* The Church meets together locally, under various names and denominations, for the
purpose of worship, praise, fellowship, and the teaching and preaching of God’s
Word: with its governing body of Pastors, Elders, Deacons, etc.

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EPHESIANS 5:23   For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the
  Church: and is Savior of the body.

COLOSSIANS 2:19   And he is head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the
  firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

2 CORINTHIANS 11:2   For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I espoused
  you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

ACTS 2:47   Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to
  the Church daily such as should be saved.

PHILIPPIANS 1:1   Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in
  Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons.

HEBREW 10:25   Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of
  some is; but exhorting one another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching.

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