{"id":2931,"date":"2022-07-17T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-5-july-10-2022-copy\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:18:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T21:18:57","slug":"pentecost-6-july-17-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopelcs.ca\/church\/pentecost-6-july-17-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost 6 – July 17, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAbove All Else : The Church\u201d – 1 Corinthians 12:2-7, 17-27<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a01. The Definition of the Church<\/h4>\n

As we continue our series of sermons on the essentials of our Christian faith and how we live it out, we move on today to a consideration of the church. We will look at four things: the definition of the church; the nature of the church; the Biblical images of the church; the purpose of the church.<\/p>\n

As we explore the definition of the church, we need to recognize that the word \u2018church\u2019 is used in different ways, portrayed in these sentences using the word:<\/p>\n

In the Western world, the church is, by and large, responsible for the founding of hospitals. (\u2018Church\u2019 means the indefinite world-wide organization.)<\/p>\n

The Lutheran Church does mission work in many African countries. (\u2018Church\u2019 means a church body, a denomination.)<\/p>\n

The church is across from McLean Park. (\u2018Church\u2019 means a building.)<\/p>\n

Hope Church runs a K \u2013 8 Christian school. (\u2018Church\u2019 means a congregation.)<\/p>\n

What time is church? (\u2018Church\u2019 means the worship service.)<\/p>\n

Interestingly, none of these uses of the word \u2018church\u2019 is truly Biblical. There were no denominations in the first century A.D., no church buildings that we know of, and although there were congregations they were not specifically named as a church. The word \u2018church\u2019 was definitely NOT used in the Bible to refer to worship. So, what is the definition of \u2018church\u2019 according to the Bible? For the answer to that question, we need to look at the Greek word that is most often translated as \u2018church.\u2019 That word is \u2018ecclesia\u2019 from which we get our English words \u2018ecclesial\u2019 and \u2018ecclesiastical.\u2019 \u2018Ecclesia\u2019 is a compound word formed from the word \u2018ek\u2019 meaning \u2018out\u2019 or \u2018out of\u2019 and the word \u2018clesia\u2019 which is a form of the verb \u2018kaleo\u2019 meaning \u2018to call.\u2019 Together they refer to people who are \u2018called out\u2019 much like the people of Israel were \u2018called out\u2019 to be a separate and holy people for the Lord. In the Christian context, we are \u2018called out\u2019 to belong to the Lord Jesus and to be different from the world\u2026 in the world but not of it. So, truly, the word can properly refer to individuals who, as Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12, truly and sincerely and personally confess \u201cJesus is Lord, Jesus is my Lord.\u201d In other New Testament contexts those believers are the \u2018saints,\u2019 the \u2018holy ones\u2019 – but it can also refer to the gathering or assembly of those individuals for study and for worship.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a02. The Nature of the Church<\/h4>\n

Next, we consider the nature of the church. What are its characteristics? When we confess the Nicene\u00a0 Creed, as we did today, we are pointing to the nature of the church as \u2018one, holy, Christian and apostolic.\u2019 Let\u2019s use those adjectives from the Nicene Creed to help us understand the nature of the church, the large church.<\/p>\n

First of all, it says the church is one. The church is one because there is one Christ. This is what we read in our Epistle reading: \u201cFor just as\u00a0the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body,\u00a0so it is with Christ.\u00a0For\u00a0in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body\u2014Jews or Greeks, slaves\u00a0or free\u2014and\u00a0all were made to drink of one Spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul expressed much the same thing, with an emphasis on unity, in Ephesians 4: \u201cThere is\u00a0one body and\u00a0one Spirit – just as you were called to the one\u00a0hope that belongs to your call –\u00a0one Lord,\u00a0one faith,\u00a0one baptism,\u00a0one God and Father of all,\u00a0who is over all and through all and in all.\u201d The \u201cone body\u201d means the church, the assembly of those \u201ccalled out ones.\u201d That means that, despite the differences we may have between denominations in the world-wide church, there is more that unites us than divides us. Our one Lord Jesus makes us all one.<\/p>\n

The next adjective from the Nicene Creed is \u201choly.\u201d That is true because its members have the forgiveness of sins, thanks to the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. When God looks at you, He sees you through the lens of the purity and holiness of Jesus. He no longer sees your sin, but He sees you as saints, forgiven saints, holy ones.<\/p>\n

The third adjective that describes the church is Christian. [whisper\u2026] OK, don\u2019t tell anybody, but that\u2019s kind of like saying the church is\u2026 catholic!! In both the Apostles\u2019 and the Nicene Creeds, the word \u2018Christian\u2019 was \u2018catholic\u2019 in the original Latin, and it referred to the ONE world-wide or universal church, and not to a denomination as we generally understand it today. Somehow we Lutherans seem to be \u2018allergic\u2019 to the word \u2018catholic,\u2019 so we have replaced it with the word \u2018Christian\u2019 in the Creeds because that is more palatable. But again, whereas the word \u2018Catholic\u2019 with a capital \u2018C\u2019 means the Roman Catholic Church, small \u2018c\u2019 catholic is just that broad sense of the universal church \u2013 kind of like the first use of the word I offered before \u2013 \u201cthe church founded hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

The final descriptor in the Nicene Creed is the word \u201capostolic.\u201d That means the church is built on and draws its very life from the writings of the apostles of Jesus. They are the ones who recorded the Gospels \u2013 the life, ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus \u2013 and they are the ones who, in their letters, pointed to what it means to live as followers of Jesus. When St. Paul describes the church in Ephesians 2, he writes that it is \u201cbuilt on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the chief cornerstone.\u201d What the apostles wrote about is built on the person and work of Jesus as ground zero \u2013 the center and origin of what we believe. \u2018Apostolic\u2019 can also have the sense of \u201cbeing sent,\u201d but we\u2019ll get to that when we get to the purpose of the church.<\/p>\n

There is actually one more descriptive phrase in the Apostles\u2019 Creed. There, after we say that we believe in the Holy Spirit and the Holy Christian church, we add the phrase \u201cthe communion of saints.\u201d That is a reference to the assembly \/ the gathering of all those who follow Jesus \u2013 those of the past who are already with Jesus in heaven, those of the present no matter where in the world they live, and those who will follow Jesus in the future. That is to say that the church has no bounds of time or culture or geography. Every person who is called out to faith in Jesus is part of that community of the saints.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a03. The Biblical Images of the Church<\/h4>\n

The third thing that will help to complete our view of the church is some Biblical images of the church.<\/p>\n

The first image of the church is that of a Bride. The concept of marriage runs through the Bible from beginning to end. In the 2nd<\/sup> chapter of the Bible we hear about the marriage of Adam and Eve\u2026 \u201cFor this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.\u201d The Old Testament often described the people of Israel as the Bride of God, with the Book of Hosea featuring that as a lived-out-parable in the prophet\u2019s life. The New Testament and even some parables of Jesus narrow that focus to portray the Church as the Bride of Christ and to portray the Kingdom of God in marriage and wedding terms. The church is a living group of forgiven human beings intimately joined to the bridegroom, Jesus Christ, in a relationship of love and respect and honesty and faithfulness. God\u2019s love affair with humanity reached its climax on the cross of Calvary. That\u2019s where Jesus said \u201cIt is finished!\u201d That\u2019s where Jesus bought and paid for you with His blood. That\u2019s where Jesus ultimately took us as His bride. That imagery continues until the second last chapter of the Bible where the Holy and heavenly city of Jerusalem is prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. Remembering that the truly Biblical sense of the word \u2018church\u2019 is in reference to God\u2019s people, you can consider yourself to be Christ\u2019s bride.<\/p>\n

A second image of the church is of the flock of God. This, too, is an image that runs through the entire Bible \u2013 with both Old Testament Israel and New Testament Church being portrayed as the sheep, and God and Jesus being the Shepherd. Isaiah acknowledges that we, like sheep, have gone astray from God, and Jesus, too, tells a parable about a lost sheep that the Good Shepherd diligently searches for until He finds it. Jesus commented that the crowds were like sheep without a shepherd. There are still people today that are lost from the shepherd\u2019s care because they don\u2019t know Jesus. What is first and foremost in the mind of God is that lost sheep be saved. This was the reason that He sent His Son, Jesus, to die on a cross\u2026 so that lost sheep would be saved. When they are, the sheep listen to His voice, and follow Him. The Shepherd knows His sheep and calls them by name and leads them to green pastures and still waters. Jesus is the Good Shepherd who laid down His life for the sheep, and who will bring them to the full and abundant pastures of heaven.<\/p>\n

A third image of the church, especially in the New Testament is that of the household of God. There are lots of phrases in Paul\u2019s letters especially that support and flesh out that household \/ family imagery. In Ephesians 2, Paul describes the distinction between the old reality of being foreigners to God\u2019s promises, without hope, separate from God AND the new reality of being included as members of God\u2019s household. In other places, Paul writes about being adopted into God\u2019s family, about being sons and daughters, about being brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ and therefore brothers and sisters of one another. There are a couple of passages about being disciplined as God\u2019s sons, but more about the blessings that we receive by virtue of being part of God\u2019s family of faith. We have a Father who loves us deeply, and because of that we love one another, we have a sense of belonging, we share experiences, and we help one another in time of need \u2013 rejoicing with those rejoice, and suffering with those who suffer.<\/p>\n

The fourth image of the church is that of a human Body. This is the one that was documented wonderfully in our Epistle reading from 1 Corinthians 12. Paul explained that just as in a human body all the parts, though varied in their appearance, work together for the common good, so in the church, all the members work together for the good of the whole church.<\/p>\n

The birds once got together to start a church. Mrs. Canary wanted all the emphasis on singing. \u201cSinging should be the center of our worship,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

But Mr. Owl quickly spoke up and said, \u201cNo, wisdom is most important. We need to center our church upon wisdom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then Mr. Duck stated his interest. He said, \u201cI think, whatever we do, we should build our church by a lake.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trumpeter swan spoke up at once, \u201cWe need a great pipe organ \u2013 that is what is most important for our church\u2026 a pipe organ.\u201d<\/p>\n

And so it went, with each of the birds pushing for their own interests in the church. Needless to say, that church was for the birds!<\/p>\n

It is God\u2019s church, not ours to mold which ever way we want to mold it. Because the Holy Spirit gives gifts and service, Paul says that there is no room for either despair or pride. Don\u2019t despair if you don\u2019t have public and splashy gifts and roles in the church. Don\u2019t have pride that your gifts and roles appear greater than others. All are gifted. All are needed. All contribute. All work toward the common purpose that we have been given by Christ \u2013 who, we could say, is both the head and the heart of the Body, the church. We receive our direction and our inspiration from Him.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a04. The Purpose of the Church<\/h4>\n

Finally, we need to answer the question of the purpose of the church. The best answer to that question is a two-fold answer. The first answer is that the church is meant to grow up and to grow together. We are called to develop and deepen our faith in Jesus, and we are meant to encourage and bless one another in that growth.<\/p>\n

Listen to how Paul describes it in Ephesians 4 (and he uses \u201cBody of Christ\u201d language):<\/p>\n

\u201c[God] gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God\u2019s people for works of service, so that the Body of Christ may be built up until\u00a0 we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ\u2026 Speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From Him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pastors and teachers part\u2026 we\u2019re going to save that until next Sunday. But notice that God\u2019s people are to become spiritually mature in the fullness of Christ \u2013 that\u2019s growing up in our faith, with Bible study and a full and vibrant devotion\/prayer life. And we are each to do our God-given work, works of service, so that the whole body can be held together as all the parts encourage and sustain one another. One might be in leadership. Another might give generously. A third might do acts of mercy. A fourth might teach. But they all work together for the health and strength of the body.<\/p>\n

The second purpose of the church comes from the lips of Jesus Christ, Himself. The Great Commission of Jesus to His disciples, and to us, is found in all four Gospels and also in the Book of Acts. Probably the most famous version is in Matthew 28 (something the \u201cFront to Back\u201d Bible readers are going to read tomorrow): \u201cGo and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.\u201d Just before the Ascension of Jesus, the Book of Acts records Jesus\u2019 words: \u201cWhen the Holy Spirit comes on you\u2026 you will be my witnesses\u2026 to the ends of the earth.\u201d So that\u2019s the second purpose of the church – to be the people of God in our world (remember the blue cord in these tassels \u2013 we represent the fact of God, the presence of God, the words of God to those in our circles of acquaintance)\u2026 so to be the people of God, and to proclaim the name of Jesus, and to call on those who don\u2019t know Him to follow Him in life-long discipleship. After growing up in our own faith, and after growing together in the church, we are to grow out in all the world to the ends of the earth. We do that through corporate ministry activities like the 40 or so volunteers who joyfully served at the Bible Camp we held for children this past week. But we also call people to discipleship individually as we share in one-on-one spiritual conversations with friends, co-workers and family members, or as we pray with someone at a hospital bed.<\/p>\n

The purpose of the church is to grow internally, and to grow externally\u2026. Not one or the other, not one without the other, but both together. [Oh, and if you didn\u2019t get a tassel a couple of weeks ago, I still have some left.]<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 **Bonus Material: Being the Church<\/h4>\n

OK\u2026 because you have been such attentive listeners today, I\u2019m going to add just a minute or so of bonus material on \u201cBeing the Church.\u201d This will be practical because you will need to continue to be the Church during the upcoming pastoral vacancy. So, in a month\u2019s time, you can be the church in these real and relevant ways:<\/p>\n

– care for one another \u2013 if someone is in the hospital\u2026 go visit; if someone loses a loved one\u2026 mourn with them; if someone is new here\u2026 welcome them; if someone needs a meal\u2026 don\u2019t wait for someone else to provide it.<\/p>\n

– meet together – continue your Bible Study groups, maybe start a new one; continue those prayer nights; above all continue to meet together regularly on Sundays for worship.<\/p>\n

– encourage one another \u2013 when someone has had a discouraging event \u2013 job loss, family turmoil, health uncertainty \u2013 send that person a card, make a phone call, or just listen and pray.<\/p>\n

– step up and take on roles of leadership and servanthood \u2013 it may not seem that way initially, but often those two things go together\u2026 leadership and servanthood; if you see something that needs doing, round up some people with you and get it done, because it was Paul \u2013 not Covid \u2013 that taught us\u2026 \u201cwe\u2019re in this together, we are the Body of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

– finally, give people grace \u2013 when people don\u2019t do as good a job at something as you expect or as you would have done, give them grace; they might need practice, or time, or mentoring; and forgive others when needed, knowing that you, too, have been forgiven first by God.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s what it means to BE the Church. You ARE the Church! Jesus is the Bridegroom, the Shepherd, the Head. Be His face, His presence to your world. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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