Part 4: Our Father’s House
The New Testament contains so many commands about how we are to treat people within our local church. Why? The Church is how God manifests His love, comfort, encouragement, guidance, and exhortation in our lives. If we never go home, we can’t expect to enjoy the love of our parents and siblings. Let’s make FBC the family we’re all hungry for.
If we are the Temple where redemption happens, what is our plan to draw people to Him? The answer is to relearn an ancient, almost forgotten practice: Hospitality. In a time when loneliness is an epidemic, when few people know their neighbors, something as simple as a meal together can be the starting place for something beautiful to happen.
When our bond with God was severed by our sin, He didn’t give up on us. He made a second Eden, a place for us to meet with Him and be redeemed. That place was the Temple, and the events that happened there teach us about a God who is mighty to save, the cost of our sin, and His plans for us.
