AC 6637 - the activity that makes the church

AC6637
As Israel represents the good of truth, or spiritual good,
and his sons represent spiritual truths in the natural,
therefore the sons of Israel represent the church;
for the church is the church
from spiritual good and from the derivative truths.

He who is not in spiritual good, that is, in the good of charity,
and in spiritual truths, that is, in the truth of faith,
is not of the church, in spite of his having been born with in it.

For the whole heavenly kingdom of the Lord
is in the good of love and of faith;
and unless the church is in the like, it cannot be the church,
because it is not conjoined with heaven,
for the church is the Lord's kingdom on earth.

[2] Its being called the church is not from the fact that the Word is there,
and that there are doctrinal things therefrom,
nor from the fact that the Lord is known there,
and that the sacraments are there;
but it is the church from the fact that men live according to the Word,
or according to doctrine from the Word,
and so that the doctrine is the rule of life....

Be it further known that every one who lives in the good of charity and of faith
is a church and kingdom of the Lord,
and from this is called a temple, and also a house, of God.