Mention the word church to many people today and if they don’t immediately think building, they’ll assume you’re talking about somewhere you go. And their response will possibly be, “I go there occasionally,” or, “I used to go there.” Or they might even say, “Why do I need it?” But 2,000 years ago, in the early, exciting days of the church, the believers saw the church as a community of the called to which they belonged wholeheartedly.

Stuart Briscoe fervently believes that the church of today needs to (re)discover a basic understanding of the biblical meaning of church. And in this series of twelve teachings, he enthusiastically outlines his own discoveries and seeks to show practically what it means to be called as participants in what Jesus is building in the world today! For church is not somewhere we go, church is something we are!