I want to draw your attention to the fourth chapter of Ephesians as we continue our series on How to Recognize a Real Church. And I do understand that we are covering some sort of basic truth; this might be called Ecclesiology 101, basic teaching on the nature of the church drawn from the New Testament. But in every generation of life at Grace Community Church, this is germane to how we view our experience here and it is essential for us to understand. I don't want to ever take for granted that people who come to Christ, come to Grace Church, understand what they need to understand about the life of the church. We can't assume that, and we can't even assume it on the basis of the fact that some folks had come from other churches, because we can no longer assume that having been in the church is necessarily the way you would find out the truth about the church, sad as that may be. . . .
