Iglesia de Cristo en Lawrence
Church of Christ in Lawrence

​Who we are?
We are the congregation of the church of Christ. We are christians, followers or Christ, trying to follow only the word of God.
• Matthew 16:16-18 (NKJ) “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God... on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it."
• Galatians 1:8 (NKJ) But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to you than what you have received, let him be accursed.

• Judas 1:3 (NKJ) Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning out common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.



​What we believe?
• 2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJ) All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
• 2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJ) Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
• Acts 17:11 (NKJ) These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so.
• 2 Peter 1:20 (NKJ) knowing the first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation...



Who is God?
• Isaiah 42:5 (NKJ) Thus says God the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and that which comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it, and spirit to those who walk on it:
• 1 Peter 1:3 (NKJ) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead...
• Revelation 4:8 (NKJ) The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy,Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!".

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Is Jesus God?
• John 1:1 (NKJ) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
• John 5:18 (NKJ) Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.
• Philippians 2:5-6 (NKJ) Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God...

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Is the Holy Spirit God?
• Matthew 12:31-32 (NKJ) Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
• Matthew 28:19 (NKJ) Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...
• 2 Corinthians 13:14 (NKJ) The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ , and the love of God and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

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Which is the biblical government of the church?
• Ephesians 4:15 (NKJ) but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
• 1 Corinthians 15:25 (NKJ For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 
• 1 Pedro 5:1-3 (NKJ) The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;

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What God did to save us?
• John 3:16 (NKJ) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
• 1 Peter 1:17-19 (NKJ) And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear; knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
• Titus 3:4 (NKJ) But when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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What man has to do to be saved?
• John 20:30 (NKJ) And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.
• Romanos 10:9 (NKJ) that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
•  Acts 2:38 (NKJ) Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
• Revelation 2:10 (NKJ) .... Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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It's baptism necessary?
• Mark 16:16 (NKJ) He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned.
• Acts 22:16 (NKJ) And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
• 1 Peter 3:21 (NKJ) There is also an antitype which now saves us—baptism (not the removal of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God), through the resurrection of Jesus Christ...

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Fruit of the Spirit
• 1 Corinthians 13:8 (NKJ) Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
• Galatians 5:22-23 (NKJ) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.


Will Jesus come a second time?
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NKJ) For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
• John 5:28-29 (NKJ) Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. 
• 2 Peter 3:10-11 (NKJ) But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

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¿What's the reason for the unity with Christ?
• Ephesians 4:2-6 (NKJ) with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

​Our Mission:​
Make what God wants from us on Earth:
• Matthew 28:19-20 (NKJ) “Again I say[a] to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

• Ephesians 4:12-16 (NKJ) for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in lover.​