Gospel Community: MAINTAINING OUR UNITY!

East Cobb Presbyterian exists to glorify God by creating, maintaining, and extending gospel community so that together we can experience and express the reconciling love and renewing grace of the gospel. As a leadership team, we are organizing to accomplish this vision and we’d like to share with you how we’re doing that. To center us biblically, we’ll spend the next two weeks in Ephesians 4:1-16. Here the Apostle Paul speaks to the nature and function of the church.

This week we’ll consider the nature of the church as the body of Christ, united by grace through faith. While ethnically and generationally diverse, the body is united under our Lord Jesus, pictured as the head of the church. The unity that we have in Christ is something we are instructed to “maintain.” This tells us that our unity in Christ isn’t the issue, but the maintenance of it often requires more effort than we give it.

Our goal is to exist as the body of Christ, united by grace, maintaining that unity, so that we can function together in the graces that we’ve received. This week we’ll consider what’s required to maintain that unity, and next week, what that function looks like. Pastorally, we’re asking God to make a community where it’s “safe to speak.”

Join us Sunday as we worship the Lord and unite ourselves together as the body.