Welcome to Truth for Life.

The New Series is a new series by asking who or what is the church.

It seems like a pretty simple, straightforward question, but there's more to the answer

than you might think.

Let's join Alistair as he addresses basic biblical truth regarding the nature of the church.

Father, we are glad of the privilege of singing your praise and now we're expectant as we

take our Bibles and open them.

That in these precious moments we will hear your voice.

This is the end to which we pray and this is our earnest expectation.

For far beyond the voice of a mere man we may know ourselves to be under the sound of

your truth by your spirit through the pages of your holy scriptures for Jesus' sake.

Amen.

Can I invite you then to turn with me once more to Ephesians chapter 2?

And if you like the title of our study this morning is simply who or what is the church?

Who or what is the church?

Man and women may say of course that that is our rather esoteric area of study, something

that we can perhaps leave well alone.

There are more practical and pressing issues given the nature of each of our lives today.

But I think we will discover as we go along that no matter whether we begin from that

mindset we will discover just how vitally relevant and crucial it is at this point of

the 21st century.

There is no question that the very word church conjures up all kinds of things in the minds

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