The church isn\u2019t made up of people who are better than everybody else. It\u2019s made up of people who want to be better than they are, and who know that, by the grace of God, they can be. Have church leaders sometimes failed us? Yes, but Jesus Christ, the Head of the church, hasn\u2019t failed us\u2014and He never will! Christ\u2019s church, of which your local church is a part, was planned by God before the world began (Ephesians\u00a01:4). It was paid for in the crimson cash of Jesus\u2019 blood and has been sustained through history by the sacrifice of the martyrs. It is prophesied to be more glorious in its ending than its beginning and is being prepared right now as a bride for her Husband. John the Revelator describes it this way: \u2018Rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.\u2019 <\/i>(Revelation\u00a019:7\u00a0NKJV) So before you attack the leadership, withdraw your membership or withhold your stewardship, remember that nothing on earth is dearer to the heart of God than His church. The truth is, when you hurt any part of the body you also hurt the Head. And here\u2019s something else to keep in mind: the only thing on earth that has a future is the church; all the rest is going up in smoke. And the church\u2019s insurance policy is guaranteed by Jesus Himself, Who said, \u2018I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.\u2019<\/i> (Matthew\u00a016:18\u00a0NKJV) So love your church\u2014Jesus does!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The church isn\u2019t made up of people who are better than everybody else. It\u2019s made up of people who want to be better than they are, and who know that, by the grace of God, they can be. Have church leaders sometimes failed us? Yes, but Jesus Christ, the Head of the church, hasn\u2019t failed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}