Author: Mike Mobley

Follower of Christ, Husband to Joelle, Father to Peyton & Matthew, Finance & Operations Pastor at 121 Community Church, SAG-AFTRA Actor, Founder of Before The Cross, Owner of MMWCS, and Podcast Host for the Not Quite There Show.
Biblical Teachings
Baptism, Lord’s Supper, & Spiritual Gifts

The two ceremonies (ordinances) Christ commanded His Church to perform are Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Baptism symbolizes dying and rising with Christ and having sins washed away (Romans 6:1-11). The Lord’s Supper is to be observed repeatedly by believers as a sign of continuing in fellowship with Christ (Matthew

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Biblical Teachings
What Is The Church?

The Church is the community of all true believers for all time (Ephesians 1:22-23 – And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all). The invisible church is the church as God sees it, and

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Biblical Teachings
Conversion, Sanctification, and Death

Justification is an instantaneous legal act of God in which he (1) thinks of our sins as forgiven and Christ’s righteousness as belonging to us, and (2) declares us to be righteous in his sight (Galatians 2:16). Adoption is an act of God whereby he makes us members of his

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Biblical Teachings
Common Grace & Salvation

Common grace is the grace of God by which he gives people innumerable blessings that are not part of salvation (Matthew 5:44-45). God gives common grace in the physical, intellectual, moral, creative, societal, and religious realms. God gives common grace to redeem those who will be saved, and to demonstrate

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