[ealgeone]

The Church the body of believers in Y’shua (Jesus) as the Son of the Father and as our Savior. It is not a building or a denomination.

The Roman Catholic believes it has to be their organization. However, the church is the ekklesia...the body of believers in Christ, and only Christ, for their salvation.

[af_vet_1981]

However, the church is the ekklesia...the body of believers in Christ, and only Christ, for their salvation.

1. Writing that the church is the ekklesia is redundant; similar to writing "The Christ is the Messiah."
2. The scriptural definition of the church/ekklesia is not quite "the body of believers in Christ, and only Christ, for their salvation." but rather
   
   The church is the assembly that Jesus is building on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with himself as the chief cornerstone.
   
   And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. -- Matt 16:18-20
   
   Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. -- Eph 2:19-22