Elder Matt Gwinn

<p>Our faith and salvation is backed by the immeasurable greatness of God's power toward us who believe.<br></p>

<p>The need for giving and receiving admonition.<br></p>

<p>We are sons and daughters of the most high King. Let's act like it.<br></p>

<p>We are called to discipline. We need a context in which to exercise discipline. We need to act in discipline.<br></p>

<p>We have a call to live sacrificially, and in doing so we are examples to those who grow up in our presence, pointing them to Jesus and calling them to live faithfully in Christ’s calling.</p>

<p>Knitting together by the “ligaments” of the Body of Christ is the ordained means Christ built into the nature and function of the church so that that we might be protected from the “elemental spirits of the world” and not be “deluded [by] plausible arguments.”</p>

<p>How will you use this new year ahead? Will you engage&nbsp;change with spirit led boldness? Or will you sit while unwholesome change happens to you?</p>

<p>Though we were once condemned by our sin and unfit for use, God has chosen us as his elected exiles, sanctifying us by his Spirit and justifying us through the blood of Christ so that there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.</p>