Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:27-31
The Bible defines the church—the sacred and called-out assembly of those who have been saved by the blood of Jesus—as ‘the body of Christ’. And the Bible does not mean to use that phrase in a merely ‘sentimental’ sort of way. It means for us to take it as a proposition of definitional fact. It means that whatever else the church may be with its faults and failings on earth, it is truly, genuinely, authentically the body of Christ on earth.
