2. Body Life… An Introduction DO We Really Understand Who We Are as the Church?

3. Body Life… An Introduction “What a contrast there is between the principles that the early church originated and fostered, and those that the modern and progressive church presents as substitutes.” E.M. Bounds, Guide to Spiritual Warfare (p.57.

4. Body Life… An Introduction “The church is not a theatre, that we should listen for amusement…for it is vainly and irrationally we meet together if we have but been amused for the time, and return home empty and void of all improvement from the things spoken out of the Word of God.” Chrysostom, 347-407

5. Body Life… An Introduction “The mission of the church – the Bride of Christ, or Body of Christ – is to get ready to meet the Bride Groom (Jesus).” Billy Sunday, 1862-1935

6. Body Life… An Introduction The Beauty of the Bride of Christ

7. Body Life… An Introduction i.Reconciled to God

8. Body Life… An Introduction ii. Reconciled to One Another

9. #1 Do I sometimes struggle with my attitude toward the local church because of what another person has done, said, or how someone else has made me feel?

10. #2 Do I sometimes struggle with placing value on the local church because of how disconnected I feel with others in the church?

11. #3 Am I tempted at times to minimize the importance of commitment to the local church because there seems to be a loss of relevance between the church and my life, and the lives of my contemporaries?

12. #4 Are there personal preferences that get in the way of me genuinely serving the church?

15. Ephesians 2:19 B ELONGING

16. Ephesians 2:20 B UILDING

17. Ephesians 2:21 B ECOMING

18. Ephesians 2:22 B ONDING