How Do I Live in Community?

THE BASICS

“How Do I Live in Community?”

What is the Church?

The of God. (I Peter 2:9-10)

We think of our relationship with God as being vertical, but it is also .

Expressions of the church in Scripture:

The Universal Church (Eph. 3:10, 21)

The Persecuted Church (John 15:19-20)

The Local Church (Eph. 4:12)

Two ordinances of the local church:

Communion (Matt. 26:26-29)

By this:

We remember Christ. (I Cor. 11:24)

We proclaim Christ. (I Cor. 11:26)

We represent Christ. (I Cor. 5:11-13; 11:27-32)

Baptism

It’s a command. (Matt. 28:19; Acts 2:38)

It’s a testimony. (I Cor. 6:11; Rom. 6:3-5)

It’s by immersion. (Mark 1:10)

The of God. (John 1:12; 17:11; I Jn. 4:19-21: Eph. 4:3-6; Heb. 10:24-25)

The of Christ. (I Cor. 12:27; Col. 1:18; Eph. 4:7,8, 11)

A Holy . (Eph. 2:19-22; I Peter 2:5)

The of Christ. (Eph. 5:25-27, 32)

The church exists His .

We exist His .