{"id":201,"date":"2008-07-06T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-06T19:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/messages\/2008\/what-makes-us-a-church\/"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T17:34:43","slug":"what-makes-us-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/2008\/what-makes-us-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes Us a Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Outline&mdash;Ephesians 2:11&ndash;12<\/h3>\n<h4>The Distance of the Gentiles from God Defined<\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li>The demarcation was made (vv. 11&ndash;12)<\/li>\n<li>The demarcation was maintained (v. 12)\n<ol class=\"level2\">\n<li>Without a Christ&mdash;Christless<\/li>\n<li>Aliens&mdash;Stateless<\/li>\n<li>Strangers from the covenants of promise&mdash;Friendless<\/li>\n<li>Having no hope of any kind&mdash;Hopeless<\/li>\n<li>Atheists in the world&mdash;Godless<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Take Home Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Never forget that the church is a collection-point of the redeemed.<\/li>\n<li>The centrality of Christ is the unifying point in a church.<\/li>\n<li>The warmth of your love for Christ determines the warm of your church relations, and your home relations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Download Recording<\/h3>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080706hi.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Broadband<\/a> Connection (Approx. 22 MB)<\/p>\n<p>For <a href=\"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/audio\/msg20080706lo.mp3\" rel=\"external\">Dial-Up<\/a> Connection (Approx. 2.7 MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outline&mdash;Ephesians 2:11&ndash;12 The Distance of the Gentiles from God Defined The demarcation was made (vv. 11&ndash;12) The demarcation was maintained (v. 12) Without a Christ&mdash;Christless Aliens&mdash;Stateless Strangers from the covenants of promise&mdash;Friendless Having no hope of any kind&mdash;Hopeless Atheists in the world&mdash;Godless Take Home Points Never forget that the church is a collection-point of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hanoverbaptistchurch.dreamhosters.com\/messages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}