What comes to mind when I say church?

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss.

The church is not a building.

It's not an organization.

It's not an institution.

It's a body of believers in Christ who've been called out of this world and set apart to belong to God, to be God's holy temple, to be God's dwelling place, and to be used for God's holy

purposes.

That's what the church is.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, July 21st, 2015.

Imagine a master craftsman creating something that is one of a kind.

He sets high standards in order to create beauty.

Well, God is a master craftsman, the greatest ever.

He's calling us to be set apart, to be one of a kind.

Here's Nancy to tell us more in a series called The Splendor of Holiness.

I have a longtime friend who's a very godly woman now in her 90s.

I call her Mom J, Mom Johnson. A couple of years ago, when I began

writing a book on holiness, I asked her to pray for me as I wrote. She's one of my praying friends,

and she did pray, but not only did she pray for me, but she decided she really wanted to learn

about this whole subject of holiness herself. So past the age of 90,

she decided to meditate on every scripture reference that she could find related to holiness.

And at one point before she had ever seen a word that I had written of my book, she wrote and

said to me, your book is already at work in my life. She said, I have no words to convey the extreme spiritual

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