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Here is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

As you know, it's a couple of weeks ago that we wrapped up a series on heaven on earth,

and I was talking about the church being heaven on earth in that series.

In response to that series, I wanted to take one particular Sunday, and that's this one,

to talk about the implications of that.

We identified the church as heaven on earth, and I want to take it from understanding the

theology of the church to understanding not just the orthodoxy, but the orthopraxy what

it is that we are to do and be in response to that.

So the title today is the faithful believer's relationship to the church.

And while in my mind that is not a confusing subject and not a difficult one to understand,

there appears to be some kind of a distinction, some kind of a line drawn between being a

quote-unquote Christian having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and necessarily

belonging to a church.

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