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We had significant days at ECC early in 2008. We had just moved into Phase 1 of our brand new church building. As we got used to a new building, we undertook a 5 part study on the Church of Jesus Christ. What is it? What is it made of? How does Jesus feel about the church? How do we find our role in the church and what is the church’s role in the world?
Why Are We Here? In this last sermon in this series on the church, we look at the church’s role in the world. Why are we here, on earth, in Abu Dhabi? From Matthew 28:18-20 we find the answer to that question and we discover there are two facets to our task.
In this message, we continue to explore the horizontal dimension of life in the church. Building on the metaphor of the church as the Body of Christ in Romans 12:1-8, (We are one and we are different) we find that God has equipped every believer to serve effectively in the church. But how can we find our place of service? After looking at a traditional approach to this question, we take a look at the “Nike philosophy of Christian service.” Find out what that is in this message entitled Equipped to Serve.
In this third message in our series on the church, we begin to explore the horizontal dimension of church life by examining the “one another” commands in the New Testament. In Romans 12:5, Paul tells us that “each member belongs to all the others.” What does that look like? As we learn to “love each other” we will need to learn to avoid some “love busters” while also practicing some “love builders.”
Pastor Cam was away but Pastor Joe continued this series on the church by exploring the vertical dimension of the church’s identity and relationship with Christ and the immense privilege and responsibility that goes with it.
In the first sermon in this series on the church, we ask the question: Where is God getting THE RAW MATERIAL to build his church? From Ephesians 2:1-10, we find out that God is using very unlikely material to construct his temple, his dwelling place on earth.