Winning the World

Ses s i on 1: By The i r Fru i t s You Sha l l Know Them 17

1 Pet. 2.9-10 (ESV) But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. [10] Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

IV. The Church Is Holy (Shared Spirituality)

The Church in whatever form (local, regional, national, or international) which is legitimate is holy, indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God who empowers God’s people as sojourners and aliens to represent God’s kingdom life as it lives out its fullness together in its worship, fellowship, and discipleship.

A. An expression of the fullness of the Holy Spirit

1. Conviction, regeneration and adoption

2. Sealing and anointing

3. Filling and leading

B. An expression of sojourners and aliens as the people of God

1. The Church as the Israel of God

2. Citizens, ambassadors of the Kingdom

3. As locus and agent of God’s reign

C. An expression of ecclesial, liturgical, and catechetical vitality

1. Welcome, incorporation into the community (order)

2. A spiritual service of worship (calendar)

3. A spiritual rule of discipline (discipleship)