What is a Church?

We are, of course, are a ministry of All Saints (a church, not a para-church ministry). So, what does that mean? Why is All Saints considered a church while Young Life is not? Couldn't we just declare a group of us a "church?" After all, we are all members of the body of Christ of THE Church.

Well, Taylor's old RUF Campus Minister, Rev. Brian Habig, wrote a book called The Enduring Community with another Campus Minister named Rev. Les Newsom. In it, they talked for a long time about the distinguishing features of The Church (meaning the global body of Christ) and the local church (of which you belong). Here is an excerpt from the book on the "Marks of a Church.*"


What do you think?

*The .pdf has two articles in it. The first article is The Enduring Community.