among those gathered. Here’s how I would summarize: A local church is an assembly of blood-bought, Spirit-filled worshipers who build one another up by God’s Word and affirm one another as citizens of Christ’s kingdom through the ordinances. This means that being a Christian—a worshiper of God—entails identifying with God’s worshiping people. You’ve been adopted into his family. So when you sit down to the dinner table of corporate worship, you don’t do so alone. Since salvation is corporate, worship