The Wednesday Word ~ 11 November, 2026 A.D.

The True Church, Part II

by D G Miles McKee

  

The cry of the New Testament is to, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, (not The Church) and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). We are to entrust our souls to Christ, not to the Church. Never ever do the New Testament apostles direct people to put their confidence in any Church. 

No Church was nailed to the cross, Christ was. Trust Him.

Jesus Christ is always the object of true saving faith. He, not any religious group, is the rock on which we rest with full confidence.

We are to look unto Jesus (not the church) the Author and Finisher of our faith," (Hebrews 12:2). Jesus said, “Come unto ME (not the church) and I (not the church) will give you rest,” (Mathew 11:28).

But where is the True Church and where do we find it?  The True Church is in Jesus Christ alone! All who have trusted Him and His substitutionary work on their behalf are already in that True Church.

Adolph Saphir makes a wise observation saying; “We ask Christ, “Where is the Church?’ he says, “The Church is where I, the Crucified One, am trusted and loved.” We ask Christ, “What is the Church?” Christ says, “My body.” “Why do you persecute Me ---Again, if you ask the Church, “What is the Church?” the Church begins to speak of Christ and points to Him. She says, “We are in Christ. We desire not to be found in ourselves, having our own righteousness, but to be found in Him. He is all in all.” -Adolph Saphir: Christ Crucified: Lecture 3, The Believers View of the Cross 

Since by faith in Christ alone we already are members of the True Church, we don’t have to join somebody’s notion of the same to get right with God. We already are “in Christ”. In Him we are members of the one True Church, therefore, to trust in membership of some earthly organization, no matter how ancient, is to desert and abandon the gospel.

The ‘True Church’ doctrine and the gospel are diametrically opposed to each other. However, they both offer the same thing ---acceptance with God. So which position is correct? They both can’t be true. Either acceptance with God is found in Christ alone or by belonging to some version of the supposed ‘True Church.’

Either/or…take your pick! If a church can grant you acceptance with God, then you don’t need Christ crucified. The ‘The True Church’ folk, regardless of the name on the front door, claims to alone have it right.

One of the many evils of this doctrine is that it tends to give birth to religious tyranny. When any Church represents itself as having power over the eternal destiny of its adherents, then it can rule its people with an iron fist. When the members view themselves as being in the ‘True Church’ then they will find it difficult to ever disassociate no matter how distasteful they find that church. In their minds if they leave the ‘True Church’ they are facing hell fire. They are living under bondage and tyranny and are thus far removed from the freedom of the gospel!

Finally, another problem with the "‘The True Church” teaching is that it breeds elitism. After all, they think they are God’s special people on the earth, because they are His ‘True Church’. They are, they think, the only ones who have it right, therefore, they assume that God must look upon them with special favour. This kind of thinking, then, finds itself in direct competition with the gospel for the gospel confers special status on all who by faith receive Jesus Christ as Substitute and Saviour. In the gospel, special status is conferred on the believer in Christ alone plus nothing. The gospel, when properly applied and understood, is a threat to the supposed, “True Church. “ If people begin to grasp the application of the gospel then there is no further need for the “True Church” doctrine.  It becomes redundant.

No longer will the supposed Church be needed to get one right with God. That means that if people find out that the way to God is in a perfect Person, not in any church, the membership of the so-called ‘True Church’ will drop. And if attendance drops so would the “True Church” income. That’s all too risky a prospect! And that is why any group claiming to be the ‘True Church” will never preach and apply the gospel and that is also why any church which preaches, expounds and applies the gospel can never fall for the error of the ‘‘True Church” doctrine.

And that’s the Gospel Truth!

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