- 00:00
- I think that there are well -meaning, genuine Christians out there today who really just have no idea what the church is to be.
- 00:10
- In the churches that they are in, they're not privy to or understanding of the true beauty of the church.
- 00:18
- So like, they know they should be in church, they're there, they don't see the full beauty of it, they don't understand the worship of the church, the leadership of the church, the mission of the church.
- 00:30
- They feel maybe there's something missing, but they've just accepted the church's impotency.
- 00:38
- And then when they begin to see a healthy church, sometimes their first reaction is not embracing, like, oh, this is what
- 00:48
- I've always missed. Sometimes their first reaction is, that's weird.
- 00:58
- That's not what I know. If you're honest, most of us were once there, you were there, too.
- 01:12
- It seems to me that Satan has a great strategy of just keeping some Christians in a perpetual loop of ignorance when it comes to the beautiful things of God.
- 01:23
- And so I bring up this example, this application, because it's really one of the things that we're trying to do here to stand our ground.
- 01:32
- We preach, and we teach, and we lead Bible studies, all because we're trying to promote
- 01:39
- God's truth, because we believe an ignorant church is an impotent church. And so it is our desire here to focus on this.
- 01:48
- This is what we are doing, and this is why we are doing it, right?
- 01:56
- And everything that we do here must have a ground in God's word, and we want to equip the saints.
- 02:03
- Because what can happen, as I said, is sometimes ignorance can actually be a hindrance to the church.
- 02:09
- The church is unable to move forward because of those who wind up finding themselves in opposition, at least initially, to the very things of God.
