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Apr 25, 2023 · As Christian women seeking to build deep connections with our fellow sisters in Christ, here are five critical facts every woman should know about sisterhood in the Church: 1. Sisterhood promotes spiritual growth: Sisters in Christ can help each other grow spiritually through encouragement, prayer, Biblical discussions, accountability and ...
I work with women to actually find themselves in Christ and have their lives truly function well in Him. Often, I am serving those most hurt by the world – those who have experienced severe trauma and abuse - and helping them to find complete healing from the pain and the memories.
Dr. Kim West delivers healing for the deepest of wounds, next level spiritual growth and tools for powerful living in Christ. If you are ready for a truly big life in Christ then you are in the right place.
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The description of the church as a body is more than simply an analogy. It is the revealing of a mystery. The church isn’t a mere organization; it really is an organism. Christ’s body is alive. And like a human body, it is an incarnation of unity in diversity: To grasp this reality — the church as a living body — is to see a beautiful balance betwe...
Most of us don’t struggle with understanding how the entire church, the collective body, is necessary to God’s purposes in the world. And most of us can see how particular members of the body are also necessary. But we might harbor doubts that all the members, particularly ourselves, are really necessary. To address this common doubt, the Spirit, t...
One important reason God considers each individual member indispensable is because each member is indwelled, animated, and gifted by the Holy Spirit. Christ is the head of the church-body (Colossians 1:18). And analogous to how the nervous system empowers the individual members of our bodies to carry out the will and desires of our heads, the Holy ...
All of this means that different members are going to be compelled to do different things. And it means different members are going to feel differently about priorities: what needs to be done and what needs to be said. For example, some will feel an urgency to focus on countering false teaching in the church, and others an urgency to care for vulne...
A robust understanding of and trust in God’s glorious design of a unified body comprised of very diverse members is meant to produce profound gratitude — gratitude to God for his incredible grace toward us all, and gratitude for the indispensable gifts others are to the body. It is a great gift to know that we don’t have to perform functions in the...
May 26, 2021 · 1 Corinthians 12:12–13. “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.”
Sep 19, 2004 · The phrase I want us to focus on is the phrase, “in Christ” in verse 5a: “so we, though many, are one body in Christ.” What this phrase means is that the interwoven unity of all the members into one body is created and brought about in Christ.
Kim Riddlebarger. Dr. Kim Riddlebarger is the author several books, including A Case for Amillennialism: Understanding the End Times and host of the Blessed Hope Podcast. He is pastor emeritus of Christ Reformed Church in Anaheim, Calif., and has served several terms as visiting professor of systematic theology at Westminster Seminary California.
