going on to maturity unit four: living as the people of god
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Going On To Maturity
Unit Four: Living as the People of God
Going On To Maturity
Lesson Fourteen: The Holy Christian Church
The Church What is the Holy Christian Church? What is a visible church?
What is the Holy Christian Church?
Question 235 (p. 197)
Ephesians 5:231 Corinthians 1:2
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
All believers in Christ of every time and place
Why “Holy”?
Question 236 (p. 197)
Ephesians 5:25-27
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
All believers in Christ of every time and place
Why “Holy”?Sins are
washed away
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
All believers in Christ of every time and place
Why “Christian”?
Question 237 (p. 199)
Ephesians 2:19-20
Acts 11:26
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
All believers in Christ of every time and place
Why “Christian”?Trusts only in Jesus Christ
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
All believers in Christ of every time and place
Why “Church”?Called out of
darkness
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
Communion of Saints
All believers in Christ of every time and place
=
Why “Communion”?
Question 238 (p. 199)
John 10:16
1 Corinthians 12:13
Ephesians 4:3-6
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
Communion of Saints
All believers in Christ of every time and place
=
Why “Communion”?
One spiritual
body
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
Communion of Saints
All believers in Christ of every time and place
=
Why “Saints”?
Sins washed away
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
Communion of Saints
All believers in Christ of every time and place
=
Invisible Church
Why “invisible”
?Question 239 (p. 199-200)
Luke 17:20-21
1 Samuel 16:7
2 Timothy 2:19
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Holy Christian Church
Communion of Saints
All believers in Christ of every time and place
=
Invisible Church
Faith is in the heart (can’t see it)
Why “invisible”
?
What is the Holy Christian Church?
Invisible Church
How do we find the true Church?
Question 240 (p. 200)
Ephesians 5:25-26
John 10:16
Question 241 (p. 200-1)
Matthew 28:19-20
Isaiah 55:10-11
Matthew 18:20
What is the Holy Christian Church?
Invisible Church
How do we find the true Church?
The Gospel in Word and Sacrament
What is the Holy Christian Church?
The Gospel in Word and Sacrament
Marks of the Church:
The gospel is preached and
the sacraments
are administered
in the way Jesus
instituted them
What is a visible church?
Question 242 (p. 201)
Revelation 3:4
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
Any expression of
the church we can see
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Denominations Congregation
s
Grace
Trinity
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Churches only because of the
believers present
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Visible churches can have
hypocrites
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Which church do we join?
Question 243 (p. 201)
1 John 4:1
1 Thessalonians
5:21-22
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Which church do we join?
Question 244 (p. 201-2)
John 8:31
2 Timothy 4:3-4
Hebrews 13:9
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Which church do we join?
We examine their
teachings! (Confessions
)
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
WELS
Catholic Church
Grace
Trinity
Which church do we join?
“The Need For
Confessions”
pp. 202-3
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
Not all religious groups are
CHURCHES!!!
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mormons
False Christ
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mormons
False Christ
Cult:
Non-Christian groups or groups that falsely claim to be Christian
What is a visible church?
Visible churches
Not all religions are true!!!