Facing Prometheus: Built Together | Week 41 | “Under Construction” | Pastor Jason Parrish
Most people treat church one of two ways: a finished building to consume, or a flawed building to critique. Pastor Jason Parrish offers a third. The church is a site where God is still working, and where he intends to move in. The dust is not evidence that something is wrong. It is evidence that God is building. This message lays out six things The Well is committed to as a house.
Watch the full service, including worship, announcements, and more, on our YouTube playlist.
Foundational Scripture for This Message
Ephesians 2:19–22 (CSB)
So, then, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the whole building, being put together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you are also being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.
About the Series
We’re currently in Facing Prometheus: A Letter to the Ephesians and the Future Church Dilemma, a 48-week look at how Paul’s letter to the church in Ephesus can transform our lives. This message is part of Built Together, a sub-series within Facing Prometheus and the beginning of a two-year discipleship journey for our church. For more on what the larger series is about, watch the prequel message here.
Sources Referenced
- Basil the Great. Homilies on the Psalms 13.3, in Psalms 51–150. Edited by Quentin F. Wesselschmidt. Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture OT 8. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
- Chan, Simon. Pentecostal Ecclesiology: An Essay on the Development of Doctrine. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 38. Blandford Forum: Deo, 2011.
- Ignatius of Antioch. To the Ephesians 9.1, in The Apostolic Fathers. Translated by J. B. Lightfoot and J. R. Harmer. London: Macmillan, 1891.
- Jackman, David, and Lloyd J. Ogilvie. Judges, Ruth. Vol. 7, The Preacher’s Commentary Series. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1991.
- Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: Introduction and Biographic Information. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005.
