What is the Church?
Think Deeper
“We don’t go to church, we ARE the church.”
Well, kind of. On this episode, we discussed whether the church is the people who go there, the institution, or something in between.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introducing the question06:58 - Is the church just the people?
11:32 - “It’s not an organization, it’s an organism” - true or false?
16:25 - The church requires purpose
31:25 - The community church to Catholic church pendulum
36:54 - The house church question
42:22 - When church leadership goes wrong, and when to leave a church
50:04 - When the members go wrong, and what leadership should do