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It is not right to say because the church has this aspect that therefore it doesn't have another aspect.#1 We are CALLED OUT ASSEMBLE and that is what EKKLESIA and is not a so-called Church .
#2The BODY OF CHRIST began when the Holy Spirit PLACES // BAPTISMA into his Death , Rom 6:4 and Col 2:12 uses the same Greek word BAPTISMA in Col 2:12 where it says Having been BURIED together with Him in the BAPTISMA , means that the BAPTISMA IS THE HOLY SPIRIT .
We may say that the manifestation of the Body of Christ is deficient and weak, not too healthy in too many gatherings of Christians.
That is because too many are not deeply in the partaking of this death with Christ.
We may spend too much time quite living in the old man. So the expression of the Body is not striking.
Take the church in Corinth for example. They had many problems of the immature Christians.
They were a typical local church.
But Paul did not then tell them they were not the Body of Christ. On the contrary he told them they WERE.
And they should grow in Christ so a healthy manifestation of this Body would practically emmerge.
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