Why Should I Join a Church?
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What is the primary task that Christ gives to the church? Remember that the chief function of the church, as Calvin said, is to make the invisible church visible.
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In Christian jargon, we tend to use the term witnessing as a synonym for evangelism, but they are not synonyms in the Bible. The generic term is witnessing. One of the sub-meanings of witnessing is “evangelism.” We tend to reverse that in our Christian speech. In other words, there are all kinds of ways by which the church is called to bear witness to the kingdom of God and to the lordship of Christ. One of the most important is clearly the preaching of the gospel, the work of evangelism. That’s a vital form of witness, but when the church ministers to the poor, feeds the hungry, gives water ...more