Comments on: My Church or the Kingdom? http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/09/28/my-church-or-the-kingdom/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:48:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cafe Biblia » Christianity, Local Church, Parachurch, or Kingdom Work? A Helpful Perspective. http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/09/28/my-church-or-the-kingdom/#comment-112 Cafe Biblia » Christianity, Local Church, Parachurch, or Kingdom Work? A Helpful Perspective. Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:39:41 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/?p=372#comment-112 [...] a post on The Gospel Coalition website titled, “My Church or the Kingdom?” Ray Ortlund makes this insightful [...] [...] a post on The Gospel Coalition website titled, “My Church or the Kingdom?” Ray Ortlund makes this insightful [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Chambers http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/09/28/my-church-or-the-kingdom/#comment-87 Jonathan Chambers Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:24:32 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/?p=372#comment-87 Excellent articulation and point Ray. To UncleBeard: I think you need to be careful not to pit the local church vs. the universal Church. You see, the way God has designed it (as far as I can see in scripture), is that the local church is the local expression of the universal Church. The world will best understand the universal Church by looking at the local churches. However, the local churches have a duty to embrace John 17 evangelistic Christ-exalting, God-glorifying unity as well that will display the Gospel through the local churches from the universal church. It's both/and, not either/or. One can't be for the "C"hurch and not for the "church". It's practically the same thing that Ray Ortlund is discussing. Saying one is for advancing God's kingdom is the same as saying one is for advancing the Church of Christ, the body. One can't do that without being fully involved and plugged in faithfully to one's local body. That is where everything starts and is expressed universally. Thanks for the thoughts Ray. Keep it up GC! Excellent articulation and point Ray.

To UncleBeard: I think you need to be careful not to pit the local church vs. the universal Church. You see, the way God has designed it (as far as I can see in scripture), is that the local church is the local expression of the universal Church. The world will best understand the universal Church by looking at the local churches. However, the local churches have a duty to embrace John 17 evangelistic Christ-exalting, God-glorifying unity as well that will display the Gospel through the local churches from the universal church.

It's both/and, not either/or. One can't be for the "C"hurch and not for the "church". It's practically the same thing that Ray Ortlund is discussing. Saying one is for advancing God's kingdom is the same as saying one is for advancing the Church of Christ, the body. One can't do that without being fully involved and plugged in faithfully to one's local body. That is where everything starts and is expressed universally.

Thanks for the thoughts Ray. Keep it up GC!

]]> By: Pallab Gupta http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/09/28/my-church-or-the-kingdom/#comment-69 Pallab Gupta Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:55:51 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/?p=372#comment-69 Taking a page from elementary school Social Studies, the unit of society is the family. So my responsibility is to start with the family, then as an individual and my family, help my local church grow and as UncleBeard said, finally grow the Kingdom of God. Taking a page from elementary school Social Studies, the unit of society is the family. So my responsibility is to start with the family, then as an individual and my family, help my local church grow and as UncleBeard said, finally grow the Kingdom of God.

]]> By: UncleBeard http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/2009/09/28/my-church-or-the-kingdom/#comment-68 UncleBeard Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:28:32 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/tgc/?p=372#comment-68 I know that you're not insinuating that marriage and a local church are a perfect metaphor, but what about the Church (with a big C)? What if the statement were changed to "My passion isn't building up my local church. My passion is building up the Church." I know that you're not insinuating that marriage and a local church are a perfect metaphor, but what about the Church (with a big C)? What if the statement were changed to "My passion isn't building up my local church. My passion is building up the Church."

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