Front matter
What Is the Church?
Crucial Questions
Crucial Questions booklets provide a quick introduction to definitive Christian truths. This expanding collection includes titles such as:
Who Is Jesus?
Can I Trust the Bible?
Does Prayer Change Things?
Can I Know God's Will?
How Should I Live in This World?
What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?
Can I Be Sure I'm Saved?
What Is Faith?
What Can I Do with My Guilt?
What Is the Trinity?
T O B R O W S E T H E R E S T O F T H E S E R I E S ,
P L E A S E V I S I T: R E F O R M A T I O N T R U S T. C O M / C Q
What Is the Church?
What Is the Church? © 2013 by R.C. Sproul
Published by Reformation Trust Publishing a division of Ligonier Ministries 421 Ligonier Court, Sanford, FL 32771 Ligonier.org ReformationTrust.com
Printed in China RR Donnelley 0001018 First edition, sixth printing
ISBN 978-1-64289-052-5 (Paperback) ISBN 978-1-64289-080-8 (ePub) ISBN 978-1-64289-108-9 (Kindle)
Cover design: Ligonier Creative Interior typeset: Katherine Lloyd, The DESK
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sproul, R.C. (Robert Charles), 1939-2017 What is the church? / by R.C. Sproul. pages cm. -- (The crucial questions series ; No. 17) ISBN 978-1-56769-329-4 1. Church. I. Title. BV600.3.S69 2013 262--dc23 2013015788
Contents
One The Church Is One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Two United in the Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Three Doctrine Divides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Four Visible and Invisible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Five The Church Is Holy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Six The Church Is Universal . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Seven Founded on the Apostles . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Eight Servants of the Lord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Nine The Marks of a True Church . . . . . . . . . . 61