Main Street Presbyterian Church

A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation or community that meets in a particular location. Many are formally organized, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, are served by clergy or lay leaders, and, in nations where this is permissible, often seek non-profit corporate status.

What is the church? The church consists of God's people. It is the assembly of believers in Jesus Christ. The physical buildings facilitate the fellowship, worship, and ministry of God's people, but it is not the church.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholic ecclesiology professes the Catholic Church to be the "sole Church of Christ" - i.e., the one true church defined as "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" in the Four Marks of the Church in the Nicene Creed.

In our modern English Bibles, the word church is supposedly translated from the Greek word ekklesia which simply means: people assembled.Secondly, in Christian use, the word means the Lord's Assembly or, all those who have been called out by God and joined together (assembled) in His family; the body of Christ.

1 : a building for public and especially Christian worship. 2 : the clergy or officialdom of a religious body the word church 2026 is put for the persons that are ordained for the ministry of the Gospel, that is to say, the clergy J. Ayliffe. 3 often capitalized : a body or organization of religious believers: such as.

We Are Church is a movement that advocates changing the teachings and the structures of responsibility and authority of the Catholic Church.

Old English cirice, circe "place of assemblage set aside for Christian worship; the body of Christian believers, Christians collectively; ecclesiastical authority or power," from Proto-Germanic kirika (source also of Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German

Catholic Church In Catholic ecclesiology, Jesus Christ is called the invisible Head or the Heavenly Head, while the Pope is called the visible Head or the Earthly Head. Therefore, the Pope is often called the Vicar of Christ.

A church (or local church) is a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location. Many are formally organized, with constitutions and by-laws, maintain offices, are served by clergy or lay leaders, and, in nations where this is permissible, often seek non-profit corporate status.