What is the Church?
Short answer
The Church is the global community of people who trust Jesus, gathered locally to worship, learn, serve, and love one another.
Deeper answer
A local church is where the universal Church becomes tangible. It is imperfect, sometimes messy, and necessary — Christianity is not designed to be a solo pursuit.
From the Bible
Acts 2:42, 46–47
NIV“They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. … Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.”
Hebrews 10:24–25
NIV“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another — and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
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