- where all have received His Spirit, speaking in tongues?
(Acts 2, 10:44-48; 1 Corinthians 12:13)
Or some other sort of church?
(please say how it differs)
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ. Mt 16:18-20
If I was in that "church", ecclesia is the proper name, I would have to be Jewish and part of the Covenant, which I am not. I am a Gentile, a stranger to the covenant promises of the Patriarchs, an alien, apart from God.
Wherefore remember, that ye [being] in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us];
Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace;
And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby Eph 2:11-16
I am sorry, but being a member of the Body of Christ sure beats being part of the church on earth that Christ will come again to establish for a thousand years. Don't need it, don't want it, and can't have it anyway. It's out of my control.
fivesense