what are the ways one can find the true church established by Jesus 2,000 yrs. ago, against which the gates of

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hell shall not prevail!!!!!!!
The Church Is One
John 17:11
Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.
John 17:21
... so that they may all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I in you, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that you sent me.
Eph 4:4 - 5
There is one body and one Spirit just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of us all.
1 Cor 10:17
Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.
John 10:16
(Jesus said) "there shall be one flock, one shepherd."
The Church is Holy
The Church of the apostles was holy. When we say that the Church is holy, we mean among other things that she had the all-holy God as her author.

Eph 5:25 - 27
Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
1 Tim 1:15
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
The Church is Catholic
The third great historic mark, or note, of the one true Church is that this Church is Catholic. Catholic means "universal." It refers as much to the fullness of the faith she possesses as to the undeniable extension in both time and space that has characterized her virtually from the beginning.

Mark 16:15
He said to them, "Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature."
Col 1:5 - 6
The word of the truth ... in the whole world ... is bearing fruit and growing.
The Church is Apostolic
Finally, the Church that issued from the commission of Christ to the apostles was apostolic. Christ founded the Church upon the apostles.

John 6:70
"Did I not choose you, the twelve?" (Jesus) asked them.

Answer 1

that would be the catholic church. the church Jesus himself founded.

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Answer 2

The universal church that Christ established while here on earth, is the people who are true believers, born from the Spirit. There is no building, or organization, that is the church, the word church means, " congregation " which is the people. The Bride of Christ is the universal group of people who were chosen by God before the beginning of time. They are the ones who are sent to the Son by the Father, no one comes to Jesus, unless the Father sends them, and no one comes to the Father except through Jesus.

The Roman Catholic Church was not established until more than One thousand years after Christ. The original group of believers developed into the Universal Congregation, allowing Jews and Gentiles into the group. This is what made them universal, the fact that they excepted other than Jews.

The True Believer has a personal relationship with Jesus, walks in the Spirit of God, and is not a part of any religion. The True Believer is separated from this world, friends with this world is enemies of God. The True Believers give their lives to Jesus, makes sacrificial giving a part of their lives, and follow no rituals. They have been freed from the law and all the rituals of their former religions.

So in closing, there is no religion that fits into the group of believers that are true followers of Jesus. True followers of Jesus are into a personal relationship with Him, and must be born from above. A person must pray for repentance, and be willing to turn their whole life over to Jesus, and ask for the Holy Spirit to come into their lives and fill them so as to empower them to boldly spread the Good News of the Kingdom of God, and His only Son Jesus the Messiah.

God be with you,
Evangelist, William M. Butler
Grace Evangelistic Ministry

Answer 3

It is quite simple. The church is named in the Bible and it still exists today.

Romans 16:16
"Salute one another with an holy kiss. The churches of Christ salute you. "

The church that Christ established, the one that He is the head of, bears his name, the church of Christ.

The congregations of the church of Christ today seek to be Christians only and worship and live according to the scriptures the same way the Apostles and early disciple did.

The church of Christ is not a denomination, unlike the catholic church, which was "founded" many years later.

Read the article below to see why the church of Christ IS the church that was established in 33 AD and IS the church that Christ shed his blood for.

The second article proves that the catholic church is NOT the church that Christ established.

Answer 4

Yes, the Church is all believers in Christ, throughout the world. The church is not a monolithic structure handing down ordinances from on high, it is the people, the saved people, all those who have put their complete and full trust in Christ for salvation. Can you point to any Scripture where the church is described as anything but all the saints, from all times, together forming the body of Christ?
Christ is the "rock" on which the Church was founded, He is the foundation and the head.

Answer 5

Enoch found it. Elijah found it. Jesus taught , practiced it and passed it on to His disciples. The faith once delivered to the saints all but vanished during the third century. When the church compiled the books of the bible they excluded scriptures and included non-scriptures. The Holy Spirit is the One Jesus said would reveal all truth to us. All truth includes which writings were and which were not inspired. Jesus gave us a BIG clue in The Apocryphon of John. Moses writings were not scripture.

Answer 6

The Catholic church is apostate. I believe that the Catholic church is a cult. The church is spiritual which would constitute the universality of it. The gates of hell have prevailed against the Catholic church. Satan has infultrated it. The Catholic church blasphemes the Holy Spirit. It is the richest organization on the planet and uses it's powers to control governments. There are saved people in the Catholic church but the Catholic church itself is a heresy.

Answer 7

Those who believe in Him are part of His body, and that is the church of Christ! In fact, when Jesus was asked how He might prove His divine authority, He answered, “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days.” The Pharisees thought He was referring to the physical temple. Yet it is then written, “…the temple he had spoken of was his body.”

Answer 8

All valid points except for the general apostasy of the church when it became the Roman state religion.

Answer 9

PUKE!!! I am sorry but this preaching finally got to me.