Images of the Church

I'm going to post a few simple statements that describe the church. The Bible uses metaphors to talk about and describe the church. The first one to consider is found throughout the New Testament but is hinted at in the Old Testament a lot (that's for another post).

Paul writes to the Corinthians

'Now you are the body of Christ' (1 Cor 12:27)

So one of the images of the church is of a body but specifically the body of Christ.