What Is The Church?
- The church is the body the people of God – 1 Pet. 2:9; Acts 2:38; Mark 16:16
- The ones who have hearkened to God’s call to come out of darkness and into the light.
- As Peter said, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;” (1 Pet. 2:9)
- Men and women who believed the good news that God has provided salvation for sinful man through Jesus Christ.
- Men and women who by faith take God at His Word, expressed by their obedience to His divine commands to “repent and be baptized” (Acts 2:38).
- These are the recipients of Christ’s blessings, having received “remission of sins”.
- According to the scripture because they have believed and been baptized, they are the saved. (Mark 16:16).
- The church, then, in the universal sense is the body of believers – all of the saved persons in the world.
What may be more important to learn is what the Church is not! Many today view the church as a mystical body which has no visible organization…