What is the Church?

Philip Gulley – What is the Church?

Posted by on June 1, 2011 at 6:31 am

“Jesus did none of the things essential to forming a viable institution.  Some may argue that Jesus wasn’t negligent, that he was simply confident in the Holy Spirit’s ability to guide and grow the fledgling church.  But Jesus’s cautionary, even hostile, language about religious institutions makes such a claim doubtful, if not incredible.  A fair [...]

Philip Gulley — What is the Church?

Posted by on January 26, 2011 at 3:35 am

“There are only two passages in one gospel (Matthew 16:18 and 18:17) where Jesus mentions the church, and even those references are dubious.  Many scholars suspect the Matthean verses were not original to Jesus but were written back into the text by persons hoping to bolster their theological and ecclesial positions by placing them in [...]