New City Catechism 48.2
Question 48: What is the church? Answer: God chooses and preserves for himself a community elected for eternal life and united by faith, who love, follow, learn from, and worship God together. God sends out this community to proclaim the gospel and prefigure Christ's kingdom by the quality of their life together and their love for one another. Why hasn't Jesus Christ returned to earth yet? Although we cannot know all the details of God's hidden plan, one thing we can affirm i