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To: metmom

“It’s got to have a name so that people can at least know which church everyone is talking about.”

Exactly!

” Everything else has a name for identification purposes; schools, hospitals, businesses, etc. “

Well, no. The odd collection of anti-Catholic screechers, the few, the ufo believers, the JW’s and others here refuse any identification. Very odd that.

“It’s just a local assembly place where people, believers or not, can meet together for worship and fellowship.”

In a REAL Church it is much more. It is a House of God, and His Son is Present in the Tabernacle. The Sacraments are present, the Priest is available and it is a REAL Church, not just another meeting place - rather a House of God.


528 posted on 01/01/2012 11:11:12 AM PST by narses
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To: narses
In a REAL Church it is much more.

The real church is the body of believers in Christ. It's made of people, not brick and mortar and stone. The building in which they meet may be called a church, for lack of a better term, but that is not the church as God identifies it.

532 posted on 01/01/2012 11:31:36 AM PST by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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