There are so many rich family metaphors in the NT. We might be compared to a temple, or a body, or a marriage—but a family is *what we are.* It’s in the very DNA of God’s church.
Yes, but the point I am trying to make is that the church is a family. Jesus intended for His church to become a literal family to one another and be organized as families made up of individual households. That is what the church IS. Those families (churches) are LIKE many things… like a body, a marriage, a temple. Those metaphors are used to clarify aspects of family life.
There are so many rich family metaphors in the NT. We might be compared to a temple, or a body, or a marriage—but a family is *what we are.* It’s in the very DNA of God’s church.
We are His assembly of believers, His bride, His chosen people, the Household of God, His body, His Church.
Yes, but the point I am trying to make is that the church is a family. Jesus intended for His church to become a literal family to one another and be organized as families made up of individual households. That is what the church IS. Those families (churches) are LIKE many things… like a body, a marriage, a temple. Those metaphors are used to clarify aspects of family life.