The Church Everyone Wants to Join

I was re-reading today an article by Bruce Corley, "We See Jesus: Biblical Vision for a New Millennium," from the Southwestern Journal of Theology (Summer 2002): 14-27. In it is a wonderful outline that could be easily preached from Hebrews 10:19-25. Corley writes: "The summary exhortation of Hebrews, a cluster of "let us" commands . . . describes in five 'no so easy pieces' this church everyone wants to join:"

• Where worship is confidently offered (vv. 19, 22).
• Where truth is faithfully proclaimed (vv. 22-23).
• Where love is contagiously shared (v. 24).
• Where attendance is habitually encouraged (v. 25).
• Where Jesus is preeminently exalted (v. 21).