...Paul used the human body as a metaphor to describe the Church as the body of Christ. 1 Corinthians 12:12-14 says, "For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For in fact the body is not one member but many." Paul goes on to explain how each part of the body is important for it to function properly. As a born again believer, you are part of Christ's body--"The Church".

You are tempered together with the other members to make His body complete. You have spiritual gifts and abilities that will make you a vital part of the Body. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal these gifts to you and then use them to bless the Church, and the Lord.

During the month of September, I will be preaching a sermon series on "I Love My Church". In order to love the Church, we must love God and love people.

Matthew 22:37-40 says, "Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all you heat, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments hang all the prophets."

1 John 4:20-21 says, "If someone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? And this commandment we have from Him; that he who loves God must love his brother also."

In this sermon series we will be exploring how we love our Church by: connecting with one another, serving one another, by giving, and by sharing our faith with others. I want to encourage you to make every effort to be a part of this series to learn how to live together as a community of believers and to share the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus Christ with others.

With love and prayers in Jesus' name

Pastor TJ Kroll