I like kids but I'm not just in a teeny bopper church. We need the life and energy

that the kids have but we need the power that the mature believers have. But if you

can hear the truth and walk out and carry on the same pattern of living without ever a conscious effort in the

power of the spirit to apply that truth, what happens is you just get old, that's all, you

don't get more powerful.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

It's the leading cause of death in the United States claiming more lives than liver disease, pneumonia, diabetes, stroke, and car accidents combined.

What is this plague responsible for so many deaths?

Heart disease.

A healthy cardiovascular system is essential to your physical life and where the

spiritual life of your church is concerned there are internal systems certain

attitudes that your church cannot survive without?

So what are these attitudes that are critical to the health of your local church and

how can you promote the spiritual health of your church?

What is your role in that? John MacArthur answers those

questions today as he continues his study the anatomy of a church and here he is now

with the lesson. I want to continue what we started last time and I guess we could say that this is sort of a brief

bit of spiritual archaeology. And so what I'm trying to do is dig up a little bit of foundation for you and let you see the basics of what this ministry is really committed to. And in order to help us see that

foundation to kind of dig down and find out what's really at the bottom of

Grace Church, I I wanted to borrow Paul's wonderful analogy of the body and we're talking

about the anatomy of the church and I suggested that there are four features of the body that

we want to look at, the skeleton, the internal systems, the muscles in the flesh.

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