Go Back to the Book

Many of us find our church home for different reasons — it’s the one our parents went to, it has great programs, or it just feels welcoming. But have you ever paused to ask a more fundamental question: Does my church align with the one I read about in the Bible?

In a world with countless denominations and traditions, it’s an important question. The New Testament speaks of one church, the body of all saved people with Christ as the head (Eph. 4:4, Col. 1:18). Local congregations, then, are called to be expressions of that one church. The only way to know if we're on the right track is to do what God’s people have always done when they’ve drifted: go back to the book and rediscover the original pattern.