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The church is also described as the temple of God built with “living stones” (1 Peter 2:5). And, as the Apostle Paul aptly put it, the church is the Household of God (1 Timothy 3:15). A “household” is a family understood as an organized unit with structure, lines of authority, and particular functions.
Dec 19, 2023 · “The nuclear family remains the basic building block of an orderly church and society; things do not go well when that fails. Satan knows this and has been attacking the family since the Fall. Issues now are nothing new under the sun but seemingly magnified, with no-fault divorce, domestic and child abuse, sexual relations outside of biological male-female marriage, abortion, euthanasia ...
Intimately united to the Church by virtue of the sacrament that makes it a "domestic Church" or a "little Church", the Christian family is called therefore "to be a sign of unity for the world and ...
In 2001, when Charles Swindoll wrote the foreword to Dennis Rainey’s book, Ministering to Twenty-First Century Families he said the church is “a family of families.” He was merely stating in his characteristic, winsome way that families are important in church life. He said, “Most of the people in a local church are united in a smaller group called a family. In other words, the church ...
Feb 18, 2021 · The family is the biblical source of welfare, inheritance, and support. The family also has responsibilities for health, provision, and the education of their children. The Church. Next we have the church. Christ is Lord over the church and he gifts the church with leaders who give an account to Christ on how they lead (Heb 13:17). The church ...
Jan 10, 2023 · In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit” (Eph. 2:21–22). The church is a new temple built in Christ, by Christ, and for Christ. Obviously, Paul isn’t saying the church is a building made out of mortar and brick, but that we are the stones, the living stones, as 1 Peter 2:5 tells us.
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Dec 18, 2023 · Church, Civil Magistrate, Creation, Family, Government, Romans Timothy Decker has 10+ years of experience in pastoral ministry and is currently one of the pastors of Trinity Reformed Baptist Church. He holds a BA and MA in Biblical Studies from Piedmont International University as well as a ThM from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary with a focus on New Testament and Greek.