---
title: 'What God Wants His Church to Be'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Alberti Lapsley, Jr.'
date: 1947-06-16
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
- 'Pastoral Theology'
- 'Missions (General)'
- 'Sermons'
scriptures:
- 'Psalms 84'
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Matthew 16'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/lapsley-1947-what-god-wants-his-church-to-be
---

# What God Wants His Church to Be

Sermon outlining what God wants His church to be: beautiful, ministering, evangelistic/missionary, redeemed, and victorious. Draws on Psalm 84 and New Testament writers.

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