What Is the Church?
What Is the Church?Chapter 6 — The Church and Our Hope
Lesson 41: What Is the Church?The Church is the family of everyone who believes in Jesus.
Explanation
The Church is not a building, but God’s people gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus. It is the family of believers, the body of Christ, and the place where God works through His Word, prayer, fellowship, and service.
That means the Christian life is not a road we walk alone; God has placed us in a people.
Bible story
In Acts 2, after the Holy Spirit came down, the believers kept on in the apostles’ teaching, in fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. They did not live apart from one another, but as a new people gathered around Christ.
Remember
- The truth: The Church is the family of everyone who believes in the Lord Jesus.
- The Church is God’s people, not just the place we go on Sunday.
- Christ loves His Church and makes believers grow in the midst of it.
Ephesians 2:19
“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;”
Tap to open the verse in Scripture and mark it as read.
- Love the Church, and do not treat it as something unimportant.
- Take part with an attentive heart, not only with your body.
- Pray for your church, and look for ways to be a blessing in it.
1. What is the Church?
2. In the Church we are…
3. Who belongs to the Church?
4. Why is the Church a family?