McCracken Sermon

the this bill the text is taken from the letter to the a seizure means the first chapter that says twenty two and twenty three the church which is his body on this worldwide communion sunday we are especially conscious of the christian church has not only an international

but the soup broth national society the last one hundred and fifty years have the years of remarkable expansion for the church there is almost no people and i have come to run the gospel has not been breached and among whom there is not a church in existence no sometimes they're church is very small indeed a tiny island in a good at all sure sounded as they are by barrios of race and language also cap and nationality christians know that their unity in christ is more fundamental then in a desolate

association or allegiance for the imam buzz although world spiritual community more enduring and more are profiling that letter then a community a state or nation to watch a n in this strife torn lawyer and what is the first order of business all the supra national church the new testament in a metaphor a british inn suggestiveness provides beyond so the church is the body of christ a voice that speaks for him hands that work for him to seek that running on his aaron's living in

him and by him it exists to proclaim his gospel it is the continuation of an extension of the incarnation also the new testament this is basically a divine purpose revealed in the incarnation is to have development and completion in the lights and ministry of the church the body by which jesus of nasr's had expressed god's truth and love was no longer to be seen in paris but no he had an instrument that could set of his blog posts beyond palestine and to the eighties all the yes is elyse would sing o into the

life of every christian as the set of of it penetrates to the tips off the remotest branch churches wherever established would be fellowships old man and woman presenting in their corporate life and authenticate like nice de jesus christ their hearts will pollute to broaden do in the same expectant faith and to a man with the same event a lot as was true both crimes that inspiration and how are continually supplying along the shadows of faith and prayer from muncie in reservoirs and steadily pops into the service of the worm my friends it is a vivid metaphor just as a

man's body is that visible through which his will finds expression and makes its impact upon his environment so the church is the visible on innocent through which the purposes of christ act to be carried out in the world what mr christ himself sought to do in the days of his flesh that his church ought to continually to be doing in the path of his spirit it is the prolonged and expand in the world the lives and work of its logo as he manifested in palestine the love of god so his followers united in a common faith in god all being one who are the master

inspired by his spirit i have to manifest that love in as white that certain years until the kingdom of god comes in its fullness matthew arnold wrote about once was he was as a priest two is all of the wonder which we sold with his eyes and we're glad he meant that once was interpreted to his age the great significance of nature and all cleaned up its glory judd human understanding enough mock raids as saints jesus was a priest the law mankind of the goodness some level of

god which we see not only with his eyes but in his eyes his face hispanic talk of the old testament says the heavens declared the glory of god in the new testament goes further and speaks of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ in price the un see visible the unknown living and walking with men the word made flesh the word is still to be made flesh the entire nation is not to me a data off his story the church this subject every church is to be the body of christ its members men and

women in long priced limbs and laos and ministers again and hope and say i would say and be to the eternal boldness what his right hand is dr mann there wife of henry luce has written of the portrait of a saint is only of fran of a great and still iran promptly tend more was at the portrait of jesus well it is impressive to know someone who's alive for interest rates on vanity it's somber a

belief than day nonviolence try to set sail for annunciation as w h myers said that when the head bishop them to preach somehow he's so the goal was about their tunes that they're never been very far as some till we see them and walking in a character in the life there virtues that out as buddhist forgotten bias until may take flesh and blood in a person i have to ask you it's my business to ask you what beliefs do you inspire what pronouns do you illustrate and validate is that anything about you that is suggestive of jesus christ and that makes faith in jesus christ

real fitzgerald and tennison stood together praising marble busts of dempsey and debt fitzgerald asked what is that in the face of the anti which is absent from the face of debt and tennessee reply the designing via skype dedication of any human life is to interpret and express the divine the service the world most needs of the church is the presence in which are also also will buy what they are make reits real

and nia souls who have his mind and spirit christ his right hand is do i man think a little more about what this means it means acknowledging as absolutely and beyond all the kind of life jesus lived the mind and spin it revealed in his words or deeds and days and desiring when law once hot to live in a different setting of the world today just such a life animated energized by the same faith in god and love for mankind this is a tremendous undertaking that's the mind and

spirit of grimes this is not easy it's not easy even to know what in any given situation they are and there's no shortcut to that knowledge it's never acquired and secondhand we have got to discipline ha mining conscience advance but the standards set by price we have got to read the gospels daily devoutly was the most concentration we have to pray sincerely and continually and expecting our prayers to be on so but we have to throw ourselves and all that we are into the life of the church not says that association that happens to be association that our parents had that is going to yield to us up private luxury

but as the beast from the agency whereby the saving purposes of christ in the world ought to be realized i shouldn't be surprised but that somebody may be saying these are impossible demands you must live a cloistered secluded kind of life you know what it means to have to work in manhattan it's hard enough to fight don't temptations and to make a fairly decent state police saying all my life went to tell me that this is not enough that i have to go further and do more i have to live from monday to friday of the things for which christ live because i have to be like human and to remind others are thinking this is beyond and i

suppose i dont feel like that to the fact is however tackling the big on assignment is a way to get along with the lesson assignment and you have got to have something big to live for something to take you up and out of yourself you're more sales something absorbing captivating exactly this is an important part of the secret of christian living to get your soul food with enthusiasm for the things for which christ stands then you begin to look at your life in a new way that what is negative presto yield to what is positive then your life

comes right in all its departments because it doesn't mean the park posts direction a massive debt at a lawyer right in thinking we're all this that i speak of is beyond your it is beyond you you're not asked will the boy don't you do this in your own strength to be self sufficient you can rely confidently on the grace of god on inspiration and strength from on high all the normal again the new testament comes back to that the grace of brought to that is to say this sort of put a human pileup available to each of us to begin and to keep on living for the things for which cries lived and died

you're on reserve saw correctly exhausted but the divine reserves are using exhausting to be a true member of the church the body of rice they're all night and day upon lowe's divine reserves to the point