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The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. And I'm still, Whoa.

On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be discussing the subject of the church,

and we'll talk about the definition, the form, and the scope of the church and what we mean when we use

that in different contexts. Before we get into the subject, just a brief bit of housekeeping,

this is the end of the calendar year, almost the end of 2023 as we're recording this. So

Christmas is in a couple weeks. The church calendar just began a couple weeks ago with the

Advent of Advent, because that's what that word means. So we decided that next week we're going to be

doing the church calendar. And this week we thought that before getting into the details of the

blessing of the calendar that the church has given us throughout history, we should probably define

what church means first.

So we are going to do that now, and then next week we'll have the calendar.

These will probably both be shorter episodes, kind of give you guys a little bit of a break as we get into the Christmas season.

And we're going to be taking two weeks off because the following week is going to be Kwanza,

where we normally record, and I don't know, wrong Kwanza. We didn't want to, we didn't want to record during Christmas week and because when

we record we pretty much immediately began worrying about the following recording. We're going to take

the next week off just so I can actually, we can both have a break kind of the week of Christmas

So after next week the following recording that we release will be on the 10th of January

So just give you heads up there will be a two-week break you can go back and listen to previous episodes if you feel like there's good stuff back there

Today as we're discussing church I want to give you just a very brief example in three

sentences that probably apply to virtually everyone listening.

You were baptized into the church.

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