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The Great Ends of the Church
The Great Ends of the Church
January 11 – February 15, 2015
More than one hundred years ago, our denomination adopted a set of statements collectively referred to as The Great Ends of the Church. Even now, in the twenty-first century, these statements capture so well the purpose and function of the church in the world. It is an extraordinary challenge to keep these “great ends” in focus as we go about our life and work as a local expression of the body of Christ, but each of them represents an essential task, and to the extent that any one of them is neglected, we fail to be who God has called us to be.
