to take an intelligent interest in these discussions, it behoves us to know something about this New Testament doctrine. But, further, there is a reason which, in a sense, is far more important than all the others put together. I suspect that it is the failure of evangelical people, particularly during the last sixty to seventy years, to take seriously the biblical teaching concerning the nature of the Church, that accounts for most of the problems that we are confronting at the present time. For