01/23/25 CHURCH UNITY IS GOD'S PLAN

01/23/25 CHURCH UNITY IS GOD'S PLAN

One reason that a Biblically grounded, Christ following, Spirit empowered local church is important is because false witnesses and their blind followers will attack the church (pastor and parishioners). With a New Testament local church there is a unified witness to truth.

Christians and Biblical local churches are not afraid to face their accusers and to speak the truth in love. 

Make sure that you are part of, and in fellowship with, a faithful local church.
This is not simply my point of view, it is the revealed word of God.

God designed, organized, established, staffed, empowered, indwells, leads, correct, reproves, purifies, Biblical local churches.

God refers to the Church as His Bride, Body and Building. God directed His revealed word to be sent to local churches in, Rome, Corinth, the region of Galatia (Asia Minor), Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, Thessalonica, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea, as well as other unnamed local churches, and also sent letters to pastors, Timothy and Titus. God gave spiritual gifts to local churches for the perfecting of the saints and the conversion of the lost. God gives the local church the responsibility of Christian order, authority, discipline and discipling, local church government and accountability, and outreach, as well as the protection and proclamation of His word.

To blaspheme Biblical preachers, Biblical churches is to blaspheme the word, the work and the will of God. 

Just so you know, I have been preaching, teaching, writing and counseling these truths concerning the local church for over 50 years. Nothing new here.