What is the purpose of the church? What is the relationship of the individual Christian to his church?

Sadly, too many Christians in America go "church shopping," when instead the NT says that Christians themselves ARE the church and have a responsibility AS the church: the stand for the Truth of God's Word. 

In today's episode, I consider how the verse I discussed last week, about the Christian's obligation to contend earnestly for the faith, is put into practice in the institution of the local church.