Do we preach christ or the church

[Amanyoh]

Peace of Christ,

My friend asked me whether we are going to preach or testify christ or church. My reply was no difference between christ and church , the church is christ’s bride and Christ is his bridegroom. Can you help me answer this question fully?

In christ Aman

 

[geezerbob]

Already being discussed here:
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=173270

 

[Br.Rich_SFO]

Peace of Christ,

My friend asked me whether we are going to preach or testify christ or church. My reply was no difference between christ and church , the church is christ’s bride and Christ is his bridegroom. Can you help me answer this question fully?

In christ Aman

That’s it. The Catholic Church is the Mystical Body of Christ. So you can’t preach Christ without the Church and you can’t have the Church without Christ.

 

[Gamera]

It’s like asking whether we preach Christ or the Bible. The question makes no sense. The Bible, like the Church, is all about Christ.

 

[epostle]

Protestants have trouble understanding the Incarnate nature of the Church, partly because they have no unifying Eucharist.

 

[Tomster]

Peace of Christ,

My friend asked me whether we are going to preach or testify christ or church. My reply was no difference between christ and church , the church is christ’s bride and Christ is his bridegroom. Can you help me answer this question fully?

In christ Aman

“Rather we hold the truth in charity, and grow in all things unto him who is the Head, Christ. From him the whole body, welded and compacted together by means of every joint of the system, part working in harmony with part - (from him) the body deriveth its increase, unto the building up of itself in charity.” (Ephesians 4:15-16)

As the whole Church is one Mystical Body by a similitude with man’s natural body, each of whose members has its appropriate activity (as St. Paul teaches in Romans 12 and 1 Corinthians 12), so Christ is called the Head of the Church by a parallel with the human head. This Headship may furthermore be considered under three aspects, viz. from the point of view of order, perfection and power. To take the first, order: we note that, beginning with what is highest, the head is the principal part of a man; it is thus that we call the source or origin of anything its “head.” Considered in this way, Christ has the chief place, by reason of his soul’s nearness to God; he is pre-eminent in God’s grace to such a degree that all others receive grace in virtue of his.

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[Tomster]

This is what is implied in St. Paul’s words: “For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made conformable to the image of his Son: that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” (Romans 8:29) Secondly, in the hierarchy of perfection in the head we find located all the interior and exterior senses, in the other parts of the body there is only the sense of touch. Similarly in Christ, as distinct from the inferior members of the Mystical Body, we find the fullness of and perfection of grace. (John 1:14) Finally with reference to power: just as the control of the other parts of the body resides in the head, so Christ rules over the Church’s members by the influence of grace. “And of his fullness we all have received.” (John 1:16)

Tomster

 

[Mannyfit75]

Peace of Christ,

My friend asked me whether we are going to preach or testify christ or church. My reply was no difference between christ and church , the church is christ’s bride and Christ is his bridegroom. Can you help me answer this question fully?

In christ Aman

We preached Christ Crucified.

 

[elvisman]

Peace of Christ,

My friend asked me whether we are going to preach or testify christ or church. My reply was no difference between christ and church , the church is christ’s bride and Christ is his bridegroom. Can you help me answer this question fully?

In christ Aman

Acts 9:3-5 explicitly states:
***On his journey, as he was nearing Damascus, a light from the sky suddenly flashed around him. ***
**He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting ME?" **He said, “Who are you, sir?” The reply came, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.

Notice he doesn’t say, " . . . my Church"? He says “ME”.
Jesus and his church are ONE.
To preach or testify Christ is to preach or testify his CHURCH, which is his body.