The Catholicity of the Church

It is easy to find references that explicitly say that there is one church, and that this church is holy, but the word "catholic" is not found in Scripture. The term means "universal in extent" or "throughout the whole," and is used to describe the church as a body of believers that is universal in extent, gathered throughout the whole human race out of all the nations of the world. The term is found in the titles that have been given to the epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude. These are...