Curtis Going As a little boy sitting on a church pew, with legs too short to touch the floor, and an attention span that was even shorter, my mother quietly taught me the words and the hand gestures to a familiar little poem that generations of church-going children have committed to memory.  Here’s the church. Here’s the steeple. Open the doors. See all the people.  Close the doors. Hear them pray. Open the doors. They’ve all gone away. A simple children’s poem which reminds us that it is...

Bob Blankenship To help Christians understand their responsibility to one another, Paul compares the church to a body. He gives two contrasting ideas to help explain the way in which believers relate to each other. 1) As a body, the church has diversity. “For the body is not one member, but many.” (I Corinthians 12:14) There is one body but it has many parts. 2) As a body, the church also has unity. “But now are they many members, yet but one body.” (I Corinthians 12:20) All of the parts must...

DALE CHAPMAN The people of God are a “called out” and separated assembly of God-indwelt beings. The Church is greatly diminished when we think of it as merely a physical building. Instead, it is people, and especially the gathering of people in the name and presence of Jesus. The presence of God Himself is manifested when as few as two or three gather in His name. This is the result of each one being saturated with the Spirit of God. In other words, our Personal Quiet Time comes to church with...

Jonathan Edwards Some of my earliest recollections as a child growing up in the church include the vibrant singing of God’s people. Coming from a family focused a lot on music, I remember singing the song often “The Family of God.” Reading from the writings of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians we read, “As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.” (Galatians 6:10) As we combine the thoughts of the song with this...

H. Orton Wiley Holiness people devote themselves to the preaching of holiness, and have constantly urged upon the Church the necessity of pressing into this precious experience. Their primary reason for this is that they are in earnest about seeing men and women saved and made ready for heaven, and the Scriptures say that without holiness “no man shall see the Lord.” Many other things they regard as nonessential, but to this great truth they devote all their energy. The distinctive teaching...