Lesson 1: Part 2, What is the Church and How Does that Understanding Shape My Relatio

Four Significant Implications:
Lordship: Because Christ is the Lord of the church…
• We labor to recognize only His word as our final authority.
• We endeavor to make expositional preaching the primary teaching and preaching diet of the church.
• We labor to emphasize doctrines in proportion to their clarity and emphasis in scripture.
• We labor to diligently preach and teach the whole counsel of God.
• We labor not to compromise or show partiality for the sake of convenience.
• We labor to keep one another including leadership accountable to Christ.

Shepherd: Because Christ is the shepherd of the Church…
• We trust Him to meet the needs and raise up the future leadership of the church.
• We put more emphasis on Christ, then on the men and women that He uses in our lives.
• We rejoice in the fact that we will never be let down by Him, no matter what men do or do not do.