people of God in the Reformed definition of the church? The people of God play a passive role. It is their part to receive the word of God rightly and take the sacrament rightly. The clergy carry out the marks of the true church. It is as if the concept of the people of God was overlooked in the desire to distinguish between the true and false church. These observations about the Reformed definition of the church lead to the obvious question: Did the Reformers have an organic or an institutional