Do you think the Church behaves like the body of Christ?

Answer 1

because he provides his spirit to the mass of people who accept him.they then serve as one body ,one mind,one spirit.then they go interact with the world like he did,preaching and teaching using the power of his holy spirit.so even though his body died.his spirit lives on in this body of christ,the church.his work still gets done.

Answer 2

The church is the body of christ, because the New Testament defines it as such, and for no other reason.

Men have totally and abusively destroyed the meaning of the body of christ to other men, but god will not relinqish his word concerning the church.

You who think you know all there is to know about church, do not know god, christ, the body of christ, or the kingdom of heaven. It will be to your destruction and total calamity because of your arrogance and pride. Man cannot and will not understand the mind of god, without the presence of the holy spirit within the man.

Religion is not god. Sunday school is not god. Denomination is definitely not god. God is only found in god, through Jesus Christ. That is his church, and it, and only it will find and know god.

Answer 3

The Church is the community of people that make it up. If you are a member of your church, you are part of the body of the Church. The Church is considered Christ's bride, which is also part of the body of Christ.

Answer 4

A:I really have trouble trying imagine how the body of Christ would behave, such that an analogy could be drawn to the Christian Church as a whole or to any one of its denominations.

Then which Church? The Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church or the Coptic Church? Or perhaps any of the Protestant and Pentecostal Churches?

Would the body of Christ be involved in the sex scandals of the Church? Would Christ be involved in any of the financial scandals that rock the different denominations from time to time? Would Christ have lived in the apparent luxury of many of the Church's senior clergy?

The Church preaches as Christ preached, but so often seems not to practise what it preaches, which hardly draws a fair parallel to the body of Christ.

My answer must be no, I do not think the Church behaves like the body of Christ.

Additional Answers:

As Jesus lived as our perfect example in all things, then it is obvious that the vast majority of Churches in the 'rainbow coalition of Christianity' are far from that example. But this was told beforehand and the Scripture calls the Church 'His little flock' (Luke 12:32) or the Elect (see Mark 13:20-27 as examples).

It is these relatively few in this physical world who walk the walk of Christ and speak His words, empowered by God's Holy Spirit and the Faith of Christ within them. They will be scorned and persecuted beyond the norm but if they hold fast to their ends or the end, whichever comes first, they will meet Christ in the air and become His 'bride' for all eternity.

Answer 5

Mainly because the Scripture says so - in Romans 12.5. "So we, [being] many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another."