In this episode of the UACC Sermon Podcast, we delve into what the church is. Is it a community, a club, or an enclave? Can Christians be as effective on their own compared to a church body? To what degree should Christians engage in the American culture?
Here are the passages used to support the arguments:
"For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." - 1 Corinthians 3:11 ESV
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world." - John 17:20-24
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." - Philippians 2:5-11
"As it is, there are many parts, yet one body." - 1 Corinthians 12:20
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace..." - Ephesians 1:3-8