Blueprints and patterns are exceptionally important. Indeed, contractors, tailors, cabinet makers, and people in other design-based vocations rely upon them daily. It provides a plan to follow in the building and asssembling process to minimize errors and ensure uniformity in production. Whether it be houses, dresses, furniture, cars, muffins, etc., if the same pattern is followed, then the final product will have brand consistency. This concept is also seen in the New Testament Church.
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– PARABLES OF JESUS –
The Parable of the Sheepfold
In John 10, Jesus used an illustration about the sheep in the sheepfold. The illustration is a parable regarding the door, the sheep, and the potential for robbers and thiefs to steal what is not their’s. It reads:
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Does it make any difference what church we are a member of? Is one just as good as the next? Newspapers today tell us to “Join the Church of your choice.” The selection is amazing! There are large groups, small groups, charismatic groups, not so charismatic groups. Groups who use creed books and groups who don’t. Groups who use the Old and New Testament and groups who use only one or the other. The question we need to ask about church membership is not which group I want to assemble with, but rather, which group would God have me assemble with?
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