It's the word in the mind that generates the behavior.

And that's why the Bible says be renewed in the spirit of your mind.

Be not conform to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

You have to have the word into your thinking so that it can start that

flywheel of behavior moving. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

The story is told of a church whose members became sharply divided on the color of shingles for the church building.

In the end, each half of the roof was covered with different colored shingles, and the congregation then picked sides, either the left

side of the room or the right side, based solely on which color shingle was

directly overhead. That story might be comical if the implications were not so tragic.

Now while your church might not be divided over trivial matters,

if it loses focus on its main priority,

the results can be even more devastating.

And what is that main priority? Find out now with John MacArthur as he continues his study,

the anatomy of a church.

The Lord has led us, I believe, into a discussion of what it is that he desires to be characteristic

of his church. God has so blessed us here

and God has built here I believe a church that desires

in the heart of its people to be all that he would have it be. And God has blessed us in unique

and wonderful, wonderful ways. We are as rich in spiritual things as any church could be and it's important for us

while we enjoy these things to understand the foundations, to understand the causes, if you will, that

bring about God's blessing, that allow us to receive from him the best that he has to give.

And so we're doing, as I've termed it a little spiritual archaeology and digging back up

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