The Visible Church and Ordinances

#Overview

This subarticle keeps the visible church close to the church-order side of the site and helps connect doctrine to ordinary church life.

The visible church as the ordinary sphere of ministry, membership, and ordinances.

#Key topics

• Visible church
• Membership
• Ordinances

These topics mark the doctrinal and navigational center of the page 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.
• [2] OPC Westminster Confession of Faith - Public full-text host used as an accessible article reference.

#Rights note

Summary-first treatment only. ²