The True Bible Church
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Many
people have truly come to know Christ as Savior after having been
sincere, religious “church members” for years. Though faithful
supporters of some earthly church organization they had never
experienced the truth of II Cor. 5:17: “If any man be in Christ he is a
new creation.” It is possible to be a member in good standing of some
church organization, yet be outside of the one true Church of which the
Bible speaks.
This
is because the true Bible Church is not an organization but a living
organism, a spiritual body, with a living Head and living members. Again
and again St. Paul, by divine inspiration, calls the Church, the Body
of Christ. He says: “We being many, are one Body in Christ…” (Rom.
12:5). “Ye are the Body of Christ, and members in particular” (I Cor.
12:27). “We are members of His Body” (Eph. 5:30).
How
do we become members of this true Bible Church, the Body of Christ?
First, we must acknowledge ourselves to be sinners in God’s sight, for
Ephesians 2 relates how Christ died for sinful men that He might
“reconcile” them to God “in one Body” by the cross (Ver. 16). Thus, when
believing sinners are reconciled to God by faith in Christ, they are
regenerated, given a new life, by the Spirit, and by the Spirit are
baptized into the Church, the Body of Christ.
“Not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His
mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the
Holy Spirit” (Titus 3:5).
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body” (I Cor. 12:13).
Every
one of us should ask himself: “Have I been baptized by the Spirit into
the Body of Christ?” If not, trust Christ as your Savior and become a
member of the one true Bible Church. Then associate yourself with some
local assembly where Christ is honored and the Bible taught, “rightly
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