His Glorious House: A Blueprint for the 21st Century Church
By Jim Wies
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Meanwhile, Jesus stated that He would build His church and even the gates of hell couldn’t prevail against it. Paul the apostle stated that his ministry was one of a wise master builder, who was carefully laying proper foundations within the Lord’s church. The Scriptures leave no uncertainty as to what those foundations should be and the characteristics the church should display in these last days as we see the church maturing at the end of the age in all Her restoration glory.
In this book, the author has addressed the Church in transition, with the following chapter titles.
“Is the Church Obsolete?”
“What is the Church, and What Isn’t”
“Looking Backward and Looking Forward”
“The Seven-fold Purpose of the Church”
And additional 25 pages of supplemental material is added at the end of this book on the subject of Apostles, Prophets and Pastors and their place in the Church today.
Said the Author: “This book was formed out of an ongoing study of the blueprints of Scripture; a passion to see a manifestation of the church as it could be and should be; a practitioners perspective, having been involved in various leadership rolls in a number of churches in a variety of settings over three decades; and having engaged in traveling ministry for several years, taking me into a wide range of churches of all kinds. I’m still looking for the perfect church. I’ll let you know when I find it.”
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His Glorious House - Jim Wies
Copyright © 2014 by Jim Wies
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Unless otherwise annotated all Scriptures are taken from the NEW KING JAMES VERSION. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. - Scripture quotations marked (NAS) taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960,1962,1963,1968,1971,1972,1973,1975,1977,1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. - Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide. - Scripture quotations marked RSV, are from the REVISED STANDARD VERSION® of the Bible, Public domain. - Scripture quotations marked ASV, are from the AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION® of the Bible, Public domain.
Supplemental Material on Apostles, Prophets and Pastors is a chapter from the book The House of His Choosing
, by Jim Wies, copyright 1999-Destiny Image, used by permission of Destiny Image Publishers, 167 Walnut Bottom Road, Shippensburg, PA 17257 www.destinyimage.com
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INTRODUCTION
This small book has been 35 years in the making. It was formed out of an ongoing study of the blueprints of Scripture; a passion to see a manifestation of the church as it could be and should be; a practitioners perspective, having been involved in various leadership rolls in a number of churches in a variety of settings over three decades; and having engaged in traveling ministry for several years, taking me into a wide range of churches of all kinds. I’m still looking for the perfect church. I’ll let you know when I find it.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
IS THE CHURCH OBSOLETE?
CHAPTER TWO
WHAT IS THE CHURCH, AND WHAT ISN’T
CHAPTER THREE
Looking Backward and Looking Forward
CHAPTER FOUR
THE SEVEN-FOLD PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH
Supplemental Material
Apostles, Prophets and Pastors
CHAPTER ONE
Is the Church obsolete?
Viewing church in light
of the cultural, social and
technological changes
of today
Is the church becoming obsolete? Wow! This writer was shocked at the words that reverberated through my mind and heart. Somehow I felt this was a significant and profound question for a man who has given his life to the church as a pastor and teacher for 30+ years.
When I think of the word obsolete
, my memory takes me be back to the 8 track music player that I absolutely had to have in my first car, as a teenager. A few of us still have a box or two of those old bulky tapes in a garage, but nothing to play them in. Sitting here typing into my word processer, I also remember my first manual typewriter, and the accompanying bottle of white-out
for the spelling mistakes I would inevitably find when I finished typing. Some people believe that the church as we know it is obsolete. They may have a fairly strong point.
Today we are in an amazing age of advanced technology and communications. To drive home the point, consider the invention of the transistor, a little less than 70 years ago. Of course the transistor is a common component of most of our commonly taken for granted electronic items from radios to telephones to sound systems, TVs, microwave ovens, computers, etc. Transistors show up in places as diverse as airplanes, cars, broadcast stations, recording studios, remote controls, air conditioning, etc.
In fact, technology has increased so fast that many people are alive today who were here before television, Xerox, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, plastic contact lenses, digital watches, birth control pills, radar, credit cards, splitting the atom, lasers, frisbees, ball point pens, dishwashers, clothes dryers, electric blankets and air conditioning. They would have never heard of Big Mac’s, instant coffee, daycare, group therapy, nursing homes, FM radio, tape decks, CD’s, cordless keyboards, cellular phones, artificial hearts, ram, megabytes, hard drives, software or word processors.
This shift that we are in surpasses the transition from agricultural to industrial and industrial to technological. It is historic. Our past experiences and our current knowledge may not be adequate in this new age of communications.
The church is in major transition as well. Most people know that the church, as it has been, is neither satisfactory to God nor adequate to the task before us in these closing days of this present age. World population is presenting the possibility for a larger harvest of souls than has even been seen in the cumulative total of the previous 2,000 years. Meanwhile, the question that begs to be asked is Are we trying to package a timeless message in an outdated methodology?
The challenge before the church is how to preserve and propagate an eternal and universal message in the context of a rapidly shifting civilization.
Consider that we only crossed over our first billion in population less than 150 years ago, and now there are approx. 7,000,000,000 on planet earth. An amazing population growth statistic tells us that there are