The Four Tenets Of Our Mission Statement

Paul, also in romans 12 sets before the church not only their relation to Christ who is Head but also the relations between brothers and sisters in Christ. It was vital for Paul to begin by entreating them to present their bodies a living

One view says that ministry, evangelism and city movement is not the business of the church as a unit, but of the individuals of the church in their septate spheres. The other view says the opposite that the church should have it's roots deeply invested in the city, making the city a better place to live, Teaching people to love each other like God commands us to. Both of these ideas are correct. We should both love the city throughout our daily lives and corporately as a church. To have to choose between the two is just poor time management. Should local churches partner with other churches to love the city? I think that this is also a yes. I think that some churches are better at doing this than others. I know that my leadership is really great at connecting with other church leadership around the city. Even though I know my pastors talk to other pastors, I feel like our congregation seldom links up with other churches. We get together for a conference here, or a jazz night there. We only seem to connect with other CB churches inside the church doing CB things. I love the city of Portland prayer multi-church event. Whether we are praying or doing, I would love to see the churches in the city team up more and make

For Paul’s audience the apostles, the prophets, the evangelist, the pastors and teachers governed the structure of the church. These individuals equipped the Saints for works of service and the edification of the church. His audience would have understood the metaphor that Paul was implementing throughout the passage. They understood that the body of Christ meant the church; and that infancy was equated to their spiritual status.

THE church was formed as A Body of unity! So I'm sorry for being Bold And Stating truth but to tell u what's up..

In this phase of Paul’s life, he was preparing himself to lead people in mass numbers. Furthermore, he began to find who God has brought him to be. From a perspective built from a Biblical Worldview, human identity begins through birth in which God has given all human beings the opportunity to experience. Over time, the human mind will expand and gain more knowledge of God and how He created the entire universe. At that point, humans begin to develop the view of how they identify themselves.

Paul Cathedral inspired me to become more involved with and get to know more people that are associated with my parish and in my community. The message that I took away has to do with the fact that we are all connected with one another through God and our faith. After reflecting, I found a liking to the statement that the person I interviewed established that while we are all from different backgrounds and have different stories, we are connected through our faith. We, as Catholics, are called to love our dear neighbor and to connect with one another through our faith in Jesus Christ and to live out his mission here in our

He wrote to warn the Colossians of the danger of returning to their old beliefs and practices. He also refuted the false teaching that was threatening this congregation. The outstanding Christian doctrine with which this letter deals is Christology which means that Jesus Christ is the high truth and is our savior and nobody outside him can save them. His main purpose was to let the community of Colossae know that Jesus Christ has absolute authority. He invited the Community of Colossae to seek an encounter with Jesus Christ, and when they have the encounter, they will know Jesus Christ is supreme truth. Jesus has to be the center their life. Paul exhorted them to base their trust in the Word of God rather than in human traditions that do not accurately reflect biblical revelation. The matter of paramount importance to the church is its doctrine of Christ. Our Christian life and service will flow from our doctrine of Christ. Not only must Christ take a place in our lives, but our understanding must be exact in Jesus. We can avoid all the errors of which Paul warns us in this epistle by maintaining an adequate perspective of

Furthermore, he cleverly explains that both the spirit and the body have been bought with a price. This phraseology completely unravels the Gnostic ideology of the body being evil. This tactical maneuver by Paul addresses another Gnostic thought, that the body is evil anyway so it doesn’t matter what acts are practiced in the body, because the spirit will be free from it at death. Paul’s theology to the Corinthian church is one of inclusion in respect to the body and soul. Oliver Buswell concludes, “Man is essentially a corporeal being. The nonmaterial man without the body is incomplete. The blessed dead in heaven, rejoicing in the presence of the Lord, long for further consummation.” Thus, for Christians to allude to the idea of complete healing being the result of death is to be on the side of John and Paul’s Gnostic opponents.

The passage also has a specific context, which will be laid out in this paper. Context Paul was writing to the Corinthian’s in

All of these statements together bring about our true mission; love. Love through community, education, and worship the most Holy One.

Paul represented “one” which is the first mark of the Church by trying to unify the world as best he could with Christianity. He would take journeys to many different countries and cities to try and convert them. One of the reasons the Church has so many members today is because of St. Paul and his missions. St. Paul showed “one” also by the work of charity. Charity or love binds the Church into one people. He showed charity by going to some of the worst cities to try and clean them up as best he could and turn them into the direction of the Lord. For example, the city called Corinth was

This discourse causes one to think of collaboration, and true union with each other. In the body analogy, we see how every part is important; we rely on each other’s gifts. The parts of the body do not try to cut one another off, rather, there is a necessity of each part. In 1 Corinthians 12, we can see how Christ is the head and all the parts cooperate in accordance with him. What we can gather from this is that it is Christ is at our center. Since Christ is the head, he knows of our gifts. Keeping this in mind, we can recall the verse: “But as it is, God placed the parts, each one of them, in the body as he intended.” This can help one think about the importance of intentionality of communication and collaboration. In staying true to our faith, we should strive to be aware of each our special qualities and characteristics. In doing so, we can be more likely to be understanding of others. It teaches us to be more

     I think the meaning of this passage to the Church of Colosse is to be reminded of who Jesus is and what he went through for them. They needed to be reminded of Christ’s Deity and that there a people who care for them and like Paul are willing to go through extreme percussion for

The Church has played a significant role in Christianity thought time. Reading thoughts from Irenaeus, Origen, and Cyprian open us up to reason as to why the Church hold such an important role in the history of the Christian faith and why they believe salvation can only be found within the foundation of the church. Tradition is also important to understand when looking into why the Church plays a significant role in Christianity. In looking at the reading from Irenaeus we see how he draws the correlation of the church as the “living body”, which then must uphold the traditions of the apostles from the first church. He directly states in the first line we read that, “True knowledge is the teaching of the Apostles the order of the church as established from the earliest times throughout the world, and the distinctive stamp of the body of Christ, passed down through the succession of bishops in charge of the church in each place.” For Irenaeus the Church was the cornerstone of the apostolic tradition which is of the most importance to him and his beliefs of Christianity.

The problems Paul was addressing, every Christian, both those in Paul’s time and in contemporary society, all face the issue of returning to an immoral life-style. The message Paul is trying to relay is that no one can avoid these things by their own strength and will power, they need to mature in their faith, have discipline not just individually but as a whole church, and arbitration as a church community.