today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Church members are like a pile of bricks that when put together are a temple where God's

spirit dwells. Now watch this. No one brick by itself is the whole temple. It's just a brick in the same way get this

none of us are complete in Christ without one another. Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

You know, by itself a single LEGO doesn't really do much. You can't build anything or do anything with it.

And let's be honest, some of us can't build anything cool even if we

had a whole stack of them. But today Pastor J.D. reveals that Christians are kind of like

LEGO bricks in a sense. We can only accomplish our mission when we are put together and

working as a single unit. It's part of our study of Ephesians called Mystery and Clarity,

and if you've missed any of the previous messages, you can always find them free of charge at

JDgrier.com. Now grab your Bible in a pen and let's join Pastor J.D. in Ephesians two and three

for the second part of a message titled the mystery and mission of the church.

Can God be powerfully at work in your life apart from being a part of Christ's body, the church. You ready for this?

This is the most politically incorrect statement of the day. No, you cannot.

So what we're going to do is we're going to read this passage where Paul talks about

the nature and the purpose of the church, and then we're going to try to answer four questions.

Here they are. First question is why we should be

involved in the church. The second question is how involved we should be in the

church. Then the third question is what the mission of the church is and then number four

what the implications of that are for for you. Ephesians 2 verse 11 therefore

remember that at one time you Gentiles and the flesh you were separated from

Christ and you were alienated from the Commonwealth of Israel you're like

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