This is what you experience through your senses—what you see and hear when you visit a church—its skin or outward expression of itself. This outward expression consists of the church’s physical presence: its facilities, parking lot, grounds, and so forth. It also includes such things as the language or languages you hear spoken (English, Spanish, or Asian), clothing (formal or casual), symbols (the cross), rituals (the public reading of Scripture), ordinances (baptism or the taking of communion), music (traditional or contemporary), even technology (high- or low-tech). And these are also the
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