"Christ does not call us to join a church, but to submit to a church." - Jonathan Leeman
"The church is not simply another voluntary society, like the Boy Scouts or the Sierra Club. It's an embassy of Christ's kingdom. And kings do not offer suggestions, sell products, or provide resources that people can take or leave." - Michael Horton
It is easy to forget that Christ calls His people to gather together as His body in a local church. Not because Scripture is silent on the matter, but because society is so loud in the contrary.
"You don't have to go to church to be a Christian."
"The church is not a building, it's a group of people."
"I love Jesus, I just don't like the church."
But we are not called only to personal growth, we are called to interpersonal growth and the place we do both is in the context of the local church, belonging to it, submitting to it, serving it and growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior together (2 P 3:18)
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