Ephesian 3:10 paints a startling image of the church as God's masterpiece, of the church not as the media portray it or even as we sometimes think of it. But of the church as God's way of displaying his wisdom to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
How does it do that? As it lives out the gospel, as it exists as a community united in Christ Jesus our Lord and utilising the access Christ's death grants us to the Father.
The church is the hope of the world, it is God's shop window, it is where the mystery of the gospel is made clear as people from different backgrounds come together united by the death of God to appease God and free us to enter relationship with God and live for God's glory.
How does the church function? It works as it reads and applies the word of God in daily life in each others lives, listening to God's opinion of us not man's opinion or my own, listening to what God says I need and not what the world says we need. It functions as a fractured world sees a restored and refurbished community who live for one another loving one another, forgiving one another just as Christ lived for, loved, and forgave them.
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