Why The Church is Marvelous
BECAUSE GOD’S SOVEREIGN GRACE IS MARVELOUS
The Church is what God is doing in the world. And as we look at her, what do we see at the center of her life? The glory of God. The most important thing about the Church is not the Church, it's God. In Ephesians, Paul can hardly make it through the letter's opening before he erupts in praise to the God of the Church. He reaches back before the beginning of time (1:4-5), journeys to the climatic moment of salvation history (1:6-7), enters into the present lives of his readers (1:11-13), and then raises their eyes upward to the grand ending God is writing for his chief protagonist (1:14). From start to finish, every movement of God has had one goal in mind: the praise of his glorious grace. The Church exists because God desired to possess a people to enjoy his glory forevermore. The Church is most faithful, joyful, and pure when she is as about God as he is about himself.