2. 1 Corinthians 12:18
But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

3. We are placed into
a LIVING BODY
the church.

4. The church is
God’s TOOL for reaching the lost.

5. He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”
Matthew 16:15
He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

6. Matthew 16:16
Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

7. Matthew 16:17
Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

8. Matthew 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

9. Church is built on God’s ACTIVITY in Him revealing Himself to the
hearts of men.

10. 1 Corinthians 2:12
Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

11. 1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.