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CHBC Connect for April 19, 2024

God’s Vision for CHBC: 3 Piers, 3 Pillars, and 3 Purposes

3 Purposes: Equipping Believers, Exalting Christ, and Extending the Gospel

“And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;” (Eph. 4:11-12). Equipping Believers is a mandate of the church. But equipping is not an end.

The saints referred to in Ephesians 4:12 are those who have trusted in Jesus Christ and become God’s followers, heirs, and adopted children. They are to do the work of service. What kind of service? Serving the body of Christ so that it is built up into strength of faith, purity of doctrine, obedience of living, and evangelistically concerned.

Those whom God has given to the church to be heralds of truth, teachers of doctrine, and models of evangelism are to equip all the believers to do the work of ministry to one another, and in the community in which they live. The church does not gather to have a crusade or a conference. The church gathers to be encouraged after a week of ministry in a hostile world, to be exhorted to go again into the world as ambassadors of Christ, and to be equipped with the doctrinal truths and practical skills to be effective for the place of service in which God as appointed them. Men and women equipped to be spiritual influencers in their professions, mothers and fathers to be equipped to raise their children in the Lord, children and teens to be faithful students and missionaries on their campuses. Wherever God has sent us on Monday, looking toward a re-gathering on the next Sunday for more encouragement, exhortation, and equipping.

By His Grace and For His Glory,

Pastor Mark

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Pastor Mark

Mark D. DeMoss, Pastor for Preaching and Vision

Capitol Hill Baptist Church

Equipping…Exalting…Extending

For the Glory of God

CHBC Connect for April 12, 2024

God’s Vision for CHBC: 3 Piers, 3 Pillars, and 3 Purposes

3 Pillars: Biblically-Modeled; Mission-Minded; and Multi-Cultural

Why fight for a Multi-Cultural church when homogenous is easier. Homogenous means things of the same kind. Like things attract alike things. The problem is that a Biblical worldview teaches that what makes us alike is not the physical characteristic we possess, or the background that we come from, but the salvation we have through Jesus Christ. 

The New Testament church was made up of those who, “have put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him— ¹¹ a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all,” (Col. 3:10-11). Our new identity releases us from our former distinctions based on ethnic identity, religious identity, tribal identity, or social status.

 The modern world fights to segment people off into their groups, tribes, and identities. We cannot fall for these false identifiers. We must lay claim to our identity in Christ, and “as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;” (Col. 3:12).

To live in community that is Multi-Cultural we will need a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. God knows that will not come naturally, that is why it is part of our belonging to Him, and it is a command that comes from Him, and enabled by Him through the Holy Spirit.

Unity in diversity is a representation of the nature of God, of His design, and of His plan for eternity. Unity through homogeneity is a design of the world, influenced by Satan, as a counterfeit to God’s good plan.

By His Grace and For His Glory,

Pastor Mark

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