Christ's Authority over the Church

We're so glad that you're here. Not just for today but so glad that so many of you are showing such faithfulness to this fellowship. I'm very excited about the condition of our fellowship and where we're going and where we've come from and you're all an integral part of that. It wouldn't be happening without the people of God gathering around the teaching of his word and wanting to learn it and receive it and respond to it and that's what we're doing here. And what's going on right now for those of you that are new to, this is your first time here, is that we're really starting to move into a serious consideration of what it means to be a church and contrary to what people might think from just observing the Christian scene over the past 20 years, you're not a church just because you can put together a praise band and have flashing lights on a Sunday morning. There is so much more to that and those kinds of superficial trivialities are really not what the church is about at all and so we have begun together a voyage over the past several months to establish a real New Testament church in this area and we're very grateful that the Lord has opened this opportunity for us. You know, there is something special about being in the position that we are, starting a church from scratch. It's kind of like home cooking from scratch with all of the fresh ingredients. You see all the separate ingredients come together with a fresh outcome and our opportunity is to be able to build something without a lot of accumulated baggage from the past and be able to go and just look at God's word and say, “Lord, what does your word say about the church?

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