Today we're discussing part 10 in our 12-week Systematic Theology series with hosts Bryan Dwyer and Ross Anderson. Our focus today is on the Church. The church is neither a building nor an organization. It is a people, the community of all those who stand in a saving relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

The New Testament Greek word for “church” is ekklesia, which means “the assembly of those called out” - called out by the proclamation of the gospel to gather around Christ. This church exists in two aspects. The visible or local church takes shape in many forms in specific places and cultures (Acts 13:1; Acts 15:41; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Acts 9:31). Yet even in its vast diversity, Jesus’ church is one. The invisible or universal church is the body of all believers everywhere and through all time (Hebrews 12:22-23). No single visible expression of the church encompasses the universal whole.

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