What is Church?

Below this entry I've got an awesome sermon posted from John MacArthur about the topic, "What is the church?" It's entitled, "Doing 'Jesus Is?'" He goes in to the election thing from the perspective of one who is 'reformed' as we say, but it doesn't bother me. I can listen and believe that the elect are who are saved by faith and then are regenerated. The thing to listen to and NOT MISS is the beautiful accuracy of what the church is...and what it is not. It is not bringing a group of unbelievers together and giving them what they want and calling it church. As MacArthur eloquently states, along with the book of Acts, the church is a group of believers. Unbelievers should not feel comfortable in church, they should see the beauty of transformed lives that are different from their own. Anyway, that is a bit of paraphrasing. It's a great sermon.