-Pastor Adam Downer
Welcome to Church! Whether you are joining us in person, or on line, we believe the Holy Spirit will be at work in your life. We are happy you have chosen to join us!
Ephesians 2:1-10
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you
used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the
kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are
disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the
cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest,
we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for
us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we
were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. And
God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly
realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the
incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ
Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is
not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can
boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good
works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 4:11-16
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the
pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the
body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the
knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole
measure of the fullness of Christ.
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and
blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and
craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth
in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him
who is the head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held
together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as
each part does its work.
The church thrives when believers work together.
The church thrives when believers grow spiritually.
When the church is thriving, everyone benefits.