, Objectives 4. Wingly share tothe aspects of reality or refer toa person on the Images. Images of the Chu rch 2 Pl ot te yet mages andi aan erate of the 23. Grasp the realty ofthe Church by discussing her biblical images. 4. Mako the meanings ofthe images of the Church part of one" ceverytay I the guldance of the Holy Spit to avold staying from love vies of Jesus. Body of Christ (continued) + This is the most prominent image in Paul's Jetters and the only one with no Old Body of Christ Together, we form the Body of Christ. If sone suffers, all parts, Testament equivalent. ‘suffer. Jone partis + Christ the Head rules and honored, all the parts nourishes jod). He is share its joy. the onlyWead, and the Geb SoBDs the bea iat animates the Body. I] a | = Body of Christ (continued) “Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it’ (4 Corinthians 12:27) Body of Christ (continued) + inthcigters of Pah the expression ‘the body of Christ’ refers to: ~ the huiman body of "We, though many, are one body in Christ” (Romans 12:5). Jesus Christ = his presence in the ‘Sacrament of the Eucharist — his body, which ig the Church.oxy of Christ (continued) Bride of Christ ‘Grow in very Way Into + The,Church isthe Bride, and, therefore, him who is the head, Christ, Christ is the Groom, to whom the Church is from whom the whole body, promised and given Renee anes + This mtaphor speaks of Christ's great love about the body's growth forthe Church... in love” Ephesians 415-16) fo { 2 Bride of Christ (continued) Chiist’s Floek> + The unity of Christ, the Groom, and the + Jesus is the Good, ‘Church, the Bride, reveals something of the Shepherd, the Great intimate relationship God intends for husband. ‘Shepherd, and the Chief and wife, as Christ and the Church can be 7 ‘Shepherd, who knows described as two becoming one flesh. and watches over his + AtChrist’s return, God's ‘sheep and gives his life People are described as i § for them, a bride beautifully dressed 4 * They know his voice and for her husband (Christ). follow him. Christ's Flock (continued) Kingdom of GoP + To describe his relationship to his disciples, Itis the Kingdom of God's beloved Son, a Jesus says he is the gate by which the \gdom of “righteousness, peace, and joy in the 1eep (his disciples holy Spirit’ (Romans 14:17) inwhich he exercises his rule in his People through the SpiritVine and Vineyard (continued) Jeaue uses the + _He is the true vine, his Eather the vine ‘metaphor of tho vit ‘grower, and his disciples the branches. snd te prenetee + Only if they abide in him, and he abides in ddeacriba the intimal thom, will they bear fait rplationship he has with his disciples. ui “femple of the Holy Spirh Temple of the Holy Spirit (continued) + God's People are a building “not made with + The Old Testament temple has become the hands” (2 Corinthians 5:1), which God is people in whom he now dwells by his Spirit, constructing. being the foundation or gornerstone. + Individual Christian’ are stones built into Temple of the Holy Spirit (continued) Temple of the Holy Spirit (continued) Capen to Christians as “living stones.” + (Bui gives a severe warning to any who he structure of the temple of the Holy Spirit would cause division in the fellowship, as depends on Jesus Christ as the “comerstone" » gamdohur ‘was happening in the Corinthian Church: “i for its coherence and stability. anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy that person; for the temple of God, which you are, is holy’ (1 Corinthians 3:17).ee 4g -— Famil + This is the most pervasive m Church in the New Testament, 1 for the, Aeople of God> = This image is rooted in the Old Testament covenants, where God accompanies and loves the Israelites. + The New Covenant, sealed in the Lord's blood, invites all people everywhere to unite. * God calls the Church into existence, forming a community of faith, hor and, is (Jove centered in Christ ‘and empowered by the Holy Spirit. Family (continued) + We be ae children of God the@Fathbr by having faith in Jesus Christ, theSon and by receiving the Holy Spint, : capt is the symbol Gur adoption into the family of the triune God elder brother. “ i] : s Common Theme + The common theme of these images of the Church is relationships: telationship with his People as fusband, King, Father, Builder — theeople of relationship with God as Bride, Flock, Family, Body — our relationship with one another as branches of the same vine, she same flock, children in the same family, members of the same body