Positioning of the Church. What is the Role of The Church? – ENGLISH

What is the role of the Church in the modern world? This question was asked of clergy, bishops, laity. Never was the same answer received twice. Here is the table which shows replies to the question:

“WHAT OR WHO IS YOUR INFORMATIONAL SOURCE AND AUTHORITY?”:

Television  65%

Internet 55%

Newspapers 47%

Educational Institutions 20%

Political Parties   18%

Radio  15%

Religious Organizations 5%

The problem is not, what do people believe in, but rather they don’t know WHAT IS THE CHURCH FOR. Some say, it is established to control people, others, that it wants our money and so on. Yet, nobody considers the church as THE INSTITUTION OF MORAL AUTHORITY. And the moral authority of the church is obviously not being communicated very well. 

Positioning of the CHURCH

We cannot say what do we need the church for, if we DON’T KNOW WHAT THE CHURCH IS. Church is a gathering of people in the name of the LORD. For the second question “What do we need it for?” lets refer to the Bible for the explanation . 

First, during Christ’s ministry on earth, God said in Matthew’s Gospel to listen to the words of HIS SON, the Beloved:

…a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, "This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!" Matthew 17:5

Then Christ, as He departed from earth, instructed his followers to go and teach all nations what they had heard from Him:

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Matthew 28:19

We know of this as of The Great Commandment. And it says that Christians are “teachers of the Word”, and Church is a place for STUDING THE WORD. You say, "Wait, it is for worshiping God!" Yes, but how do you know how to worship, if you are not reading it from the Bible? Before Christ, there were “teachers of the law”, yet Christ said us to be “teachers of the WORD”. We gather together in the church and learn about God, we meet with Him and worship Him.  We relate HIS WORD to the problems of each generation in their time.