Faith Matters Class Asks, “What is the Church?”

By Don Thorsen 

Having just started September 9, the Faith Matters class for adults will meet on Sunday mornings at 9:30 a.m. in Mont Vista 1 & 2. The next topic of study is “What is the Church?” Perhaps, more appropriately, the question that should be asked is, “Who is the Church?” This is because we who are Christians constitute the church. Thus, in class, we will study what the Bible says about how Christians should live together as the “body” of Jesus Christ. We can often explain what it means to live as a Christian individually, but we cannot explain what it means to live as Christians collectively. According to the Bible, the church serves to build up Christians. In class, we will study how the church builds us up: individually and collectively, in the church and in society.