We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. Recently we’ve been answering questions about God’s church. Last time we saw that all God’s people (past, present and future) are part of the ‘invisible’ church. But what are the benefits of being […]
We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. Recently we’ve been answering questions about God’s church. We saw that there is a ‘visible’ church which is a society made up of people who profess to be believers in Christ and share in […]
We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. Last week we started looking at questions about God’s church. We saw that the ‘visible’ church is a society made up of people who profess to be believers in Christ. In other words, a ‘visible’ […]
We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in 1648. This week we’re going to start looking at questions about God’s church. In the Bible the word ‘church’ can refer to two types of churches – commonly known as the ‘visible’ and the ‘invisible’ […]
For the last few weeks we’ve been looking at reasons to go to church and be taught. This week I want to encourage you to go to church to become holy. Once you become a Christian through repentance and faith, you then are supposed to be holy by doing good works. Otherwise your faith is […]
For the last three weeks we’ve been looking at reasons to go to church and be taught. This week I want to encourage you to go to church to find Christ. Although we can read about Christ in the Bible, it is often by hearing preaching about Christ that we are stimulated to flee to […]
We have begun looking at why you should attend your church to be taught the Bible. This week I want to show you that you should go to church to be humbled. Humility is something we all should seek. Peter reminds us that ‘God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble’ (1 Peter […]
Attending church on Sundays is not always the easiest thing to do. Our lives are busy and complicated. Making one hour a week available to hear from the Bible often seems too hard – particularly when you can pick up the Bible and read it at home by yourself. So today I’m beginning a series […]
Now that we have examined what is the invisible and visible church, I want to look at the purposes of church (both invisible and visible). Firstly, the church has a responsibility to praise God. Ultimately everything we do must be a part of this purpose, after all God made us Christians for this very reason: […]
Two weeks ago I explained that the ‘invisible’ church is all believers in Jesus Christ. For the next few weeks I want to look at what are ‘visible’ churches. ‘Visible’ churches, in contrast to ‘invisible’ churches, are all local churches where we can see visibly who are members and who are not members. Thus, Drummoyne […]