Building Christ's Church

 
    When Christ was at last presented to this world in the flesh, He set into motion a mechanism whereby His Word and His work could be promulgated to the world. What He left at the time of His death was a perfected mechanism. It cried to the world to believe in unseen things. It called the sinful of the world to repentance. It taught that baptism was the covenant which we made as a response to show our repentance, and thus bound its members together, with the common goal of being like Him.

Few things in this world though, when left to themselves, will better their situation. Consider the gardens of the field. Carefully cultivated, prepared, planted, fertilized, and then left untended.

How many untended years does it take for weeds, bugs, and weather to take their toll?
Christ cultivated, prepared, planted, fertilized, and then left it not untended, but tended sometimes by poor gardeners. Such has been the history of man's influence on the Church of Jesus Christ, left to us in its perfect form.
Calvin, Luther, and others who saw that corruption took action. They saw the condition of Christ's Church, and are called great reformers because they wanted that perfected mechanism of ministry back. They sought to re-constitute it.

    What you see in the picture are the identifying traits of that perfect mechanism, His Church. Wouldn't it be great if when Christ returns to this earth, He finds it cultivated, prepared, planted, fertilized, and ready to yield up it's harvest?
The accumulated accounts of scripture regarding His Church are presented here. Click the area of interest, and read the Word as it relates to His identifiable and functioning Church.