decade ago, four major denominations -- the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, and the Reformed Church of America -- approved a unity pact that allows the denominations to share clergy and permits members of each group to take communion in each other’s churches. The decision was hailed by leaders of these groups as a watershed moment: “Today is an occasion for profound gratitude to God for persistently calling us to overcome divisions that have separated Lutheran and Reformed Christians in North America.” This very statement, though, underscores the main problem with all of this.

It was never God’s plan to have any kind of “hyphenated” Christians. When we read the New Testament we do not see any examples of people calling themselves Catholic-Christian, Baptist-Christian, Lutheran-Christian, Presbyterian-Christian, or any other hyphenated name ... including Church of Christ-Christians, for that matter. They were content to be Christians only. To have as their only standard of doctrine the Bible. To strive to keep “the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph. 4:3). We should never be haughty, condescending or sectarian in our thoughts or dealings with others. There are plenty of areas where we are deficient, and we need to humbly seek God’s guidance. Yet we must not give up the Restoration Plea to go back to the biblical essentials so unity can exist.

The problem with denominations attempting to forge unity is that they are building on a flawed foundation. Years ago, Raymond Kelcy wrote:
We do not read of any person in New Testament times joining a denomination. Denominationalism is something unknown to New Testament writers. If we practice Christianity today as it was practiced then, we must be Christians, members of the New Testament church and not join any denomination. This means Christianity is undenominational. Some think they have the idea of undenominational Christianity, when really, what they have in mind is interdenominational Christendom. They have an idea that the church is an institution made up of all the denominations. But the church must be separate and apart from denominationalism. It is not inter-denominational, but is undenominational. And that means that members of the church should stay out of all denominations. This is the plea being made by churches of Christ everywhere today.

May this be our plea today as we seek to spread the borders of God’s kingdom.

Bookmarks

2011-04-20T12:40:00.000-07:00

I will continue to add bookmarks or favorites to this blog post as I discover relevant ones. If you have any suggestions, feel free to send those to me and I will consider there relavance to this blog. If I feel they are as valuable as you, I will add them. Thanks!

Links, Bookmarks, etc. below
http://www.studyjesus.com/

Cost

2010-07-13T19:00:00.001-07:00

"It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things; but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion." C. S. Lewis

Church as Family

2009-01-28T15:36:00.000-08:00

It is in community
that we come to see God in the other.
It is in community
that we see our own emptiness filled up.
It is community
that calls me beyond the pinched horizons
of my own life,
my own country,
my own race,
and gives me the gifts
I do not have within me.

What is the Church

2009-01-27T07:44:00.000-08:00

What Is The Church...?

. A fellowship against loneliness.

. A hospital for healing.

. A time-out corner.

. A resting place.

. A bath for washing guilt away.

. A reflecting pool.

. A kneeling bench.

. A classroom of truth.

. A laboratory of life.

. A hospital door.

. A track for walkers in the Way of Christ.

. A practice field for patience and compassion.

. An internship for minister-members.

. A herald of Good News, joyful news, hopeful news, helpful news.

. A cafeteria where God feeds us.

. A garden where God comes looking for us.

. A rescue mission where God finds us.

One Solitary Life

2007-06-20T09:17:00.000-07:00

One Solitary Life

http://www.onesolitarylifemovie.com/

Christs Church

2006-03-31T13:36:00.000-08:00

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven." Then he warned his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ. Matthew 16:18-20 (NIV)