What is church?

The church is not a building or an event. It is the people who belong to Jesus, gathered into local congregations to worship God, learn the Scriptures, share the Lord's Supper, care for one another and make disciples (Acts 2:42-47). The New Testament calls the church the body of Christ and the family of God, and it does not picture a follower of Jesus going it alone.

These answers address what the church is for, how it is led, what it does when it gathers, and what to do when church life gets hard.