What Is the Church: Why It Still Matters
Publisher:
, 2023
Overview
What is the church? And why does it exist? These are essential questions for those who seek to follow Jesus in community.
David Fitch delves into the origins of the church, exploring the identity and calling of the body of Christ in scripture and church history. Learn about the Christian practices that shape the church and how our understandings of church might change in light of the life of the church through the centuries. At a time when the church in the US is losing credibility and cultural privilege, Fitch offers a model for thriving as God’s people in our own time and place.
- Delves into the origins of the church.
- Explores the identity and calling of the body of Christ in scripture.
- Offers a model for thriving as God’s people in our own time and place.
- Lesson 1: The Current State of the Church
- Lesson 2: What Is the Church?
- Lesson 3: Practical Implications
- Lesson 4: The Practices
- Lesson 5: Why Church?
- Lesson 6: The Church’s Role in His Mission
- Lesson 7: The How Question
- Lesson 8: What Kind of Church Will We Be?