What do I understand the church to be?

I understand the church to be all of the people of God plus the institutions of the church, with God the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit working in and through all of us to bring us closer to God, who is love, and away from all evil, and that through the teaching, suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ we may gain eternal happiness in heaven with Him in the next life. …showed first 75 words of 1974 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1974 total…are being invited to 'start again' from scratch, from a rediscovery of the novelty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And Mary has been called the 'star' of this New Evangelisation. (13) There is much debate about the way forward for the Church, I think that for each one of us it must involve a personal relationship with Jesus, and with that mindset and spirit set, we can move in the right direction individually and collectively.