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By David J Engelsma

a few professing Christians deny the need of church club. Others subscribe to a church for unsubstantial purposes or go away a church for trivial, usually egocentric purposes. Many stay participants of apostatizing church buildings due to family members or conventional ties. a few Christians locate themselves in components or international locations the place no actual church exists or could be shaped. They ask, occasionally in soreness, “What needs to we do?”

Seemingly forgotten at the present time is the fact that Jesus Christ institutes his catholic church in geared up congregations which are in actual fact pointed out through goal marks. those are real church buildings, in contrast from fake and apostatizing churches.

In the shape of letters to an inquiring (though now not consistently appreciative) eu viewers, this publication addresses the problem of church club within the twenty-first century. This guideline is acceptable to all believers and is predicated on Scripture, the Belgic Confession, and the real, yet little recognized, controversy of John Calvin with the Nicodemites.

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