church!” does not mean “We meet occasionally,” nor “We cooperate in a common project”; rather, it means basically, “Each of us in his or her own being is qualified by others.” Whoever says less than this in saying “We are the church!” is saying too little, and the cry of protest “We are the church!” has degenerated into an ideological slogan. The following study is concerned with placing this cry of protest of the Free Churches—“We are the church”—into a trinitarian framework and with elevating it