Given that the world cannot see Jesus physically, what does it look like practically for the church to make Christ known?

In what ways do you think the church in our culture is giving the world a false picture of Christ?

How can the church address this?

What does this mean for you personally?

Welcome to Radical with David Platt.

As always, you can find thousands more resources at

our website radical.net. In today's sermon from David Platt, we learned that

the Church is not a building or merely an earthly institution.

It's a community of faith united under Christ, where he is the head and we are the body. So here's David with a sermon titled the church's

identity, authority, and purpose from Ephesians chapter one.

Fiat your Bibles let me invite you to open with me to Ephesians chapter one.

Ephesions chapter one. I really like that pony line at the end.

What I want us to do over the next two weeks

is to take a look at what I want to call a radical redefinition of the church

as a part of this whole series of radical restoration, becoming the church that God is

intended for us to be. I want us to look at what the church is,

what it means to be a part of the church, what it means to be a member of the church.

I think these are some areas that we're going to look at in scripture that are sorely needed in our church culture today.

What is the church and what's the church all about?

And so we're going to do that this morning and next week.

This morning will be a little more focused on the universal church as a whole and the next week

we'll dive even more specifically into a definition of the local church.

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