The Importance of the Church
Synopsis On the last pages of your Bible, in what seems to be the final book of Scripture we will ever receive before the coming of the Lord to bring the final redemption of the creation, in the final pages of Revelation, we are treated to a description of a city. That city, the new Jerusalem, represents the Church. The big reveal at the end of mysteries is the redeemed people of God, and that is fitting for what the Church is. The Church is the most important institution in creation. By the Church, I do not mean the Roman Catholic Church or the Eastern Orthodox Church. There is no man defined institution that encompasses the entirety of the divinely defined institution. The basis for its existence is neither a legal document nor an agreement among men. The Church’s charter is heavenly and it is the centerpiece of creation. ...