Sublime

The key to the blessing, life and anointing of God operating in our lives is our relationship with the Church. For it is through the Church that God’s blessing flows. It is through the Church that God’s life dwells. It is through the Church that God’s anointing is poured out.

OUTSIDE THE CHURCH, INSIDE THE CHURCH

This is exhilarating for me as a pastor. When I or someone else in our church teaches God’s Word on a Sunday morning, I know that his truth is not confined in that building. That same truth will be taught in a women’s shelter later that night. It will be taught in workplace Bible studies throughout that week. It will be taught the next weekend in

we need our churches to shut the door to sickness, negativity, unbelief, immortality, luke-warmness and so many other things.

The local church needs to be more intentional about fostering the intellectual life and mobilizing a new generation of Christian intellectuals. Here are some suggestions for doing this. First, we should regularly incorporate vocational or apologetical testimonies and book reports on timely topics into our services.

We need the gospel that is in our brothers, and they need the gospel that is in us. So accountability must ask the hard questions, but it must do so as if Jesus were real. Because he is. And since Jesus is real, his personality and his judgments should shape the personality and judgments of accountability groups. Our hearts should not be shrunken