I disagree with your comment: “The ‘church’ is NOT the “Body of Christ.”
The Church is the body of Christ. it is specifically stated in the Bible.
He is the head of the body, the church.* COLOSSIANS
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If one rejects Christ’s Church, they reject Christ.
“Anyone who rejects you rejects me.” And how can one wish to love Christ without loving the Church, if the finest witness to Christ is that of St. Paul: “Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself for her”?
The unity of Christ and the Church, head and members of one Body, also implies the distinction of the two within a personal relationship. This aspect is often expressed by the image of bridegroom and bride. The theme of Christ as Bridegroom of the Church was prepared for by the prophets and announced by John the Baptist. The Lord referred to himself as the “bridegroom.” The Apostle speaks of the whole Church and of each of the faithful, members of his Body, as a bride “betrothed” to Christ the Lord so as to become but one spirit with him. The Church is the spotless bride of the spotless Lamb. “Christ loved the Church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her.” He has joined her with himself in an everlasting covenant and never stops caring for her as for his own body:
This is the whole Christ, head and body, one formed from many . . . whether the head or members speak, it is Christ who speaks. He speaks in his role as the head (ex persona capitis) and in his role as body (ex persona corporis). What does this mean? “The two will become one flesh. This is a great mystery, and I am applying it to Christ and the Church.” And the Lord himself says in the Gospel: “So they are no longer two, but one flesh.” They are, in fact, two different persons, yet they are one in the conjugal union, . . . as head, he calls himself the bridegroom, as body, he calls himself “bride” (CCC 796).
Christ in Us.* 24Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking* in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of his body, which is the church, 25of which I am a minister in accordance with God’s stewardship given to me to bring to completion for you the word of God, 26the mystery hidden from ages and from generations past. But now it has been manifested to his holy ones,m 27to whom God chose to make known the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; it is Christ in you, the hope for glory.n 28It is he whom we proclaim, admonishing everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone perfect in Christ.o 29For this I labor and struggle, in accord with the exercise of his power working within me.p COLOSSIANS 1
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Sorry, but no, there is no church mentioned in the Bible.
The church is a human creation inspired by the adversary.
The body is the kehillah, poorly translated into the Greek, and even more poorly translated from Greek to english.
The kehillah has existed for 6000 years, and is an invisible body, discernable only by their keeping of the ancient covenant delivered at the first Shavuot at Sinai.
If you are of the church, you cannot be of yeshua.
The ‘church’ rejects Yehova’s commandments, and lives by their own man made creeds and other “inherited lies wherein there is no profit.”
This ‘church’ is dedicated to the defeat of Yehova’s covenant.
You mix apples and oranges when you try to link the bride of Yeshua with a man made church. Nothing the apostles spoke has anything to do with any ‘church.’
The Kehillah keeps Torah,and the church keeps the commandments of men, much as the Pharisees kept their own man made laws that they egregiously called “the Law of Moses.”
Nothing that this ‘church’ does is in any way related to the commandments of Yehova.