We are all cells in God's body

Our task is to display the richness of what Jesus offers his people in believing a gospel that creates a sense of belonging we can experience nowhere but in the church and a behavior that will allow us to live in line with and more fully experience the God who created us.

Believers who know and love God and yet do not experience His joy, power, or presence anywhere near the way God longs for them to know Him. If you’re tired of all the rules, all the formulas, all the religious activities, and even well-meaning church programs that promise transformation but don’t deliver, I invite you to join me on a journey of gra

we must acknowledge the fact that we serve an interactive God. The God of the Holy Bible is one very different than the deities history has repeatedly produced. We need look no further than the life of Jesus—Immanuel, or “God with us”—to see Yahweh is one who enjoys getting his hands dirty.

It is only in a church that we are members of Christ and of one another, moving forward together like a well-coordinated body (1 Cor. 12:12–27). It is together that we suffer and thrive. It is together that we worship and grow and serve, according to the Word of God. That’s what your church is—ground zero for the new kind of community Christ is cre