Benefits of Being Part of a Local Church
Paul Pierucki · July 29, 2026 · 6:00 PM service
Preaching from Matthew 18:20, Pastor Pierucki lays out why God places His people in a local assembly, covering church discipline, the pictures of sheep and shepherd, the body with Christ as the head, and the church's authority over baptism and the Lord's Supper. He warns from experience that believers who pull away from a local church end up exposed to Satan's work in their lives, and he answers the idea of an invisible universal church as convenient cover for those unwilling to submit. He closes by pointing to Ephesians 4 and Acts 13, urging Christians to get into a church, work together under God's authority, and let Him use them rather than serving Him their own way.
“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”