fullness of the mystery of God in redemption is disclosed among his people.”2 The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel. Whether it leads to such distortions or results from them, serious departures from the Bible’s teaching about the church normally signify other, more central misunderstandings about the Christian faith.3 This is not to say that all differences in ecclesiology are tantamount to differences over the gospel itself. Honest
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