Four Marks of The True Church

If we wish to locate the church founded by Jesus, we need to locate the one that has the four chief marks or qualities of his church. The church we seek must be One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic.
THE CHURCH IS ONE (Rom. 12:5, 1 Cor. 10:17, 12:13)
Jesus established only one church, not a collection of churches (Lutheran, Baptist, Anglican and so on..) The bible says the church is the bride of Christ (Eph. 5:23-32). Jesus can have but one spouse and that spouse is the Catholic church.

His church also teaches one set of doctrines, which must be the same as those taught by the apostles (Jude 3). This is the unity to which Scripture calls us. (Phil. 1:27, 2:2).

THE CHURCH IS HOLY (Eph. 5:25-27, Rev. 19:7-8).
By his grace Jesus makes the church holy, just as he is holy. That doesn't mean that every member is always holy. Jesus said there would be both good and bad members in the church (John 6:70), and not all members would go to heaven (Matt. 7:21-23).
But the church itself is holy because it is the source of holiness and is the guardian of the special means of grace Jesus established, the Sacraments (Eph. 5:26).
THE CHURCH IS CATHOLIC (Matt. 28:19-20, Rev. 5:9-10)
Jesus church is called 'catholic' ("universal in Greek") because it is a gift to all people. He told his apostles to go and make disciples of "all nations". (Matt. 28:19-20).

For 2,000 years the catholic church has carried out this mission, preaching the good news that Christ died for all men and that he wants all of us to be members of his universal family. (Gal. 3:28).
Nowadays the catholic church is found in every country of the world and is still sending out missionaries "to make disciples of all nations". (Matt. 28:19).

The church Jesus established was known by its common title "The Catholic church" at least as early as the year 107, when Ignatius of Antioch used this title to describe the one church Jesus founded.

THE CHURCH IS APOSTOLIC (Eph. 2:19-20)
Jesus appointed the apostles to be the first leaders of the church, and their successors were to be its future leaders. there has been an unbroken line of Catholic bishops faithfully handing on what the apostles taught the first Christians in Scripture and oral Tradition.
(Tim. 2:2).

eh sorry, not reading your post. The Non-denom board is not a soapbox for preaching other views... or the views of your priest standing behind your shoulder for that matter. Non-non-denom's post questions, get answers, engage in light discussion, not soapbox here.

And btw, there is only one Mark, try reading the second book of the NT.

Oh and btw (again), if you are going to write something, don't plagiarize!!! This is taken directly from catholic dot com It shows you don't even know what you believe. Try reading the bible cover to cover, let scripture interpret scripture. I'm not going to bother debating with your priest! unless he wants to debate directly. Anyone can copy and paste someone else's words.

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