Jesus is trusting the church to continue his work on earth.

Do you think he has a backup plan in case we fail?

Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth.

God has no plan B for getting his message out.

It's the church to whom he has given, the message, the gospel of Christ.

He didn't give it to angels to give to the world. He didn't choose to do it primarily with billboards. He does it with his people

and his people collectively. This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss

Walgamuth, author of Adored. For February 4th, 2020, I'm Dana Gresh.

Do you know the difference between an organization and an organism? And what could that

possibly have to do with what we're studying on Revive Our

Hearts this week? Well, Nancy's going to help us understand that better today as she continues

in a series called Who Needs the Church? Here's Nancy. I'm holding in my hand a bundle of sticks.

They're all tied together with this cord. This bundle of sticks, there's a kind of unity to these sticks.

They're all about the same size. They're all tied together. But it's only an organizational unity.

These sticks are not really one. You can pull them out. You can separate them. There's not an organic unity. There's not an internal unity to these sticks.

The unity is merely external.

It's just this cord that's holding these sticks together.

That's an organization.

An organization is a group of people who are organized for a particular purpose.

It's a structure, the dictionary says, through which individuals cooperate

systematically to conduct business, a group of people who work together. And there's something

that ties them together. They work for the same company or they go to the same school or they're

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