Is your life characterized by obedience so that there's a progressing maturity, there's a mounting degree of sanctification as you hear the word and instantly and properly apply it and you see growth so that when you reach the end of your earthly years

you will be reaching the I'm your host Phil Johnson.

In today's smartphone culture is at any

surprise that churches are being reviewed on Yelp? That's right you can rate

churches from one to five stars based on criteria like music, preaching style, and

sermon length. You can even read comments about a church's customer service, whatever that may mean.

So how many stars would you give your church?

More important, on what would you base your review?

How much should you care about how long the service is or what the music is like or what programs

are available for kids? Consider that today as John MacArthur looks at the kind of things your church

should be known for. It's part of his current series, The Anatomy of a Church.

And now with the lesson, here's John.

I believe that the church must have flowing through it certain spiritual attitudes.

A physical body has organs and fluids that flow through and cause that body to be able to be alive and function.

And so we are not only a skeleton.

A skeleton is not alive.

It gives form, but it isn't life.

There has to be a flowing through of certain

spiritual attitudes and that is what I see is the internal systems of the

church first of all internal systems of the church.

First of all, and foremost, is obedience, an attitude of obedience.

Now this is the overarching attitude of all attitudes. This says if God says something I do it. Let me give you a second attitude.

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