Why is it so crucial for Christians to be in church? Listen to Adrian Rogers.

People say, well, you'll be just too good a Christian outside the church as you can be inside the church.

Just one thing wrong with that is not so. Just not so. Friend, I'm telling you that when we come to worship, God's spirit comes.

Jesus Christ said, we're two or three are gathered together

in my name. There am I in the midst of them. Welcome to Love Worth Finding, featuring the dynamic

teachings and engaging biblical lessons of Adrian Rogers. In Matthew chapter 16, we have an amazing

confession of Simon Peter that Jesus was the long-awaited

Messiah and the response that upon this rock, Jesus would build his church.

Last time, we learned that the church triumphant relies on a personal conviction, confession,

and conversion. What then is the commission of the church?

What is her unchanging responsibility? If you have your Bible, turn to Matthew chapter 16.

We'll begin in verse 13, as Adrian Rogers delivers part two of the church triumphant.

I've already said that the greatest organization and the greatest organism on the face of

this earth is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It is absolutely totally foolish to talk about loving Jesus without loving what Jesus loves

and Jesus loves the church.

Now there's several things I want you to learn about the church,

and I want you to pay attention.

Because God's plan for every person listening to me is this.

Number one, that you be saved, and number two,

that you be an active participant in a local New Testament church.

And if you're not that way, you're not right with God.

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