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What is the Church to be? Why do we exist? Sometimes such basic questions are not easily answered. But such questions are clearly answered in God’s Word. He has called the Church into being for a reason, and though God’s purposes for the church can be described Biblically in different ways, one that I believe accurately summarizes the Biblical data is threefold: Exaltation, Evangelism, and Edification. Each local church should both determine her future and measure her present activities, ministries, goals and plans in light of what God has called her to accomplish.
Exaltation
Exaltation is proclaiming, by both word and deed, the excellencies of Him who has called us out of darkness into His marvelous light (1...

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, have you believed? Blessed are they who did not see, and yet believed” (John 20:29).
Blessed! That describes you and me and everyone throughout this world who has truly believed in Jesus Christ since His ascension into heaven. We “did not see” Jesus after He was raised from the dead, as His apostles did, yet we believed. 
A couple of verses after these words of the resurrected Jesus to Thomas, one of the Twelve, John makes clear in what sense we are “blessed” when we have believed without seeing. John wrote: “But these have been written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing you may have life in His name” (John 20:31, emphasis...