Northwest Community Church serves Joplin:
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
The Beauty of the Local Church
This past Sunday we started a new series at Northwest entitled Build Community. We will spend the next 6 weeks studying the book of Acts as we discover how the early church overcame enormous obstacles and has been able to have a global influence for 2,000 years. Of course the real beauty in the local church is that it is not simply a human institution. The local church is the body of Christ and we are to literally do the ministry, teaching, serving, and ministry of Jesus as if he were here physically. Consequently, when the local church is healthy and acts the way it is supposed to there it is a beautiful thing. Check out this video which shows Northwest Community Church along with dozens of other local churches serving the city of Joplin, MO last month after a devastating tornado. Watch how Christ followers spring into action, convert a church building into a logistics headquarters, and serve with no-strings attached all in the name of Christ. The local church is a beautiful thing!
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It's great to see the body of Christ acting like they're supposed to. We just went over to an apartment building that burned down 2 days ago and the manager told us they had already been taken care of by a bunch of local churches.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the local church IS a beautiful thing!