What is a church? What is not a church? What is church for? What is church not for? Why have church? How do you justify having church? What is its reason for existence? What is its settled determination, the ultimate justification for being? These are the kinds of questions which, when answered, lead to understanding about the purpose of church. Such understanding is indispensable for a church to maximize its ministries. A church which lives and works on purpose is much more likely to