The Institution of the Church

In the last article, we discussed the Church of Christ as it is an organism, the body of Christ, holy in Him. But now we have to come down from those lofty heights of faith wherein we saw the Church as inexpressibly beautiful, radiat­ing with the beauty of God’s grace as a clear brilliant diamond. We behold the Church as organism by faith alone. She is what Scripture declares her to be in Christ — holy, obedient, and faithful, enduring all things in the hope of glory. But as such, the Church is...