Church Community • How the Gospel Changes Us

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We've been going through this commission series, and this morning we're going to sort of wrap it up.

So we're glad that you're here for that.

We're going to be in 1 Corinthians chapter 12.

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Verses 12 through 26 will be our predominant text this morning.

1 Corinthians chapter 12, verses 12 through 26.

1 Corinthians 12:12–26

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First Corinthians chapter 12, verses 12 through 26.

1 Corinthians 12:12–26

Would you read this with me?

This is the word of the Lord.

For 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 and Greeks, slaves are free, and all were made to drink of one spirit.

For 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 part of the body.

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 part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing?

And if the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

If all were a single member were member, where would the body be?

As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable, we bestow the greater honor, and our unrepresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require, but God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another, and if one member suffers, all suffer together.

If one member is honored, all rejoice together.

This is God's word.

Praise be to God.

Would you pray with me?

Father, we thank you for your good and perfect word.

We pray this morning that by your spirit our hearts would hear and receive and adjust where necessary, that your Holy Spirit would prod us in ways to consider what you're saying to us through the Apostle Paul here.

That we would not just comprehend what a community is, what a church community is, but God, we would then invest our lives in this community into which you've called us.

May your spirit have his way among us this morning.

We will give you all of the glory.

We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ.

Amen and amen.

Thank you.

Over the last few weeks, as we said, we've been in this series titled Commissions, as we have considered the role that God has called us to play in the advancement of the gospel, the advancement of his kingdom throughout the world.

We've seen what it means to be a gospel-centered people, how a deep understanding and a deep belief of the gospel should inform and fuel all that we do.

Last week we discussed what it means to be city focused.

As we looked at the Great Commission and the promise of victory that Jesus gave, as he sends us out to make disciples of all nations, Jesus promised, all authority is mine, both in heaven and on earth, and then in that authority, in the confidence of that power, Jesus then sends us out to make disciples, to baptize, to teach.

And today, as we conclude this series, we're going to spend our time looking at what it means to be a church community.

This is a phrase that you hear often here at Missio, if you've been here any amount of time.

Every week we say we strive to be a church that establishes and multiplies gospel-centered, city-focused church communities.

And in our text today, we see that the Apostle Paul, who is the author of this letter to these Corinthian believers, describes for us what it means and what it looks like to be a church community.

In the broader context of what Paul is saying here, he's instructing the Corinthian believers on how to worship together as a people marked by the gospel and marked by the work of the Holy Spirit among them.

He tells them how to walk in freedom when it comes to interacting with and evangelizing or sharing the gospel with those who are outside the family that is unbelievers.

He gives us instructions on the Lord's Supper, how it's not to be abused or used as an occasion for division or even an occasion for the oppression of the poor among us.

Then he writes of the beautiful ways in which the Holy Spirit distributes gifts to God's people for the edification of one another, for the building up of the church.

This is the context in which we find ourselves.

And in that context, Paul says: just like the human body has many members or many parts that all make up the one body, so it is the same with the body of Christ.

And he describes for us, he instructs us on how we're to understand and live as the body, or we could say it like this: how we're to live as a church community.

So as we dive into this text, let me start by giving you a summary statement.

If you walk away with nothing else, I hope you'll write this down and meditate on this.

Consider this this week.

Here it is.

Through the gospel, we have been made into a diverse and unified family of faith.

Through the gospel, we have been made into a diverse and unified family of faith.

Paul describes this family in at least four specific ways here in 1 Corinthians chapter 12.

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Let's walk through them.

First, we see Paul communicates to us that we are a unified family.

Look at verses 12 and 13 with me.

For 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, both Jews or Greeks, slaves are free, and all were made to drink of one spirit.

Paul says, just like the body has many parts that all come together to make up this one body, so it is with the family of God.

The many have been brought together to make this one messy and yet beautiful family or community.

And Paul says that this family is one that is unified or one that is united.

And the foundation of this unity is the fact that we have first and foremost been united to Christ.

Through the gospel, we have been made one with Jesus Christ.

He has identified with us, and we are identified with him.

This is a striking aspect of the gospel that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, without reservation or qualification, identifies with us.

This is why, brothers and sisters, we can stand holy before God.

This is why we can stand as righteous, being declared righteous, not because we have earned it, but because Jesus, the Son of God, has identified himself with us.

To say that we are a unified family is to say that we are unified first and foremost with Jesus, who is the Son of God and who is our older brother.

And through his work of redemption, through his death, burial, and resurrection, his ascension, his mediation between us and God, he has identified himself with a people.

And then, because we are united or identified with Christ, we are then united with the saints.

That is, we're united with our brothers and sisters in Christ.

We are one people, one body throughout time and throughout space.

The saints of old and the saints who will come hundreds of years from now if Jesus does not return.

We are in communion with all of them.

We are united with them.

We're one covenant people over whom God has declared, I will be your God and you will be my people.

We're fellow citizens with the saints, as Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2.

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The author of the book of Hebrews, chapter 12, verse 1, he writes this Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.

Hebrews 12:1

The author communicates that we are surrounded by the witnesses from the past who have been faithful to Jesus, who have been faithful to his church, and we are in union with them.

We're unified with them.

But this affirmation is not only in relation to our communion with the global and the historic church, but it most certainly informs our view of the local church.

This local expression of the global body and the historic body of Christ.

This group of people is not simply a group of friends that we've chosen because we like to hang out together.

Now it's not that, at least most of the time.

But that's not primarily who we are.

This is a covenant community in which God has placed us both for the mutual benefit and the sanctification of one another.

We're in communion not only with the saints of old and with the saints across the nations, but the most constant and consistent representation of that is this local assembly in which we find ourselves.

Every week when we gather, we're affirming the communion of saints.

Every time we gather around this bread, around this cup, every time we baptize, every time we sit down for a meal together in our homes, when we gather to bear one another's burdens, when we rejoice with one another, all of this preaches to us that we are not alone, that we're not simply individuals, but we are a body.

We're a family.

Redeemed by Jesus and united to Him, the train agrees.

And united to one another because of Christ.

First and foremost, a church community is a unified people.

Not just simply because we like each other, but because we have been brought into a family by the grace of God expressed in the work of Jesus Christ.

I will be your God, and you will be my people.

Not my person, though we do not in any way think that this diminishes the uniqueness of the person, and we'll get to that in a minute.

But it's not, it's certainly not less than that, but it's much, much, much more.

You will be my people.

Paul also in verse 13 communicates that we're not, we're also unified by baptism in the Spirit, or by the Spirit.

Verse 13, for in one spirit we were all baptized into one body.

Jews or Greeks, slaves are free, and all were made to drink of one spirit.

When he talks, he he uses this uh parenthetical phrase, Jews are Greek, slaves are free.

He's giving the extremes.

He's saying background, uh, context, where you're from, how you were raised, none of that matters.

None of that gains you any more or any less place in the body of Christ.

It's this union that has been brought to us by Jesus Christ that matters, both Jew or Greek, slave or free.

We're all made to drink of this one spirit.

We've all been baptized into one body.

In baptism, we receive the visible sign and grace of entrance into the visible body of Christ.

That is the church community.

Baptism isn't just getting wet, it's not just ritual or tradition, it is the very means of grace by which the Spirit of God unites us to one another in covenant community.

The Apostle Paul in uh Ephesians chapter 4, verses 4 to 6, he writes this.

Ephesians 4:4–6

He says, There is one body and one spirit.

Just as you are called to the one hope that belongs to your call, he says, One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

One Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Just as we are united together by faith to trust in the one Lord Jesus Christ, so does the Spirit unite us together in one baptism.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as we come together in this church community, having been united to Christ and united to one another.

We are a unified family.

Second, we see Paul also communicating to us that we are a diverse family with diverse gifts.

Look at verse 14 with me.

For the body does not consist of one member, but many.

If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body, excuse me, that would not make it any less part of the body.

And if the ear should say, Because I'm not an eye, I don't belong to the body, that wouldn't make it any less part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?

If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?

But as it is, God arranged the members of the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.

If all were a single member, where would the body be?

As it were, there are many parts and yet one body.

We're not all hands, Paul says.

We're not all ears.

In other words, we are a diverse family.

God has, in his grace, brought us together and has gifted each of us uniquely and diversely for the good of the family as a whole.

If we were all teachers but none of us had the gift of hospitality, this would not be a very well, it'd be an informed place, but not a very welcoming place.

If we all had the gift of discernment, but no one could teach, we'd be pretty critical.

But we wouldn't be very healthy, we'd be weak.

And so God has very wisely and kindly assembled a diverse family with diverse gifts so that we all are able to minister together for the glory of God and for the good of one another.

Some of us may fall into one of two traps, which this reality of diversity among the body speaks.

First, some of us might believe that because we don't have a certain gifting that we think might be a more beneficial gifting, that we're not important or we don't matter to the family as a whole.

See, I could I could never do that.

There's no way that I can contribute to this body if I can't do this.

But the Holy Spirit, through the writing of Paul here, confronts this false narrative by saying that God has uniquely arranged this family as he chose and as he saw fit.

So if he has placed you here, then he has uniquely gifted you to contribute to the good of this family for his glory.

And so don't look at your brother or your sister and say, I don't have that gift, and so I can't contribute.

The Holy Spirit has kindly, for our good, put you here.

Brother or sister, who you doubt what God is doing in you, and that you can then love and serve this body, can I say to you, we need you.

We can't be who God has called us to be without you.

The second trap is that some of us think that because others don't have the same gifting that we have, that they're not useful to the family.

The Holy Spirit also speaks to this pride.

And says that even if you have more visible giftings, you alone are not a body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing, the Apostle Paul asks?

It's an absurd thing to even think about.

Is he saying that the eye doesn't matter?

No.

He's saying that we need both eyes and ears because an eye isn't an ear.

And so if the propensity of my heart is to look at others and say they don't have my gifting, and so they don't matter, that crushes the whole idea of what Paul is saying is a family.

It deconstructs what it means.

It tears apart what it means to be a true church community if I allow pride.

To let me look at you and say, because you can't do things that I can do, you don't matter.

That destroys what it means to be a church community.

This reality of a diverse family with diverse gifts combats both our self-loathing and our self-centered pride by pointing us to the beauty of the body of Christ as we function together for each other's good and for the glory of Jesus.

Next, we see that we're a dependent family.

Verse 21.

Nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable.

And on those parts of the body that we think less honorable, we bestow the greater honor.

And our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts, our more presentable parts do not require.

We're a dependent family.

Paul communicates that not only are we diverse in who we are and in our gifting, but it's actually necessary that we are such.

By putting us in a body, in a family with other brothers and sisters who have gifts that are different than mine and who can help help me grow up.

I need you in order to look more and more like Jesus.

You need me so that you can look more and more like Jesus, so that you can grow in sanctification, so that you can grow in compassion and in hospitality and in teaching and in wisdom.

We need one another.

The ordinary means by which God grows us is a Holy Spirit-filled community.

This is why I'm jumping ahead here.

This is why isolation is so dangerous.

Because we can't actually function as believers, and I would argue as human in isolation.

We are absolutely dependent upon one another.

Not only for our flourishing in the here and now, but also for our growth in Christ's likeness.

As we move toward eternity together, as we exercise our gifts for each other's good, one theologian said it like this: Sanctification is a community project.

Fourth, we are a beautifully composed family.

Look around the middle of verse 24.

It says, But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

If one member suffers, all suffer together.

If one member is honored, all rejoice together.

This is a wonderful reality that we are not simply together by happenstance.

Rather, God in his infinite wisdom and his sovereign grace has composed this family as he has seen fit to do so.

He has put us together not arbitrarily or without reason, but with divine intent.

So when you begin to doubt why God has you here, or why God has you a part of the church that you're a part of, when you begin to believe the lie that you cannot contribute to the good of the family, remember that God has sovereignly placed you in community for your good and for the good of all else who are a part of it.

With my daughters, we there's a couple of things that we talk about every day, and one of them is I'll ask Willow, I said, uh, I'll say, hey, Willow, who who loves you?

And she'll say, Daddy does, or mommy will be asking her, Mommy does.

Willow, is there anything that you could ever do to make me not love you?

No, Dad, there's nothing you can do.

Is there somebody who loves you more than that, Willow?

And typically she'll say something like, Brooklyn, who's the girl in her class, or uh Miss Crewe, or we'll have to go through a list, and eventually she'll say, Jesus loves me even more than that.

And then we'll get to talk about how if Jesus loves us more than anybody else can even fathom loving us, then whatever we face today, we can walk through.

We can be okay because we know that Jesus loves us.

And brothers and sisters, here's the beauty in this reality that Jesus, that God in his sovereignty has composed us as a family.

Does Jesus love you more than anything or anybody else loves you?

Does Jesus love you more?

Then the reality is that he is sovereignly working in your life and working in this community to bring about your good and your flourishing and to bring about ultimately the glory of God in this world.

But if we are rooted in the reality that Jesus loves us and that Jesus is composing all of this for our good and for his glory, then we can function in a body that sometimes gets messy.

We can be hurt, and rather than allowing that hurt to create or to grow a disunity, we can lean into it, and we can call one another to repentance.

We can deal with the strife rather than letting the strife destroy us.

Why?

Because we know that Jesus loves us and Jesus has placed us in this body for our good and for his glory.

And so that hurt does not surprise him.

He's not caught off guard by your discomfort.

He's not confounded by the ways in which you feel as if you should be clicking or should be meshing with other people.

And maybe it's difficult, maybe the relationship is hard.

I'm talking about relationships within the context of the church community.

And rather than just pulling up roots and leaving the family, we can trust that Jesus has sovereignly placed us here, not only for our good, but for the good of our brothers and sisters as well.

He has not brought us together by mistake or without purpose.

No, he has beautifully composed this church community.

We see that in a few ways.

You see how he's built us, how he's composed us.

He's built us for unity.

Verse 24 says, But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body.

He's put us together for the sake of unity.

An answer to Jesus' very prayer in the garden in John 17, he prayed this, Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one even as we are one.

He has built us for unity.

In Paul's instruction, the few paragraphs before, when he's giving instructions around the Lord's table, there were those who were coming to the table, and they were, in essence, what was happening is they were bringing the more wealthy in the congregation, were bringing the better wine, were bringing more food, and rather than sharing it with the family and being a true community, they were hoarding it for themselves.

And so there were brothers and sisters over here who were hungry at the Lord's table, and there were brothers and sisters over here who were getting drunk off of wine and full off of good food, all in the same community.

And Paul is saying, you are eating and drinking in an unworthy manner.

Not necessarily because you're doing it wrong in the wrong order, whatever.

He says you're doing it because you're not being unified.

You're creating division.

When I have built you for unity.

Verse 24, but God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

Doesn't matter if you're Jew or Greek, doesn't matter if you're slave or free, doesn't matter if you're rich or poor, same care for one another.

And if one member suffers, we all suffer.

And if one member rejoices, we all rejoice.

This is what it means to be a true church community, that we live and function together for the good of each other and for the glory of God.

If one of us suffers, the rest of us come alongside and bear that burden with them.

We don't say the Lord bless you and keep you and then keep walking.

We enter into the suffering and we suffer with them.

Does that sound familiar?

Because, friends, that's exactly what Jesus did for us.

When we were stuck in our self-induced suffering, that our own sin had brought upon us, that the curse of this world had brought upon us, Jesus did not simply walk past on the other side of the street and say, Bless you and keep you and keep walking.

Jesus humbled himself and entered into our suffering, brothers and sisters.

And suffered with us so that we could flourish.

And that is what Jesus calls us to do in the church community.

To enter into the suffering of our brothers and sisters so that we flourish.

We distort what it means to be family by seeking to live in isolation.

Some of us do this by hiding, not wanting to be truly known or seen.

Others do this by receiving the benefits of others' gifts while refusing to exercise the gifts that God has given us for the express purpose of the good of our brothers and sisters.

We refuse to exercise those gifts.

And in doing either of these, we in essence cut ourselves off from the family, from the body, seeking to rather live in isolation.

There are many problems with this, but the greatest is that isolation misses the point of both the gospel, which brings us into a family, and it misses the very point of what it means to be truly human.

In the beginning, before sin entered into this world, before brokenness entered into this world, God looked at this man that he had created and said, It is not good that he would be alone.

And then he put him in covenant community.

And so when we live in isolation, friends, not only are we misunderstanding what the gospel has called us to, but we are misunderstanding what it means to be truly and fully human.

It's the sin in this world and the sin in our hearts that drives us to want to be unknown and separate from others in intimate and covenantal ways.

But this is the beauty of the gospel.

In Christ, all who trust in him by faith are made into a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Once you were not a people, but now you were God's people.

Once you had not received mercy, now you have received mercy.

And because of this, we don't have to live in isolation.

We don't have to live being unknown.

Christ calls us and the Spirit empowers us to live life in community, knowing and being known, discipling and being discipled, receiving the gifts of others while exercising our gifts for the good and for the glory of God.

This is the beauty of what it means to be a church community.

We are not islands unto ourselves.

Rather, we are members of a body.

A unified, gloriously diverse, dependent, wonderfully composed body of disciples.

So if that's true, what are some ways that that should impact our lives?

Let me give you three ways in which we can walk this out or pursue church community.

First, be known in community.

Be known.

Now, to a heart that desires isolation, I understand the weight of what it means when we say be known.

That's not easy.

No one claims that it is.

Paul certainly doesn't.

But what it takes is familiarity.

We can't walk into a family one time, eat dinner, and never come back and say, I'm known.

It takes familiarity and walking with one another.

How do we know how to bear the sufferings of each other if we're not familiar with one another enough to know when there's suffering present?

It takes transparency and honesty.

It takes me being willing to pull back the curtain and let you peek into my sin, into my weakness, into my anxiety, into my struggle.

It takes me being transparent enough to say, hey, my natural bent is to run, and so I need you to pull me back in.

Be known.

Second, discover and exercise your gifts in community.

Ask questions.

Hey, we've been around each other for a little while.

Are there what are some ways that you see God working in my life, or maybe some gifts that you see me fleshing out a little bit?

Can you help me understand this?

Ask questions.

Hear wisdom.

If you say, yeah, man, I've got the gift of teaching, and then everyone who's ever heard you teach say, nah, bro.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, you may not have the gift.

But we don't know that aside from community.

Discover and exercise your gift and community.

We need.

And lastly, pray for unity and community.

God has created us.

He has made us to be one.

And his prayer in the garden for us to his father was Father, make them one.

Like we are one.

This is how the gospel changes us.

This is what it means to be a true church community.

And my prayer for us, brothers and sisters, is that we dive deep into this.

Would you pray with me?

Father, by your spirit, would you help us to desire and to grow in community?

That it wouldn't simply be a tagline, but we would understand that it's integral to who we are as both human and Christian.

That we would bear one another's burdens, that we would rejoice together, all in the context of being known and knowing.

We pray this in Christ's name, amen.

This morning, in response to the reading and the preaching of the word, we want to create some space for you to respond.

We find that to be the rhythm in Scripture.

And so we want to allow space for that.

There are three ways, uh, mainly that that you can respond this morning.

First is my prayer.

If you simply want to sit in your seat and pray and ask that the Lord would work on your heart or reveal some things to you, if you want someone to pray with you, I'll be back at the sound uh booth in the back for uh at least the first song or so in the next part of our liturgy.

I'd be more than happy to pray for you.

Or if it's something private, you can uh check on the connect card for pastors only, and I'll promise you only pastors will see it and pray for that and respond.

Second way is by giving.

We believe that in response to the generosity of God, he has called us to be a generous people.

And so we want to give space for that this morning.

This is particularly for our members and regular attenders.

If today's your first time here, we don't expect this from you.

We're just glad that you're here that you can give this morning.

And third, and the main way that we respond is through communion or through the Lord's supper.

We saw this morning in 1 Corinthians how Jesus has not simply saved us as individuals, but he has saved us and welcomed us into a family.

And every week when we come to this table, this is a covenant renewal in a sense.

Where we recognize that Jesus has brought us into a family and has welcomed us to a table that is not rightly ours, but has brought us and made us a place because of his grace and his gift.

And so if you're part of the family this morning, if you have trusted by faith alone in Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and to make you right with God, if you've been baptized into the church, then we welcome you to the table.

Even if you're not a member here at celebration or at uh Mystio Day, haven't done that in a while, um uh we we welcome you uh to the table.

If you're a first-time guest, or even if you've been here uh every gathering that we've had, but you are you have not trusted in Christ, you are still perhaps relying on other means to save you, then uh first I want to say that we are so glad that you're here.

I'd love the opportunity, the elders would love the opportunity to talk to you about that.

But then second, I would uh I would ask that you not uh come to the table, not because we think there's anything divine in the bread or divine in the cup, but we believe this is God's grace to uh his family this morning.

And so uh if you are not believing the gospel, then we would simply ask you to abstain from the table and pray and ask that God would show himself to you and give you the faith to believe the gospel.

That's the main way that we want to respond this morning.

As we lead into that, uh, I want to lead us in a corporate confession of sin.

If you recognize this week that you have fallen short of keeping God's word, of living a life obedient to Him, of loving God with your heart, mind, soul, and strength.

Would you join me in confessing that as we are assured that through the gospel our sins are been forgiven?

You can pray this with me.

Merciful God, through Christ, we have been brought into your family.

Though sometimes we run back to the darkness of isolation.

We seek to hide when you have given us the grace to be seen.

Forgive us for staying in the shadows and bring us back by your mercy into the light of being known.

Amen.

I'd encourage you to take the next couple of moments to reflect and pray, and then uh our worship leaders will uh invite us to come and uh and take up the table.

Come to the table.

All who hunger for Christ's righteousness and thirst to live in obedience.

Take.

Remember and believe that the body of Christ is the bread of heaven given for the nourishment of our faith.

Take and drink.

Remember and believe that the blood of Christ is the cup of our salvation, given for the cleansing of our sins.

In this supper, God declares to us that our sins have been completely forgiven through the one sacrifice of Jesus Christ, which he himself finished on the cross once and for all.

In his resurrection, we are grafted into Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Your death, O Christ, we proclaim with boldness.

Your resurrection will be affirmed with joy, your coming will be await with hope.

Glory be to you, Lord Jesus.

And on his shoulders bring back to his fold again while angels until the cause the love that's on me o' the blood on me, oh the grace that brought me to the form of God.

His grace that brought me to the full of God.

It seems as if feature are far too short to sing his pray the blood on me, oh the grace that brought me to the full of God.

It's grace that brought me to the full of God.

His grace has brought me to the full of God.

We were lost and dead and sin for us.

Look what God has, he's adopted us.

We were orphans without his children.

Oh we that he would save us all we that he would send us to the glory to Christmas to the glory to my start saving for everyone Look what God has done through his sacrifice for no one centers unified by brains down together.

Look what God has done by his spirit through his time, by the power of his hand is standing.

Do Christ not save me all the time for the lift your hand and bless See the command.

See this mercy for us, lift your voice in the hell.

See the church he's building, see the lust he's saving.

Look at Jesus Christ, he redeems his precious blood by his costly sacrifice.

We're invited only that he would save us Holly that he would send us to God be glory Do Christ our save to our generation to God be glory to Christ our save for and ever and ever lift your head in fighting hell See is great, compassion, see his mercy for us raise your voice in hell see the church he's building, see the lust he's saving.

Praise to the Father who is able to do far more abundantly all that we ask or think.

Glory be to Christ, in whom the whole body is joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped.

Let us walk in a manner worthy of our calling with all humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace.

Amen.

We're gonna sing about the finished work of Christ.

If you sing it out loud.

Only by the work of Jesus can salvation be secured.

It is beneath He has done it.

Let your rejoice, our redemption is accomplished, raise a down dragon voice, and go bravely into battle knowing he has won the war.

It is penance, lift your hands, let me know.

There's no sacrifice to offer.

There's no penance to complete.

Freely drink of living water without money come and please.

And go bring it with me into battle.

Knowing we had one the war.

It is minute.

Let your hand let every spin a reading the nine twist of the time.

Raise up your mother singing out through earth and sky.

Let's go in, ring, I read the wind.

I read the time is a mumplet.

Raise us down in the ragged boys and go bravely to battle.

Knowing he has won the war.

It is finished with joy and we know more.

Amen.

Alright, everyone, don't forget if you have Kinect cards, you can place them in the receptacles in the front or in the back.

If you want to get hooked up with communities, you can see Justin at the welcome desk in the back.

And if you need any more information about meetups or things going on at Miss Yo, you can find it on our app or our website.

Read the benediction with me, please.

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another in accordance with Christ Jesus that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Peace be with you.

Thanks.

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