The Multi-faceted Glorious Church
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Identity - Value (hidden)
Identity - Value (hidden)
The largest buried treasure find in America, known as the Saddle Ridge hoard, was discovered in February 2013. A couple who owned the property were walking their dog in the morning. They spotted what appeared to be a rusted portion of a can and decided to unearth it. The rusted and deformed can was unusually heavy as if it were filled with iron or lead. The can was so heavy that while taking it back to their house, the lid of the can cracked open and revealed glistening gold coins! Not the sort of thing that you stumble across on the average day!
After that first can, the couple went back to the site to dig up the land in search of more cans filled with coins. Eventually, they unearthed a total of eight cans throughout their property on Saddle Ridge. After their discovery, the couple protected their find by hiding it in an old ice chest, then burying it under a pile of wood.
Know what you show
Know what you show
(and why it’s important)
2 things: The church isn’t Israel … We were made to show God’s wisdom to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places
41 And as you saw the feet and toes, partly of potter’s clay and partly of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom, but some of the firmness of iron shall be in it, just as you saw iron mixed with the soft clay. 42 And as the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly brittle. 43 As you saw the iron mixed with soft clay, so they will mix with one another in marriage, but they will not hold together, just as iron does not mix with clay.
Melting pot
CRT and how it wants to create unity
Intersectionality
Oppressor vs oppressed
The equality of the melting pot won’t solve the problem. Only the church is created to solve the problem
The church isn’t Israel…nor is the church everyone
Fellow heirs, members of the same body, partners of the promise
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Embrace the joy of the new “us”
Embrace the joy of the new “us”
Notice the people “on the fringe” - - seek justice and love mercy
Members of the same body
Suffering is your glory
24 Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too. 6 If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer. 7 Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.
10 Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
Augustine, an African
Martin Luther, a German
William Tyndale, an Englishman
David Brainerd, American Indians
John Wesley, slaves
George Lisle, Jamaica
George Mueller, from Prussia to Jews in England (and ran an orphanage)
James Hudson Taylor, China Inland Mission
Abdul Rahman, an Afghan is forced to go to Italy by Muslims
Whattoffs, missions trip fund
The danger of judging others self-sacrifice - Peter and John
We know how to suffer well...
Parable of the hidden treasure