What are the marks of a good church? By a "good" church we mean not just an authentic fellowship of believers - that would be rare enough - but also a church that's attractive to someone who's genuinely interested in real Life from the true God. What signs would such a person look for - consciously or unconsciously? Jim will help us think about that as he opens a new series in the book of Colossians. Both the sermon and the series are called, The People of God. Here's Part 1.

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"This is not a pipe." René Magritte painted a picture of a tobacco pipe and captioned it, Ceci n'est pas une pipe - "This is not a pipe." He started people thinking about what he called, "The Treachery of Images." When is a rose not a rose, but only a likeness of a rose? When is a toaster just a hunk of scrap metal? And when is a "Christian" merely a hollow facsimile of the real thing? Jim's sermon is called, The People of God are Spirit-Energized.

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