What is the Church?What is the church & what is is for? What do you think of when you hear the word Church? Is it a building? Is it a people? Is it visible or invisible? What is the Church and what is it for? This is the question we are going to begin to wrestle through together. Why does the church exist? Where did it come from? What can we learn about the church from Scripture, Tradition, Reason and experience?
Over the coming weeks and months we'll be posting resources, information and ideas and then commenting and discussing together on this blog. If you have ideas for a post, email them to tims@heartlandk10.com and I'll work with you to get them ready for the blog. If you have comments on a current post, fire away!
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love." - Frederick Buechner
[ for those posting on the blog: all posts will be moderated which will ensure that nobody comes and hijacks our discussion. This will mean there might be a few hour between when you submit your comment and when it actually posts on the blog. ]
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We tend to view the "church" in terms of denominations and traditions and within our own culture. The Church is God's body of believers that transcends space and time. As the Church grows in God's revealing truths, God's Word trumps cultures and tranditions and denominations. Furthermore, the growth of the Church (the vine) is interwoven with the life of God's chosen, Israel (the fig tree), through which we (the church) inherit the blessings promised to Abraham and his descendants.
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