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Transformed In Christ - Built Up in Love: How Christ Heals, Equips, and Grows His Body

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The Atmosphere of Love and the Pivotal Word "Rather" In the grand architecture of Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, chapter 4 serves as the watershed moment where heavenly doctrine descends directly into earthly, relational dynamic. In his powerful message,  "Built Up in Love" — When Each Part Is Working Properly  (Part 57 of the ongoing  Transformed in Christ  series delivered at Grace Gospel Church),  Pastor Sam Merigala  brings us face-to-face with the glorious reality of how the church actually grows, heals, and matures into spiritual wholeness. To grasp the full weight of this proclamation, we must remember where Pastor Sam Merigala left off in his previous sermon. Last week, we were given two vivid biblical pictures of unstable Christian living: a small boat without a keel and without an anchor, violently tossed by every passing wave and blown off course by every treacherous wind of doctrine. Pastor Sam reminded us that what keeps a...
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Transformed In Christ - No Longer Children, Growing Up into Christ

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In the journey of Christian discipleship, few challenges are as urgent or as pervasive as the threat of spiritual stagnation and instability. As believers navigating a modern landscape flooded with competing voices, viral spiritual soundbites, and shifting cultural tides, we must continually ask ourselves a fundamental diagnostic question:  What is determining the direction of your spiritual life?  Is your walk with God anchored in the unshakeable truth of Jesus Christ, or is it continually redirected by your latest emotion, the newest popular voice, or the desire for human approval? In Part 56 of the ongoing sermon series Transformed in Christ, delivered at Grace Gospel Church, Pastor Sam Merigala addressed this very question through a masterful and deeply pastoral exposition of Ephesians 4:14–15. Building upon the prior week’s message regarding the ultimate destination of the local church—attaining to the unity of the faith, coming to the mature knowledge of the Son of ...
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Transformed In Christ - Until We All Grow Up

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In our ongoing spiritual journey through the Apostle Paul’s breathtaking epistle to the Ephesians, we frequently arrive at passages that shake us out of our spiritual lethargy and force us to examine the very foundations of our Christian walk. In part 55 of the expositional series titled Transformed in Christ, delivered at Grace Gospel Church, Pastor Sam Merigala brought us back to the heart of God's design for the local church in his sermon titled "Until We All Grow Up". To fully grasp the glorious horizon Paul paints in Ephesians 4:13, we must first recall where Pastor Sam left us in the preceding message. In opening Ephesians 4:11–12, Pastor Sam demonstrated that the gifted leader-teachers given by the ascended Christ—the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers—were never appointed to perform all the work of ministry on behalf of a passive, spectating congregation. Their sacred commission is not to entertain an audience or carry out every practical task ...
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