A building for public, especially Christian worship. 2. Often Church.a. The company of all Christians regarded as a mystic spiritual body. b. A specified Christian denomination. c. A congregation. 3. Public divine worship in a church; a religious service. 4. The clerical profession; clergy. 5. Ecclesiastical power as distinguished from the secular. 6. Christian Science. “The structure of Truth and Love” (Mary Baker Eddy). --church tr.v. churched, church·ing, church·es. 1. To conduct a church service for, especially to perform a religious service for (a woman after childbirth). --church adj. Of or relating to the church; ecclesiastical.
The visible church consists of all the people throughout the world that profess Christ as Saviour and are true believers. It is called 'visible' because all the people are known and the assemblies are public.
Each organized assembly is a part of the visible church, and all of them together make up the universal visible church. Among the church assemblies are both saints and sinners, a mixture of the 'wheat and chaff'.
Matthew 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
The invisible church consists of the entire body of the elect that have been,are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ. It is a pure church, a church in which Christ dwells. It _is_ the body of Christ. It's called invisible because the
members yet on earth can't be distinguished with certainity, and the greater part of this invisible church are in heaven or unborn. The qualifications for this church are internal and hidden, and unseen, except by Christ, who 'searches the heart'.
It is a 1spiritual body consisting of all true believers, i.e. the church invisible.
1Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
Salt used in the Bible:
Leviticus 2:13 And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.
Judges 9:45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; and he took the city, and slew the people that was therein, and beat down the city, and sowed it with salt.
2 Kings 2:20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.
2 Kings 2:21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
Job 6:6 Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?
Ezekiel 43:24 And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD.
Mark 9:49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
COVENANT OF SALT
1A covenant of salt was a covenant of perpetual obligation.
This was a covenant made by God with Israel, concerning the sacrifices they were to use forever. Salt was used in making covenants. If people ate food with salt in it, together, then they became friends. This meant you had partaken of
the hospitality which cements friendship.
Numbers 18:19 All the heave offerings of the holy things, which the children of Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy daughters with thee, by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.
The covenant of salt protrayed the everlasting friendship between God and His people.
A Church goer wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and
complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday.
I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have
heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me I
can't remember a single one of them. So I think I'm wasting my
time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at
all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the
Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on
for weeks until someone wrote this clincher:
"I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has
cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall
the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know
this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to
do my work. If my wife had not given me those meals, I would be
physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for
nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
When you are DOWN to nothing.... God is UP to something! Faith
sees the invisible, believes the incredible and receives the
impossible! Thank God for our physical AND our spiritual
nourishment!
Let
me invite you to find a home church, if you don't already have one. Find
a good bible-based church, attend regularly, and let the Holy Spirit bring
the Word alive! The church isn't perfect - it's made up of humans. But
it's a great place to learn of God and his promises, to meet like-believers,
and become a part of the Kingdom of God!
The Visible and Invisible Church
Matthew 5:13 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. 
