What do I say to the Mormon missionaries at my front door? That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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listeners. This is Chet. I was following up from my question. I think I understand the word church

would be the English translation of the original language, the Greek, which would have been the ecclesia or the called out

assembly. When you said the church was a growing organism. In other words, in Matthew's writing,

the word church wouldn't have been used, but he would spoke of the people of God or God's

called out a stimuli, which would have been the instructions that they received from Jesus when he was teaching them.

And I'll just make sure I understood what you would convey.

God bless you.

Yeah. Well, I love talking about the church, and in Scripture, the Bible uses a number of different pictures for the gathered assembly, both the sort of

organic metaphor of a body. So you think of a living organism, but also, you know, the structural

metaphor of a temple. And I think both of these convey something a little bit different, but even

the temple we're told

as a church in first peter is made up of living stones living and breathing stones and we are

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