The Purpose of Church

Ephesians 2.19-22

Ephesians 5.25-27Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word…

Ephesians 5.25-27…so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

1 Corinthians 12.12-17For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit…

1 Corinthians 12.12-17For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body…

1 Corinthians 12.12-17…And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

Ephesians 2.19-22So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets…

Ephesians 2.19-22…Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit.

Everywhere, Always, by All• The triune God as Creator and Redeemer• The fall and resulting depravity• The person and work of Christ• Salvation by grace through faith• Inspiration and authority of Scripture• Redeemed humanity incorporated into

Christ• The restoration of humanity and creation

Nicene CreedWe believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in the one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father;

Nicene CreedBy whom all things were made; Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man; He suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into heaven; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost.

Everywhere, Always, by All• The triune God as Creator and Redeemer• The fall and resulting depravity• The person and work of Christ• Salvation by grace through faith• Inspiration and authority of Scripture• Redeemed humanity incorporated into

Christ• The restoration of humanity and creation

The Purpose of Church

Ephesians 2.19-22