Identifying the Church of the Lord

Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build my

church" (Matt. 16:18). The subject of the church

is as old as the teaching

of the Lord Jesus and His

apostles. But, as was true

when God gave laws and

rules to Israel, they were

followed: "Even as Moses is warned of God

when he is about to make the tabernacle: for,

See, saith he, that thou make all things

according to the pattern that was showed thee

in the mount" (Heb. 8:5). Let's find, then, those

indentifying marks of the Lord's church. ---read the rest of the story from The Gospel Minutes (pfd file)