The word church here is Strong's 1577, ecclesia, which means a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation, an assembly, church. A building is missing from that definition. When Jesus says that the church will be built upon Him, the chief cornerstone, and it is an assembly and congregation of followers that He has claimed ownership, it is His, not man's, not a group of people, not an institution or denomination of men, not a tradition, not an organization, and not a physical building. It is His. He builds it, sustains it, and leads it. We can see here that Jesus is also, and to no surprise, in the church. This is one of the reasons why when we get baptized, we are not baptized into any denomination of men, but into the Body of Christ through or by the means of the Holy Spirit. Let us go back to this definition of the church being an assembly of believers. By standard dictionary definitions, we understand that this is what makes up a church or what a church is comprised of. We just read in I Corinthians 10:4 that the Israelites were a type of this as they passed through the Red Sea as a group being baptized, sharing in the same spiritual food and drink, which of course was Christ. Now congregation here is translated in the Greek as ecclesia, assembly, or church. And there are many more that refer to the children of Israel as the assembly of God. So we see a New Testament example as God calls people into His church, that they come together, they assemble in doctrine and fellowship. The writer of Hebrews reiterates this in Hebrews 10:25 by telling them to not forsake the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but to exhort one another, and so much more as you see the Day approaching. To recap this section, we have seen that the church is an assembly of those who have been called and believe. We have also seen that Christ claims the church as His, that He built it. That He will build it, sustain it, and lead it. In order to be part of His church, this assembly of His people, we must be called by God. This is an invitation-only event, as we might hear in the secular world, something that, you know, one cannot simply just show up for. It is not free and you cannot even purchase it with the greatest of riches. No, this is only by invitation from God. Mr. Armstrong even stated this in chapter 6 of Mystery of the Ages, that we are draftees, not volunteers. These verses basically show the process in action. God calls and reveals Himself to us and how corrupt we are and we respond by believing and doing, believing in God and His Word, repenting and being baptized that we might receive the gift of His Holy Spirit. So we have seen the church is made up of those who have been called by God and believe in Him and then commit their lives to Him by repenting, being baptized, and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. As Gary Petty has said previously, and I am paraphrasing, the church is full of sick people, and we are all trying to get better. And we should keep that in mind as we look across the assembly. We are all trying to get better. When we have established that Christ is the Head of the church, this means that He also has established the requirements for attendance and worship. He tells us what makes up His church, the assembly of called-out people. He tells us how we are to worship God the Father and even tells us when and where. The church, then, is the group of people being called by God right now to be set apart from the world, to repent, be baptized, and live a life according to His instructions that we find in the Bible. The church is a training ground. Christ's church provides the place, the instruction, and the people necessary to help us grow into His image and likeness to learn to be like Him, and that is hopefully what we want to do. The church is a congregation, an assembly of people that are called by God to know and understand who God is and what Christ has and is accomplish