This study was taught at our Sunday evening service by Sim Forder, one of our pastors, on the 18th July 2021. You can listen to the audio on this web page or save it for later listening.

Summary of this study

In this study we look at the who, what, where, when and why of the church. With some bad examples around, and for our own good, it’s really important to make sure we’re doing church right. But that’s not doing it right in man’s eyes, but in God’s eyes. And that includes the possibility, the likelihood, even the guarantee that people will not like us for it. We may even be persecuted. But that mustn’t sway us from being who we should be as Christians, and who collectively we should be as the church.

The church is made up of men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realise that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.

RA Torrey

Application questions

• Are you separated unto Jesus?
• Are you taking your place in the body? Are you being Jesus’ hands and feet?
• Are you a beautiful bride? Are you pleasing to Him?

Series overview: The big areas of our lives

During this series we took a look at 11 topics – one each week – that affect us, our families, our friends, and our church family. We’ll be looking at what the Bible has to say about Education, Career, Finances, Time, Friendships, Singleness & relationships, Marriage, Children, Health & illness, Death, and Church.

Why look at these topics? Well, God has given us everything we need for every area of our lives, so that we know how we should live and conduct ourselves in these areas, our foundation for this series being the first 4 verses of 2 Peter chapter one…

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Peter 1:1-4