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CHBC Connect for June 14, 2024

God’s Vision for CHBC: 3 Piers, 3 Pillars, and 3 Purposes
3 Pillars: Biblically-Modeled; Mission-Minded; and Multi-Cultural

And they sang a new song, saying, ‘Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You
were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people
and nation.’” (Rev. 5:9)

The local church is a visible representation of the universal and heavenly church. This is why we
desire to be as culturally diverse as is reasonable for our community or context. In South OKC
that means we should be a church that contains people of many different ages, different socio-
economic brackets, and different ethnic backgrounds.
While the church may be made up of people with distinct cultural backgrounds, the church also
forms one new culture in Christ. We should see a transcendent unity in the midst of our
diversity. That is what the New Testament church looked like, and that is what we strive for as
well. We are convicted to pursue life as one body in Christ where, as Paul said, “There is neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are
all one in Christ Jesus.” (Gal. 3:28) All one, yet many tribes, tongues, people, and nations. It does
not get much more beautiful than that.

By His Grace and For His Glory,

Pastor Mark

CHBC Connect for June 8, 2024

God’s Vision for CHBC: 3 Piers, 3 Pillars, and 3 Purposes
3 Pillars: Biblically-Modeled; Mission-Minded; and Multi-Cultural

 “…so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places.” (Eph. 3:10)

The mission of the church is to make certain that it is the means through which the manifold wisdom of God is made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. That the angels and demons are made to stand in awe of God’s wisdom in redeeming fallen human creatures into His own adopted sons and daughters.

May we never see the salvation of any person as routine, mundane, or humdrum. It is a fantastic miracle. May we not trivialize that which is truly miraculous.

When we speak of being mission-minded it means taking all the things we do as a church and submitting them to the scrutiny of this stated mission of God. If they cannot be done in such a way, and with the motivation of Ephesians 3:10, may we be willing to lay them aside as secondary at best and perhaps unnecessary as a pursuit.

This must be one of our three pillars, or three-core convictions. Our intentional focus and our mental energies must be spent on the mission of our living God. Pray that our church leadership would scrutinize all that we do by the prime mission of the Living God. Scrutinize your own daily activities and routines in the same way, so that your life moves with the eternal purposes and plans of God.

By His Grace and For His Glory,

Pastor Mark