There's Nothing Like the Local Church
When the Local Church is Working Right

Conviction 1: The local church is the                      of the                          .

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Conviction 2: There's nothing like the local church when the local church is                                                              .

What Does A "Right Working" Church Look Like?

Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.
Ephesians 4:14-16

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•                                     on Christ, the head of the church

• Builds                                     to people who aren't here yet

•                                                                   -- comforts, cares and celebrates

• Dispenses