Questions about the Word, the Church and the Ordinances

126. Q. What is a church?
         A. A church is an assembly of baptized believers joined by a covenant of discipline and witness who meet together regularly under the preaching of the Word of God.

(Click through to read scriptural proofs.)

• Matthew 18:20

  For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”

• Acts 2:42

  And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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