The two weeks following the end of the 2023 academic school year were not a quiet summer respite for 14 communication students at Walla Walla University. Instead, the days, and sometimes late nights, …… Source: https://adventist.news/en/news/adventist-university-students-contribute-to-the-color-of-threads-production
L’amore è l’adempimento della legge
Sermone a cura del past. Franco Evangelisti Di Ivo. Versetto introduttivo: Romani 13:8-14. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1zLOQmMSUE
Thursday: The Church, a Holy Temple
What culminating set of images does Paul use in Ephesians 2:11-22 to signal unity between Jews and Gentiles in the church?
Reviewing Ephesians 2:1-22, we recall that verses 1-10 teach that we live in solidarity with Jesus, while verses 11-22 teach that we live in solidarity with others as part of His church. Jesus’ death has both vertical benefits in establishing our relationship with God (Ephesians 2:1-10) and horizontal ones in cementing our relationships with others (Ephesians 2:11-22).
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Through the Cross, Jesus demolishes all that divides Gentile believers from Jewish ones, including the misuse of the Law in order to widen the gulf (Ephesians 2:11-18). Jesus also builds something — an amazing, new temple composed of believers. Gentiles, once excluded from worship in the sacred places of the temple, now join Jewish believers in becoming a new temple. We all become part of God’s church, “a holy temple in the Lord” (Ephesians 2:19-22, ESV) and are privileged to live in solidarity with Jesus and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
How does Paul’s use of the metaphor of the church as a temple in Ephesians 2:19-22 compare with the uses in the following passages? 1 Corinthians 3:9-17; 2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1; 1 Peter 2:4-8.
Paul employs the metaphor of the church as temple as a culminating image for the full inclusion of Gentiles in the church. Once banned from worship in the “Court of Israel” in the temple, they now not only gain access (Ephesians 2:18) but themselves become building materials for a new temple designed as “a dwelling place of God in the Spirit” (Ephesians 2:22, NKJV).
New Testament authors employ the temple metaphor to visualize the sanctity of the church, God’s role in founding and growing the church, and the solidarity of believers within the church. The metaphor is used in conjunction with biological language (see Ephesians 2:21-22, where the temple “grows”), and the process of building is often accentuated (see , “you also are being built together,” ESV). Rather than a static image, the church is able to acknowledge its identity as “the temple of the living God” (2 Corinthians 6:16, NKJV).
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God First Your Daily Prayer Meeting – July 26, 2023
Matthew 21:22 – "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." Tag someone in need of prayer and kindly share your prayer requests here. https://bit.ly/3GdFXpR Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njjmArnybKo
Iglesia Adventista en Argentina se declara culpable de contrabando
El 24 de mayo de 2023, el Tribunal Oral en lo Criminal Federal Nro. 5 de San Martín, Buenos Aires, emitió autos y visto “para resolver en el presente incidente de falta de acción formado en el marco de la causa FSM 42199/2016/TO1/22 (RI N° 3912)”. En un proceso que inicio en julio de 2016, […] Source: https://atoday.org/iglesia-adventista-en-argentina-se-declara-culpable-de-contrabando/
