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==Synopsis==
A [[church building]] is a building used in [[Christian]] [[worship]]. The church is the Christian community of believers. ==Contents== {{also}} {{ebd}}----__TOC__
* [[What is the Church? (G.G.)]]
* [[The Church (justforcatholics.org)]]
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{{quote | text=The church is not a building. Nor is it an organisation or human institution. The church is simply the people whose sins have been forgiven through their faith Jesus Christ... (An extract from the book [[Once a Catholic]] by [[Tony Coffey]])}}
[[Image:Christians at lourdes.jpg|thumb|Christians marching in a procession at [[Lourdes]].]]
''Synopsis:'' A [[church building]] is a building used in [[Christian]] [[worship]]. The church is the Christian community of believers.
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* [[Church building]]
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{{quotesebd}} [[What is the Church? (G.G.)]] [[The Church (justforcatholics.org)]]
==Main article==
Since the church was formed after the resurrection of Jesus, major events and conflict, often over matters of [[doctrine]] have resulted in significant rifts. Initially the early Christians spread the good news of Jesus throughout the Roman empire and small congregations of Christians sprang up in many towns. Rome soon became the geographical centre of the church. However, there was a rift between the Church in Greece and the one in Rome that slowly developed over centuries culminating in a schism in 1054 AD. Later, in sixteenth century, Christians in northern Europe split from the Roman church, an event known as the [[Reformation]]. Today there seems to be a bewildering array of [[denominations]]. Some of the larger ones include [[Roman Catholicism]], the Greek and Russian [[Eastern Orthodox|Orthodox]] churches and the wide variety of [[Protestant]] churches.
==Quotes==
[[Once a Catholic]] by [[Tony Coffey]]
: The church is not a building. Nor is it an organisation or human institution. The church is simply the people whose sins have been forgiven through their faith Jesus Christ.
: Lenny Bruce
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
: Charles de Lint
Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Robert Short
: The church is the great lost and found department.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
: I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching.
George Mueller
: An unvisited church will sooner or later become an unhealthy church.
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