Column- About Church

Column - About the Church 1. The church is the body of Christ, the fullness of Christ who fills all in all (Ephesians 1:23). Are you confident in this verse?Are you receiving various spiritual gifts through Christ, the Head?Are you also being built together in the Holy Spirit into a house for God to dwell in, in Christ Jesus, with him as your standard? (Ephesians 2:22)If not, then it is not a church, but a synagogue (synagogue), a gathering of people.These days, we often hear the term "local church," but this likely refers to dividing and separating a branded church.That is becoming a common practice.If the church is the body of Christ, can we really say that there is a main church and local churches?There are Korean embassies around the world, but they are not called "local Korea." Because there is only one Republic of Korea, anywhere is Republic of Korea, not a local country. 2. Anyone who, while attending the holy communion, says, "This bread is the flesh of the Lord broken on the cross, and this cup is the cup containing the blood of the Lord shed on the cross," is not serving the church, which is the body of the Lord.Those who are not baptized cannot partake of the body and blood of the Lord.Only those who have died and risen with Christ can be united with the Lord's resurrection, eat the bread of life, drink the blood of the covenant, and become one life with the Lord.Without the Holy Spirit, one cannot be united with Christ.The Holy Spirit came after the cross.The Holy Spirit comes and we become one body with Christ through baptism (1 Corinthians 12:13).We die with Christ and rise with Christ, becoming one in the Holy Spirit, becoming one bread, one body, and one spirit.We do not return to the cross and eat his flesh and drink his blood.That's emotional language. 3. The body of Christ is a church, even if only one person is a church, and the entire universe combined is a church. There are no megachurches or microchurches.That body is one church, whether in heaven or on earth.Therefore, the evidence of a person of the Holy Spirit is their membership.We examine whether that person belongs to the body of Christ.Christ purchased us with his blood and made us his brothers through his death and resurrection (Hebrews 2:11).Therefore, Christians who are found in Christ are brothers of Christ and are brothers in him.They are not brothers of main church or of a local church, but members and brothers of one body.Some groups call anyone a brother. So we tend to avoid the word brother out of embarrassment, but those who are one body and one spirit in Christ are brothers.From the beginning, the Lord Jesus Christ called God "Father."This is because he has the life of God.By the grace of the Lord's atonement on the cross, we receive forgiveness of sins through repentance, including baptism, and the gift of the Holy Spirit, and we take Christ as our head and call God our Father.This is because we have finally become united with Christ and have received that life. 4. Like the church in Laodicea, synagogues without a relationship with Christ are called churches, and gatherings that are not one body with Christ pretend to be churches.Therefore, the church presents the mystery of unity with Christ, the head, and being raised with Christ and seated with him in the heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6),  we eat and drink him, live with him, are one in his blood, are reconciled through the cross, and become one in the Holy Spirit, and thus present the way to God the Father (Ephesians 2:18).Through the church, even angels have made known the manifold wisdom of God, the unfathomable riches of Christ (Ephesians 3:8-10).Those who possess this amazing mystery of Christ and the church should speak of the church and serve the church. Written by Pastor. Yohan KimTranslated by Missionary Nancy KimCOME AND SEE WORLD MISSIONTO GOD BE THE GLORY