church of Christ is the entire world. There are local boundaries for the proclamation of each individual church, but the one church has no boundaries around it. The churches of the World Alliance have joined together in order to express their claim, or rather the claim of our Lord, on the entire world. They understand the task of the church as that of making the claim of Christ audible to the entire world. This includes the rejection of the idea that there are God-willed characteristics of life that