Category:  The Church

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We are the Living Temple of God

Cultivate a greater understanding of the relationship God desires to reestablish with us and discover more truth about our identity as God's beloved people.

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What Does it Mean to Be the Church?

We are the House of God

​The fundamentals of a well-built house help us to better understand our identity as the Church.

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What Does it Mean to Be the Church?

We are the Family of God

Remembering that we, as believers, are members of the family of God encourages us toward reconciliation and reminds us that together we are restored to oneness with God through Jesus Christ.

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What Does it Mean to Be the Church?

We are the Bride of Christ

Gain a deeper understanding of the intimate nature of our relationship with God and discover what it means to be united with Christ.

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What Does it Mean to Be the Church?

We are the Body of Christ

Believers in the Church learn profound lessons about their identity and how they should function by studying the human body.

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What Does it Mean to Be the Church?

Challenges Facing the Gospel Today

Christians today are being confronted with a great deal of opposition. How should we think about these challenges? Perhaps more important, how should we respond to them?

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The Gospel Around the World

The Gospel in Africa

This week on Groundwork we're going to think about missions and the growth and impact of Christianity throughout the world. Bishop Henry Luke Orombi joins us again to discuss Acts 8:26-40 and his experience with the gospel in Africa.

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The Gospel Around the World

The Gospel Around the World

How should we think about the need for Gospel witness and mission in the 21st century? There's a great need for the gospel here at home and around the world. Special guest Bishop Henry Luke Orombi joins our conversation today to discuss this need and our response to it.

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The Gospel Around the World

Christ & Culture

We often think that our religion is separate from our culture, but is it really? How easy is it to distinguish between a cultural practice and a religious practice? Take this a step further and we wonder, how does the relationship between religion and culture affect the relationship between Christians and Muslims both in the Middle East and here in North America? Special guest Monsieur (name changed to protect identity), an expert on the Middle East, joins us to discuss these questions.

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Global Church—Global Mission

Missions in a Facebook Age

Acts 1:8 stretches the Church from Jerusalem to Judea to the ends of the earth, this is this has long been the support for mission work. But the world today is closer at hand, we are easily connected with people all over the world by the click of a button. So what does a missionary look like today and has missions changed in this age of online social networking? Special guests Doug Van Bronkhorst and Eric, a young missionary to Central Asia.

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Global Church—Global Mission

Picking a Church in a Buyer's Market

Sometimes looking for a new church can seem a bit like looking at a bowl of alphabet soup. Most communities have more than one church, there are the local Baptists, Assemblies of God, Lutherans, Methodists, and Reformed congregations, or you can find the nearest Non-Denominational church. What does it all mean and how do you go about picking a church?

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Global Church—Global Mission

The Holy, Sinful Church

Humans are sinful, so are Christians, yet the church is holy. Some people can’t stand the church because they say it’s full of hypocrites. So does it make sense to say a community of sinners is the holy church? What difference does this identity make for a local community of faith?

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Global Church—Global Mission