Chapter 25: Of the Church

#Overview

This chapter should connect naturally to membership, courts, and church-order pages in the wider site.

The visible church and its place in the life of Christ's people.

#The visible church

This chapter gives the wiki a carefully ordered place for the visible church, its ordinances, and Christ's headship.

#Purity and ordinances

The article should help readers see the church as a real, ordered body rather than a vague spiritual idea.

#Study note

Use the child pages to separate catholicity, visibility, and practical church order.

#Key topics

• Church
• Membership
• Unity
• Visibility

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page ¹.

#Related pages

• The Catholic or Universal Church — The church as Christ's one body, gathered across all times and places.
• The Visible Church and Ordinances — The visible church as the ordinary sphere of ministry, membership, and ordinances.
• Purity, Mixture, and Christ's Headship — How the church may be more or less pure, and why Christ alone remains its head.

Use these child pages to move from the overview into narrower study units ¹.

#The visible church and Christ's headship

This chapter distinguishes the catholic church from the visible church and keeps Christ's headship central as the wiki moves into membership and ordinances ¹.

#Ordinances and purity

The child pages help the reader read the church as an ordered community rather than as an abstract idea.

#Study note

This page is a navigation anchor for ecclesiology, membership, and church-order topics elsewhere in the site.

#Sources

• [1] RPCNA convictions - Official constitutional landing page.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²