[Boanarges]

Where two are gathered is called a marriage and when three or more are gathered is called a family, not a church, and Jesus is there in there midst.

Jesus said, “Abide in me, and I in you.”

It is all about the Spirit of Christ abiding in you, and has nothing to with rules, dogma, sacraments, buildings, fonts, holy water, altars, pews, priests, confessionals, catechisms, statues and statutes, rosary beads, crosses, incense, and chalices. That is all noise and distraction.

People would well to just humbly seek the Holy Spirit everyday and avoid all other gobbledeegook.

[Biggirl]

The Church is the body of Christ. End of story.

[annalex]

Family is indeed a model of the church, called Church Domestic. Matthew 18:20 does not necessarily refer to a family, rather, it speaks of any three Christians, and by extension of any number of Christians. The Church as an institution originally consisted of a small circle of apostles and disciples not related by family, and it established dogmas and had sacraments. That a certain Catholic culture, with statues and rosary beads grew out of it merely shows that Christ founded a living Church where the Holy Spirit abides, not a dead one.

[Salvation]

**1.Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them (Matt 18:20) And thus we see that Jesus is present in the gathering we call the Church in a more perfect way than he is in my private prayer, or on some mountaintop. He says, THERE am I in the MIDST of THEM.**

Are you saying that you don't believe the Bible?

[terycarl]

Where two are gathered is called a marriage

think about that....Fred and George are NOT a marriage