Christocentric Church -- passage from Scripture needed

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What is a good passage from Scripture that shows (without a doubt) how the whole Church is structured around Christ?
 
That’s a good passage – but I was thinking there might be something a little more concrete which indicates how all we believe, all we do, and all we worship centers around Christ.

For instance, suppose someone confronts you and says, “The life of the Church does not center around Christ.” Where would you go in the Bible to say, “No, the Bible says…”
 
Geremia said:
The Catholic Church puts the Trinity at the center, not just one person of the Trinity, like Christ, as Lutheran religions do.
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I hope this thread does not go off topic based upon any number of responses to this comment because true ecclesiology is always Christocentric. This is a wholly orthodox Catholic view.
 
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What is a good passage from Scripture that shows (without a doubt) how the whole Church is structured around Christ?
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Any passage that refers to the Eucharist is a good passage because the Eucharist is the source of the Church. So consider the last supper passages, ‘this is my body’. Consider John 6, 1Corinthians 10 and 11. Consider Paul’s conversion in Acts where Christ mentions that Paul is persecuting Him.
 
You could also consider passages from John like, ‘I am the way the truth and the light no one comes to the Father except by me.’ Or the passage from Matt.11 where Christ speaks of the fact that no one knows the Father except the Son and who He reveals Him to.

EDIT: Regarding the last passage from Matt.11. In conjuction with the beginning of Matt.12 is very good for the Christocentric nature of the Church. Pope Benedict has a very good explanation of it in his book Jesus of Nazareth where he uses a commentary by a Jewish Rabbi Jacob Neusner. Rabbi Nuesner says that as a Jew, his problem with Jesus is not that Jesus breaks the law or takes away from the law but that He has added to it. What He has added is Himself. Jesus makes Himself equal to the law giver and replaces the law with Himself.
 
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I like 1 Timothy 3:15 -

*But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. *
 
How about John 14:6

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
 
Eph 1:22-23 and He has put all things under His feet and has made Him the head over all things for the church, which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills all in all.

Eph 4:11-13 And His gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evantelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ;
 
Ephesians 2:

19] So then you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,
20] built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets,** Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
[21] in whom the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;**
22] in whom you also are built into it for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit
 
He who rejects you, rejects Me.
And he who rejects Me, rejects the One who sent Me.

That’s it in a nut-shell!
 
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