Hey folks, my name is Johnny Art of Annis and this is Dialin. In this episode, I pick up where I

left off in our previous one as we conduct a study on the nature, function, and mission of the local

church. And within that stated purpose and theme, we are looking specifically last episode and in this

one, at your part, if you're a Christian, in the body of Christ.

Church is not something you merely attend.

The church is something that you belong to

because Jesus Christ not only saved you

into a personal relationship with him,

but into a corporate one amongst the body of Christ.

Now in our previous episode, we examined the first two of the four

great responsibilities that you and I have to the church. Those were number one that we are to

lay down our lives on the altar of sacrifice. Paul says in Romans 12, 1, that he beseeches us by the

mercies of God to present our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice.

God is not telling you to make sacrifices if you're a Christian.

He is calling you to be a living, holy, embodied sacrifice.

Secondly, we looked at the reality that we are to humble our heart.

That is one of our responsibilities

to the church. Paul says in Romans 12, verse 3, that pride is chaotic. It's destructive or we're not to have

an opinion of ourself that is higher than it should be. And when we function as living sacrifices,

we're not trying at the same time to salvage our own ego. The gospel

empowers us to forget about ourselves. And once we forget about ourselves, we are freed to

serve with joy. Now in this episode, I want to look at the third and fourth responsibility that

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