Week 31 Day 1 – Christ is the only foundation of the church

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 28, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ....

Week 30 Day 5 – The church is called to use its gifts for the good of all

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 25, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues… Are all apostles? Are all...

Week 30 Day 4 – The church is interdependent and caring

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 24, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I have no need of you,’ nor again the head to the feet, ‘I have no need of you.’ On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable… that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have...

Week 30 Day 3 – The church is arranged by God

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 23, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. – Mark 10:30a Here is the truth: God is the one who arranges the members of the...

Week 30 Day 2 – The church is made of many parts, all needed

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 22, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the...

Week 30 Day 1 – The church is one body through one spirit

by Esplanad Gospel Centre | Jul 21, 2025 | Weekly Devotions

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. – 1...