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Bible and Reality Church Community Design: J. L. Caravias sj. I tell youy: You are Peter, (or Rock ), and on this rock I will build my Church. Mt 16:18. The Church was building up, with eyes turned to the Lord, and filled with the confort of the Holy Spirit. Acts 9:31.
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Bible and Reality Church Community Design:J. L. Caravias sj
I tell youy: You are Peter, (or Rock), and on this rock I will build my Church. Mt 16:18 The Church was building up, with eyes turned to the Lord, and filled with the confort of the Holy Spirit. Acts 9:31
They remained faithful to the teaching of the apostles, to the brotherhood, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers. And all who shared the faith owned everything in common.y compartían todo cuanto tenían.Acts 2:42,44 The apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus with great power.Acts 4:33 The whole group of believers was united, heart and soul.Acts 4:32
Christ is the Head of the Body, that is, the Church. He is the Beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that he should be supreme in every wayCol 1:18 Christ's body is yourselves, each of you with a part to play in the whole. 1 Cor 12:27
Husbands should love their wives, just as Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her. To make her holy by washing her in cleansing water with a form of words, so that when he took the Church to himself she would be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle or anything like that, but holy and faultless. Eph 5:25-27
Godhas put all things under his feet, and made him,the head of the Church; which is his Body, the fullness of him who is filled, all in all. Eph 1:22-23
When you meet together, it is not the Lord’s Supper that you eat, because while one going hungry, another is getting drunk. Have you such disregard for God's assembly that you can put to shame those who 1 Cor 11:20-22 have nothing?
You are well aware of the generositywhich our Lord Jesus Christ had, that, although he was rich, he became poor for your sake, so that you should become rich through his poverty. The basis on which it is acceptable is what someone has, not what someone does not have. It is not that you ought to relieve other people's needs and leave yourselves in hardship; but there should be a fair balance: your surplus at present may fill their deficit, and another time their surplus may fill your deficit. 2 Cor 8:9,12-14
It makes me happy to be suffering for you now, and in my own body to make up all the hardships that still have to be undergone by Christ for the sake of his body, the Church. Col 1:24
glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen. Eph 3:20-21 Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine,