Listen people, we should be living in hope.

And hope means that we are far greater

in our commitment to invest in forever

than we are in time.

And so our energies, and our thoughts, and and our dreams and our visions and our money and all that we possess is only held as a means to invest in an eternal reality. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm Phil Johnson, your host.

163 stories. That's the height of the world's tallest building, the Burge Khalifa in Dubai.

This incredible structure is taller than the Empire State building with the Eiffel Tower stacked on top. Now you might think such an edifice

needs to be rigid and unyielding to withstand natural forces, but the surprising

truth is to maintain its structural integrity, the building is designed to sway as much as

two meters at its highest point. Without that

flexibility the Burge Khalifa would crumble. Similarly, when it comes to your

church, some flexibility is important, but in what ways should it bend? Is it

okay to accommodate trends in the culture or maybe to talk about hard truths in

softer ways.

Find out as John MacArthur continues his study,

the anatomy of a church.

And now here's John.

Now we've already talked about the skeleton.

We've talked about if we are like a body if we are using the analogy of a body and

we're like a body we have to have a skeleton and we we talked about those

skeletal things a high view of God the absolute absolute priority of scripture, doctrinal clarity, personal holiness, and

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