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
