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In this introduction to ecclesiology, respected scholars Brad Harper and Paul Louis Metzger offer a solidly evangelical yet ecumenical survey of the church in mission and doctrine. Combining biblical, historical, and cultural analysis, this comprehensive text explores the church as a Trinitarian, eschatological, worshipping, sacramental, serving, ordered, cultural, and missional community. It...

are its direction and destination? What is its message, including the relation of word to deed? And what is the scope of salvation that it proclaims? The church is God’s people on the move—a community of sojourners destined for the Promised Land. God led the people of Israel out of bondage in Egypt to freedom in Canaan (Exod. 13:21–22). So too, the Lord goes before the church by day and by night as it journeys forward as a witness to God among
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