The Completeness of Christ

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Ephesians 122-23

• The Church Christ Built is Sufficient

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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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         What we want, if men become Christians
at all, is to keep them in the state of mind I
call Christianity And. You know -- Christianity
and the Crisis, Christianity and the New
Psychology, Christianity and the New Order,
Christianity and Faith Healing, Christianity and
Psychical Research, Christianity and
Vegetarianism, Christianity and Spelling Reform.
If they must be Christians, let them at least be
Christians with a difference. Substitute for the
faith itself some Fashion with a Christian
colouring. Work on their horror of the Same Old
Thing. C.S. Lewis Screwtape Letters
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The Church And
Basketball player's illness raises questions of
faith.

• "Prayer is part of the fabric of Libscomb
  University. Associated with the Churches of
  Christ, the four-year liberal arts school.
• SunNews AP, Religion (C8, 10 March, 2000)

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The Church And
Impact World Tour uses unique approach to spread
message to young. By Lyn McKinley The Bulletin
(Vol. 32, No. 10) page 1

• "When I gave my heart to Jesus, I was not
  following a church or denomination. I was
  following Jesus.
• Our main goal here is to show people about Jesus
  Christ-not about religion-but about having a
  relationship with God.
• Tatiana (25 yr old dancer from Brazil)

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The Church And
Impact World Tour uses unique approach to spread
message to young. By Lyn McKinley The Bulletin
(Vol. 32, No. 10) page 1

• "Impact World Tour's skaters, weightlifters and
  fire-eaters are the new wave of evangelism, he
  says. "It's a bit different from Billy Graham,
  with the choirs and the sermons. But this is what
  we need because the church had become so
  irrelevant."
• Steve Smith, World Tour Coordinator

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The Church And
Impact World Tour uses unique approach to spread
message to young. By Lyn McKinley The Bulletin
(Vol. 32, No. 10) page 1

• "Some people may not like the Jesus bit, but
  they like the entertainment."
• Steve Smith, World Tour Coordinator

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The Church And
Impact World Tour uses unique approach to spread
message to young. By Lyn McKinley The Bulletin
(Vol. 32, No. 10) page 1

• Something like GXJam relates to kids. It
  attracts them. And you have to go where kids are
  so you can form relationships that you wouldn't
  at church,
• Rick Rivera, Young Life Director

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Fullness Only In Christ
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Fullness Only In Christ
Christ Fills All

• Ephesians 122,23
  "And He put all things under His feet, and gave
  Him to be head over all things to the church,
  which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills
  all in all."

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Fullness Only In Christ
Fullness as used in Ephesians 122-23

• The idea of what fills yields such senses as
  "entirety," "mass," "totality," "full measure,"
  "consummation,' TDNT

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Fullness Only In Christ
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Fullness Only In Christ
Christ
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Fullness Only In Christ
Ephesians 122-23

• Bible In Basic English
• "And he has put all things under his feet, and
  has made him to be head over all things to the
  church, Which is his body, the full measure of
  him in whom all things are made complete."

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Fullness Only In Christ
The Bible is Our ONLY Source

• 2 Timothy 316-17
  All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and
  is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
  correction, for instruction in righteousness,
  that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly
  equipped for every good work.

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Fullness Only In Christ
Christ Is the Head of the Church

• How can we separate the head from the body?
• The church is a manifestation of the
  fullness/completeness of Christ.
• What Does Something thats complete lack?

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Fullness Only In Christ
The Work of The Body

• Teach Christians (Eph 411-16).
• Support an evangelist.
• Philippians 415,16, "Now you Philippians know
  also that in the beginning of the gospel, when I
  departed from Macedonia, no church shared with me
  concerning giving and receiving but you only. 16
  For even in Thessalonica you sent aid once and
  again for my necessities.

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Fullness Only In Christ
The Work of The Body

• Teach Christians (Eph 411-16).
• Support an evangelist.
• 2 Corinthians 118 "I robbed other churches,
  taking wages from them to minister to you."
• No connection between congregations

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Fullness Only In Christ
The Work of The Body

• Teach Christians (Eph 411-16).
• Support an evangelist.
• Aid other saints in need.
• 1 Corinthians 161-3, And when I come, whomever
  you approve by your letters I will send to bear
  your gift to Jerusalem."

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The Church The Desire To
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The Church The Desire To
Add/change the church

•    The church is not a lodge recruiting members.
  It is not a pub for the neighborhood. It is not a
  frat house enlisting pledges. It is not a
  community center where parties are held. It is
  not a country club for the masses. It is not a
  city precinct meeting where the communities
  problems are addressed. It is not a court to
  rectify society's injustices. It is not an open
  forum, or a political convention, or even an
  evangelistic rally.
• John McArthur, Ashamed of the Gospel

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The Church The Desire To
Unify (Denominationalism) the church

•    "The church... is not one congregation or
  assembly, but the congregation of Christ,
  composed of Christ, composed of all the
  individual congregations on earth."
• Alexander Campbell
  (Millennial Harbinger, July 1834, p.315)

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The Church The Desire To
Organize through cooperation ("Institutionalism")

• Missionary Societies intended to further
  evangelism.
• "The establishment of this society marked the
  climax of years of intense effort on the part of
  Alexander Campbell to urge the brotherhood to
  found some kind of a general organization through
  which the entire brotherhood could cooperate to
  evangelize the world." Earl West
  (In Search of The Ancient Order, Vol. 1 pg. 166

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The Church The Desire To
Organize through cooperation ("Institutionalism")

• "Sponsoring Church" Arrangements.
• Entails many churches sending money to one
  sponsoring church, whose elders then oversaw the
  entire project

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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
This Is Human Reasoning

• Isaiah 558,9 "For
  My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your
  ways My ways," says the LORD. "For as the heavens
  are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher
  than your ways, And My thoughts than your
  thoughts."

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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
This Is Human Reasoning

• Hebrews 85, "who
  serve the copy and shadow of the heavenly things,
  as Moses was divinely instructed when he was
  about to make the tabernacle. For He said, "See
  that you make all things according to the pattern
  shown you on the mountain."

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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
The Divert us from our own personal
responsibilities

• 1 Timothy 54 "But if
  any widow has children or grandchildren, let them
  first learn to show piety at home and to repay
  their parents for this is good and acceptable
  before God."

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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
The Divert us from our own personal
responsibilities

• 1 Timothy 516 "If any
  believing man or woman has widows, let them
  relieve them, and do not let the church be
  burdened, that it may relieve those who are
  really widows."

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The Implied Insufficiency of The Church
The Divert us from our own personal
responsibilities

• James 127 Pure and
  undefiled religion before God and the Father is
  this to visit orphans and widows in their
  trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the
  world.