Alliance Bible Church - Mequon, Wisconsin - Gospel Community: The Church is a Taste of Heaven

Forget Disney. Forget Bora Bora. Forget the Alps. When it comes to heaven on earth, the Church is the closest thing you'll find. Why? "Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst" (1 Cor. 3:16)? The Church is the dwelling place of God. There's simply no better soul-healing, heart-satisfying, truth-seeking community to be a part of. 1) The Moral Structure of Gospel-Community 2) The Family Nature of Gospel-Community 3) The Material Support o...

Duration: 28m
Broadcast on: 26 Sep 2021
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Forget Disney. Forget Bora Bora. Forget the Alps. When it comes to heaven on earth, the Church is the closest thing you'll find. Why?

"Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst" (1 Cor. 3:16)?

The Church is the dwelling place of God. There's simply no better soul-healing, heart-satisfying, truth-seeking community to be a part of.

1) The Moral Structure of Gospel-Community
2) The Family Nature of Gospel-Community
3) The Material Support of Gospel-Community

Text: Romans 12:9-13

(upbeat music) - This message is brought to you by Alliance Bible Church located in Mequon, Wisconsin. Our vision is to captivate generations with a satisfying gospel of Jesus Christ. For more information about Alliance Bible Church or other resources, please check out our website, myavc.church.

Our vision here at Alliance Bible Church is captivating generations with the satisfying gospel of Jesus Christ. At the core of what we're about is the gospel. The gospel does all the heavy lifting. Does all the heavy lifting, it does all the work. The gospel itself is captivating all on its own. It does not need a boost from us as the short kid needs help getting over a fence. Doesn't need our help. Our job is to hoist it up the tallest flagpole we can find and call people together around it. And the scriptures are clear as to what happens when we do that. People from every generation will crowd around it. We are a multi-generational church because the gospel is a multi-generational message. We're a multi-generational church because the gospel is a multi-generational power. This pastor Dwayne talked about last week. It never wears out, it doesn't grow old. And we know that the gospel points us to and is the source of the good life. The green or grass conspiracy is alive and well in our day and age. And it seductively lures many people in only for them to find out that things like money and acceptance and prestige and power and notoriety and hundreds of other created things cannot deliver on their promises. Only the gospel possesses the attributes needed to bring rest to weary souls.

Now our five values here are practices that every one of us need to embody repetitiously in order to see our vision come to fruition. If we as a church practice these values, we hold to these values, we embody these values, we incarnate these values, we'll get traction in seeing our vision accomplished. Now today we're on value number three, the gospel community, the church is a taste of heaven. The church is meant to be a harbinger,

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