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And now unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.

Here is Grace to you, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

We have been talking about the ordinary church, and when I say ordinary, I mean ordinary in

the sense that it follows the course of Scripture.

We talked last week about how popular it is to see yourself as something extraordinary

as a church, unique, different, awesome, extreme, or whatever.

We just want to be an ordinary church, and the ordinary church is defined by the word of

God.

The most common complaint that I hear from Christians everywhere, as I told you last

week is I can't find a church.

I think within a rather reasonable area around my own house there are 125 to 150 so-called

churches.

This could be true just about anywhere in our country, and yet people can't find a church.

What they mean by that is an ordinary church, a real church, a biblical church, and their

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