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The Church and Its Members
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Although many people refer to a building when they say the word church, in the Bible, the church refers to the followers of Christ. There is only one church, the body of Christ. There are many congregations, but all follow the same doctrine - the Bible (the word of Christ). According to the Bible, one does not simply join the church. God adds people to His church when they believe, repent, confess, and are baptized into Christ. The church is the body of Christ. Christ is the head, and the individual believers make up the members of His body.
| Ephesians 5:23 |
Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. |
| Ephesians 1:22,23 |
And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. |
| 1 Corinthians 12:12 |
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. |
| Acts 2:38,41,47 |
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.... Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.......And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. |
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