Love Your Church by Tony Merida
Introduction The author sets out his agenda "I want people to love Jesus and his church - and to know how to love their church." He wants us the reader to realise the significance of the church and what role they can play in it. Firstly he sets out what the church is - a family. At present we experience true salvation but we await final and full salvation in the future with all God's people throughout all of time. We show the world what our King is like, and what the kingdom to come will be like through our shared life and our mission of word and deed in the world. We are situated outside of our homeland so our life and actions are different from others. 1 Timothy 4 verse 15 we are "the household of God which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth." Acts 20 verse 28 "Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with ...