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Do We Need to Save the Church?

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Sometimes we need to step back and get a fresh perspective on what we are doing and why.  First of all, remember who we are and where we came from: God has always had a people.  He created us.  He made a promise to Abraham that he would be the father of a great people that would be the people of His choice.  We are his spiritual offspring.  God gave us His law (His instructions) in stone on Mt. Sinai on the Day of Pentecost, and then 1500 years later He gave His Holy Spirit to write His law on our hearts after He made a way for us to be in a relationship with Himself forever by coming to us in the person of Jesus Christ who became our sin-bearer on the cross.  And we enter into all of this reality by way of a mysterious commodity called faith. Secondly, reaffirm who's in charge: All of the correcting, shaping and molding of God's people through the ages has been done by YHWH Himself.  He is the Hebrews 12:2 "Author and Finisher of our faith".  At His command and