God’s people have always had a single house of salvation at any given time.

• One ark - Genesis 6

  • Genesis 7:21-222 – Everything outside the ark perished. Any that wanted to could have entered.

• One tabernacle – Exodus 25:8-9

  • Leviticus 17:1-9

• One house for Rahab’s family – Joshua 21:1-19

• One temple – Deuteronomy 12:6-14; 14:23-26

  • I Kings 9:1-8; 11:37-38; 12:30

• One church – Matthew 6:18-19; I Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 1:22-23

  • Matthew 16:8 – Jesus would build His church. He succeeded!

  • I Corinthians 1:2; Romans 16:16

In Christ, His body, His church, there is:

• Triumph – II Corinthians 2:14

• Reconciliation – Ephesians 2:14-16

  • Ephesians 1:23

• Life and light – John 1:14

• Completeness – Colossians 2:10

• Sonship – Galatians 3:26-27

• All spiritual blessings – Ephesians 1:3

The teaching and practice of the church of Christ started in Jerusalem in AD 33.

Ephesians 1:22