{"id":9582,"date":"2016-08-17T00:48:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchunity-church-presence-of-christ\/"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:48:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T05:48:51","slug":"churchunity-church-presence-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchunity-church-presence-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"CHURCH:\nUNITY; CHURCH: PRESENCE OF CHRIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>It is amazing that many people regard the Christian church as just another institution and the observance of Communion as just one of its periodic rituals. Any genuine, New Testament church actually <i>is<\/i> communion. It is not an institution. The Bible makes that plain.\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Blessed is the congregation that has found the spiritual maturity and understanding to honestly confess, \u201cOur congregation is so keenly aware of the presence of Jesus in our midst that our entire fellowship is an unceasing communion!\u201d What a joyful experience it is for us in this church age to be part of a congregation drawn together by the desire to know God\u2019s presence, to sense His nearness.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>John 17:20\u201324; 1 Corinthians 11:23\u201329; Colossians 1:3\u20134<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Tragedy in the Church: The Missing Gifts,<\/i> 112, 113.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is amazing that many people regard the Christian church as just another institution and the observance of Communion as just one of its periodic rituals. Any genuine, New Testament church actually is communion. It is not an institution. The Bible makes that plain.\u2026 Blessed is the congregation that has found the spiritual maturity and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/churchunity-church-presence-of-christ\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHURCH:<br \/>\nUNITY; CHURCH: PRESENCE OF CHRIST&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}