The Purpose of the Church
Max Lucado Daily Devotional
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🗓️ 7 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is Max Lakato. The purpose of the church is to provide bread and swords. |
| 0:08.0 | To the spiritually hungry, the church offers bread. It offers nourishment. To the fugitive, the church |
| 0:15.0 | offers swords. Weapons of truth. Romans 828 says, we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, |
| 0:24.2 | who are called according to his purpose, food, and equipment. The church exists to provide both. |
| 0:32.2 | Does it always succeed? Not always. People helping is never a tidy trade because people who need help don't lead tidy lives |
| 0:39.4 | but Jesus calls the church to lean in the direction of compassion and at the end of the day |
| 0:45.4 | the question is not how many laws are broken but how many desperate were nourished and equipped |
| 0:51.4 | God's sanctuary where he gives food to the hungry and tools to the soldiers. |
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