Who Needs the Church? Why We Need the Church (and Why the Church Needs Us) Phil Newton this book will help Christians

this book will help Christians recover the practical importance of the Lord’s Supper as both a sign and a meal of the new covenant blessings God has bestowed on believers in Christ

Edwards (1703–1758) was also a pastor

sentimentalized version we commonly encounter today is far from the biblical depiction of God’s love

in one way or another

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Who Needs the Church? Why We Need the Church (and Why the Church Needs Us) Phil Newton this book will help ChristiansIt seems that increasing numbers of professing Christians in the West do not attend church. Church, to many, has become a place to go when it is convenient, to have ones needs met. Terry L. Johnson asks whether our individualistic, dismissive attitude to the gathering of the local church can be squared with that of the New Testament. Examining what the Bible has to say about the church, Johnson shows why the local body of believers is an essential