What exactly is a church?

WHAT CONSTITUTES THE CHURCH AS A CHURCH? What shall we say constitutes a local church on earth? The answer which the Bible gives, I think, is simple and straightforward: a local church is constituted by a group of Christians gathering together bearing Christ’s own authority to exercise the power of the keys of binding and loosing. Three things, then, are necessary for a church to be a church: you need Christians, a gathering that bears Christ’s authority, and the exercise of that ...

What does the church mean to me?

What does the church mean to me? Church is about teaching. It’s not about what we think, it’s about what He says. The “church of the living God” is “the pillar and ground of the truth.” (I Timothy 3:15) The church is the group of Jesus’ disciples who teach what to do to follow Him. (Acts 2:42; Matthew 28:18-20) Church is about ...

What is the true church?

Rather, the true church is the family of all those who have faith in Jesus Christ and are born again by the power of the Holy Spirit ( John 3:3 ). The New Testament defines the church in two distinct ways. First, the church comprises all believers.