Fixing Our Eyes on Jesus Together
Jordan Thomas is a husband, father of six, and founding pastor of Grace Church, Memphis. After preparing for the ministry through college and seminary, Jordan went on to train in church planting at Bethlehem Baptist Church before returning to Memphis, Tennessee to plant Grace Church in 2007. Jordan now continues in local church ministry through shepherding the fold at Grace Church and leading with Treasuring Christ Together Church-Planting Network.
Christ Our Treasure: Enjoying the Preeminence of Jesus in the Local Church is an 8-week multimedia Bible study by Jordan Thomas that invites you to to return to Scripture to behold the beauty of Christ, contemplate the role of the local church in the Christian life, and learn what God says about the purpose of each body of believers: to treasure Christ above all else, together. Coming this month from Media Gratiae.
Beholding the glory of Jesus is the primary reason Jesus told His Father that He wants us to be with Him forever.
Until we are with Jesus forever, we will need help remaining focused on Him. This study aims to aid entire congregations to treasure Jesus together. Absorb it again: Beholding the glory of Jesus is the primary reason Jesus told His Father that He wants us to be with Him forever (John 17:24). The grand incentive for occupants of heaven is that “they will see His face” (Revelation 22:4). Together. Gazing upon Christ. Forever.
Seeing Christ’s full-orbed glory is the great reward for all glorified saints.
The Psalmist’s “one thing” that he wanted more than anything else was to “dwell in the house of the LORD” so that he could “behold the beauty of the LORD” (Psalm 27:4). He desired to live with Him so that he could look at Him. Seeing Christ’s full-orbed glory is the great reward for all glorified saints. Until then, the Psalmist’s cry is the yearning of all who are on their way to glory!
The evidence that our eternal destination is with Christ will be manifested by our sights being set upon Him now.
The evidence that our eternal destination is with Christ will be manifested by our sights being set upon Him now. We would be epic fools to suppose that our unending interest in beholding Jesus will initiate upon entrance into eternity if we have no interest in beholding Him now. May churches afresh, “Turn our eyes upon Jesus, look full in His wonderful face, as the things of earth grow strangely dim, in the light of His glory and grace.”