Friday, November 29, 2013

AC 8788 - Who makes the church?

AC 8788
. . . in order that there may be a church,
there must be with the person of the church
faith in the Lord,
and also love to Him,
and likewise love toward the neighbor.
These make the church.

[2] The church is represented
when the person makes worship consist in external things,
but in such as correspond to heavenly things.
The internal things are represented by external ones,
and the internal things are open in heaven,
with which there is consequent conjunction.

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