The Beauty Of The Church
Pastor David Robinson.
The beauty of the church. He evidences the pleasure and delight which He takes in the beauty of His people by letting them into the knowledge of these things which are hid from the men of the world Psalm 2514. Its beauty its grace. A prayer for my children and the students who call me their Chaplain is that they see all the beauty within the Body of Christ which no one church or denomination can fully capture by itself.
There was a lay person I met early in my ministry who said Craig as much as you might want to reform or revive the church God has clearly called you to help restore its beauty. As John Paul II quoted Cyprian Norwid a noted Polish poet. But this is not the beauty for which Christ looks.
While beauty can be these things there is also beauty in the voice of God. The church is blessed with a Shrine of the Holy Sovereigns. The Imaginative Conservative applies.
Christ evidences great delight in the beauty of His people by keeping company with them and admitting them to the enjoyment of sweet fellowship and communion with Himself Revelation 320 4. We fully embrace Jesus directive. The church stands as the dwelling place of the Lord on Earth and a reflects the Church dwelling in Heaven Built of Living Stones 17.
Its time to spark a renewed affection for the church. Marks Day April 25and she and her husband King Kamehameha IV are regularly invoked in our list of saints. In the church environment where results and numbers are held in such esteem it is hard to quantify beauty.
I am in awe at the purity of the Churchs teachings. You will be my witnesses telling people about me everywhere in Jerusalem throughout Judea in Samaria and to the ends. It also suggests that Americas solution lies in a Prodigal Sons return like that of Huysmans.