What is a true church? What follows is not a DEEP theological treatise! Just some of the more simple observations from years of being in the church!
1. The true church lives to bring glory to the name of the Lord!
2. The true church clings unswervingly to the truth of God's Word!
3. The true church lives a life that has been and is being transformed by the Spirit of God!
4. The true church does what the Lord says do, goes where the Lord says go, and speaks what the Lord tell us to say!
5. The true church cannot be stopped by man or circumstances!
6. The true church does not compromise with the world!
7. The true church does not isolate itself from the world!
8. The true church declares without embarrasment the claims of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!
9. The true church rightly divides the Word of Truth, and rests on faith for what it cannot fully grasp!
10. The true church belongs to God - not to us!
11. The true church lives to please God - not man!
12. The true church is dependent on God for success, the definition of success, and the expression of success.
13. The true church recognizes it cannot live without the empowerment and enlightenment of the Holy Spirit.
14. The true church does not look so much like the church we have created!
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