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the Holy Catholic Church (the Body of Christ (4 marks of the church (The…

- - - - Goods
      - the Sacrament
    - - Adults
      - Children
- - - - In Christ = belonging to Christ
  - - - 1 Pet 2:9
  - - - Creed: "the church" not "churches"
      - All Christian churches are based and founded on the one and only foundation of Jesus Christ
        
        Col 1:18
        
        Harmony does not mean uniformity
      - Denomination
        
        Arminianism v. Calvinism
        
        Church history, esp. in Korea
        
        What is in common is far more precious and important than what divides them.
        
        Things that are not essential to the gospel
        
        Eph 4:4-6
      - Christians are meant to be part of a community
    - - The church is universal
      - We are affirming that its message is valid and relevant to every age and every situation. It is not as if there was one church with a message suited to the needs of the second century and another with a message suited to the needs of the twentieth - it is the same church, throughout the ages and across the world, which seeks to apply the same gospel in any situation it may happen to meet. Catholic is an affirmation of the universal validity and relevance of the gospel.
      - Reletivism + Post-moderninsm
        
        The feminist who was shocked by the cultural mass rape
    - - The faith and the tasks of the apostles have become ours.
      - Phil 1:28
- - - - One of the roles of the church is to support its members
      - κοινωνια has the basic meaning of sharing
      - God's gifts are given for the building up, or edification, of the Christian community
        
        1 Cor 14:3-5
      - Mutual commitment within the Christian fellowship
      - To believe in the fellowship of saints is to be committed to the practical consequences of this fellowship
      - God called people to be holy
        
        The church is like a hospital. It is full of sick people who are desperately hoping to be cured.
        
        Saints are set apart from the world: consecration
        
        We are righteous on account of God's having clothed us with his righteousness - but inside we are still sinners
        
        Already but not yet
  - - - We believe in a holy God who has called us as individuals into a community, within which his work of renewal and regeneration can take place