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ARTICLE 13498
The Essence of the Church



Tom Julien, Evangelical Missions Quarterly (http://www.emqonline.com/), Apr 01, 1998, Volume 34:2, pp. 148-153. Used by permission of Evangelical Missions Quarterly. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, printed for distribution or mirrored at other sites without written permission from the copyright owner(s). For hardcopy reprints, please contact their website.
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The supreme purpose of human history is the calling out and perfecting of the Bride of our Lord Jesus Christ. The church is the masterpiece of God's wisdom. She exists already in all her glory in the mind of Christ. She will be one day manifested before the watching universe in that glory. As the artist keeps contemplating the landscape in order to capture its glory on the canvas, so must the church planter behold the glory of the church in her ideal form in order to effectively gather saints in