пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 26.04 2015 Видение Церкви - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to continue to talk about the church. Last Sunday, we reasoned that many are still not open - about the need for a church in human life, and today I want to talk about how we see the Church. There are basic concepts that are considered well-known, but precisely because people, husbands and wives do not discuss what each of them means by the word “family” often and stains occur. Friends, it is time for us to admit the need to say that we consider “granted”, because in fact we understand not the same thing, and the sooner we see it, the easier it will be for us to accept the differentness of the perception of another person. Today I want to offer us to reflect on how we see the Church, what we mean when we pronounce this word. I remember once, in the early 90s it was widespread among the preachers of the Protestant churches to speak from the department that the church is not a building, but a collection of believers. But ap. Paul says that this collection of believers has yet to come to the unity of faith, for this, according to the Holy Scripture, God supplies the ministers: to the commission of the saints, to the work of ministry, to create the body of Christ, we will still come to the unity of faith and knowledge of the son God, in the husband of the perfect, to the best of the full age of Christ; EF. 4: 12-13. It turns out that the church is a collection of believers that rushes to come into the unity of faith. And I will take the courage to say that the more this aspiration, the more we are the church. If there is a meeting, but there is no aspiration to come to the unity of faith or is not enough, it turns out that, according to the fabulist, this is the collection of “swan, cancer and pike”, in which, already according to the sad testimony of the apostle: everyone is looking for their own , and not whatever Jesus for Christ. Phil. 2:21. And here is my question: is such a meeting of the Church before God? Of course, one can call the “Church”, as the Mormons call themselves the “Church of the Saints of the last days”, but we know that this is a collection of heretics, not born from above, a collection of corruptions. And the Lord Himself talks about one of the churches in the book Revelation: I know your affairs; You wear a name as if alive, but you are dead. Rev. 3: 1. Therefore, the question is not only to get together, this is a necessary condition, but not the only church that makes us a church. I'm not afraid to compare the church with my family, because AP. Paul does this when he says: therefore, a man will leave his father and his mother and stick to his wife, and there will be two one flesh. The secret of this is great; I speak in relation to Christ and to the Church. EF. 5: 31-32. It’s a little easier for us to understand with the family, and here's what I want to ask: does the family become a family from registration at the registry office, from conducting a joint farm and from the birth of children? Speaking “family”, I imply unity and mutual understanding between a man and a woman who love each other and have a force in this love and unity to overcome all the difficulties “Dathered Death will not separate them”. If the registration of marriage and the birth of children gave this force, then we would not see so many divorces and so many tragedies in families! No, this unity must be built, you have to fight for this love and it never happens that everything has already been done, there are no “built relationships” in the family, they are always built, but if we have experience overcoming the difficulties and misunderstanding of each other, If we learn to accommodate each other and long tolerate then, according to the scripture: patience comes from sorrow, from patience, experience, from experience, hope, and hope does not shame. Rome. 5: 3-5. What has been done together, the experience of overcoming difficulties, the experience of gaining unity becomes the value of the family, it is like a cement combining "living stones" together. At the same time, some external goals that we have planned for ourselves can be achieved or not, at some point it does not matter, because the main thing can be and is only what we have overcome together, which we learned together. Those who committed this discovery can build a family that will be able to overcome any difficulties, and those who build on “external” achievements will be together only under the conditions of “external” success. Therefore, Christ, as the Scripture tells us: being God, did not read the theft to be equal to God; But he humiliated himself, accepting the image of a slave. Phil. 2: 6-7. He walked with the apostles not as a successful “dynamic preacher of a rapidly growing church”, but as persecuted, as an attach to complaints, like the one that many were seduced, and he himself witnessed to them: you had been with me in my misfortunes. Onion. 22:28. In these sorrows, in these persecutions, the first church was born, and it was not just a “meeting on Sundays”, no, they went along with Jesus and with each other the path, they paid their price, as AP testifies. Peter: Here, we left everything and followed you. Onion. 18:28. We want to be a church and this is good and like to the Lord, but it is important for us to understand that we are building something more than the "Ezhevskiy Assembly + Assembly in home groups + ten ten