Part 1-Be the Church: Connect with the Lord
Type of Event: Worship Service: Sermon only
Date Recorded: July 15, 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Topics: The Lord / God
Welcome to our series, "Don't Just Go to Church, Be the Church!" The church is not the priesthood, nor is it some abstract thing apart from you. The church is simply the group of people who follow the Lord, and you are called to be one of them. For the next several Sundays we will be talking about what it means to be citizens of the Lords' kingdom on earth.
In our first part, "Connect with the Lord", we begin by reviewing what our personal, individual responsibilities to the Lord are. Put briefly, there are seven things the Lord wants us to do: (1) Pray, (2) Read the Word, (3) Worship, (4) Repent, (5) Shun evils, (6) Serve other people, and (7) Regenerate, or be born again. The first three are what are sometimes called the "life of piety", and the next three are called the "life of charity"; the last one is not something we do ourselves, but instead is something the Lord does for us as a result of the other six.
To see the truth of this and learn how to apply it to your life, read Luke 17:20-21 and The New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine 124, 241-245 (included below), and then listen to the full audio of this sermon by clicking here. This sermon, along with the rest of the series, is available through the Pittsburgh New Church (where it was preached), TheoBlog, the New Church, and the Apple iTunes Store.
Next week we will begin to talk about our responsibilities to the church in "Be the Church, Part 2: Support One Another".
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| 1 | Be the Church 1: Connect with the Lord - NJ 124 (Jul 15, 2007) | 18m 08s | download |
Lessons and text
Luke 17:20-21; New Jerusalem and Its Heavenly Doctrine (NJHD) 124, 241-245.
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