CHURCH

It’s more than a building

The Body

Christ’s hands and feet on earth

Members unified in one mind and spirit

Across time zones, centuries, ethnicities

Not divided by rules made by man

Composed of multitudes from every tribe, tongue, people group, and nation

Who Christ died for

His beautiful bride

Meeting together under the lordship of Christ

Each using his gifts for the edification of the whole

Partnering together to establish heaven on earth and bring kingdom

Sharing amongst each other and serving selflessly

Each one unique but all equal

Fulfilling their individual roles to support, encourage, and build up the Body of believers

Each one listening to and obeying the Father as the Spirit leads, following Jesus’ example

So that His will is done and the Body is ever expanding

Staying unified but always seeking to bring in more to the fold and fighting to get God’s family back

Discipled to make disciples

Receiving salvation and claiming their inheritance

Understanding the cost (everything) and laying down their lives fully for the King

Humble, bold, kind, speakers of Truth

Persevering til the end

Christ being formed in them

Embodying the fruit of the Spirit

Enduring all things with joy and hope

For they know and trust the Lord who they serve

And His love is better than life itself

Secure in their identity as loved children of the Lord Most High

His ambassadors who fill the earth with His glory

Displaying His loving kindness and inviting anyone and everyone into it

Freely receiving from the Father and freely giving it away

Willing vessels

Loved to Love

One Body

One mind

One spirit

The Bride of Christ

The hope of glory

It’s more than a building

CHURCH

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.”
??Ephesians? ?4:15-16? ?

“For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others.”
??Romans? ?12:4-5? ?