Welcome back to part two of our episodes dealing with, what is the church?

Last week we were looking at John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and when I left you off,

we had just been taken to the table to sit down for eat.

So you might be hungry, so it's time now to talk about the meals

since we've been waiting a week for this.

Once Bunyan has Christian at the table,

this is what he goes on to say, and all their talk at the table. This is what he goes on to say and all their talk at the table was about

the Lord of the Hill as namely about what he had done and wherefore he did what he did and why he had built that house.

What we see here, and again, remember this is an allegory, and what we see here is Bunyan is trying to tell us that this is the sermon. That the centerpiece of the church is the sermon

and we come to literally feast on the word as the word of God is open before us, as the fat things, the good meat of the word is put

out there before us.

And Bunyan also wants to tell us a little bit about what a sermon should be like.

And what he wants to say is that a good biblical sermon

will be about Christ.

And so all of their talk around the table at the meal time

was of the Lord of the Hill and about what he did and how he did what he did and why what he did matters and then also why he's building the house and what is the purpose of the church and

what is the purpose of living the Christian life and what is the purpose of sanctification

and how are we sanctified?

See Bunyan and and those few little sentences

is trying to say,

this is what the sermon needs to be about,

and this is what the church needs to be about.

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