Re-Dedication: Your Church Needs You (September 18, 2022)
Dennis R Wiles
FBC Arlington
September 18, 2022
2022 Re- . . .
FALL 2022 Re-Dedicate
September 4 – November 5, 2022
Re-Dedicate: Your Church Needs You!
1 Corinthians 3:5-9
The church is not a cohesive community but a club, whose meetings provide important moments of spiritual insight and exaltation, but do not have global implications of moral and social change. The Corinthians could gladly participate in this church as one segment of their lives. But the segment, however important, is not the whole and the centre. Their perception of their church and of the significance of their faith could correlate well with a lifestyle which remained fully integrated in Corinthian society.
-J. M. B. Barclay, Thessalonica and Corinth
The church at Corinth in the first century was facing: division, incest, internal lawsuits, sexual immorality, questions about Christian marriage, arguments concerning meat purchased in the marketplace, debates about numerous issues in public worship, ignorance about spiritual gifts, misunderstanding about the resurrection, and eschatological debates.
What issues are we facing as a church in Arlington, Texas in the 21st century?
Your church needs you!
We believe the CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST ON EARTH TODAY! Jesus established the church, and it exists to perform God’s will on earth. Believers are to invest themselves in the life and work of the church.
(Matthew 16:17-18; Acts 2:42; 1 Corinthians 12:27)
We are working to build a colony of heaven, an expression of the Kingdom of God, an example of God’s redemptive work ----- right here on earth in Arlington, Texas!
