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→‎Forty-four: quote from article "Gospel Way: Things That Are Essential to Salvation" - church membership Acts 2:47; Acts 20:28; Ephesians 5:23,25 - also some clarifications of Catholic doctrine of "Church" as the body of Christ who saves through her
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:See [https://www.gospelway.com/salvation/things-save.php '''Gospel Way: Things That Are Essential to Salvation:''' Are we saved by Grace, Faith, Good Works, or Baptism "Alone"? (gospelway.com)] ''This Protestant evangelical author states emphatically that the Christian religion as a whole, in all its parts, is essential to salvation''.  
 
:See [https://www.gospelway.com/salvation/things-save.php '''Gospel Way: Things That Are Essential to Salvation:''' Are we saved by Grace, Faith, Good Works, or Baptism "Alone"? (gospelway.com)] ''This Protestant evangelical author states emphatically that the Christian religion as a whole, in all its parts, is essential to salvation''.  
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:—"Church membership:
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::"Acts 2:47 - The Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. The church does not save, but those who are saved are in the church. If we are not in the church, what is our condition?
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::"Acts 20:28 - Jesus purchased the church with His blood (that which saves us).
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::"Ephesians 5:23,25 - Jesus is Savior of the body (church), and gave Himself for the church. How can one be saved if He is not part of that which Jesus died to save?"
    
:See [https://www.openbible.info/topics/church '''100 Bible verses about Church''' (openbible.info)]
 
:See [https://www.openbible.info/topics/church '''100 Bible verses about Church''' (openbible.info)]
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:According to the [[Catholic Church]], Christ saves men through the sanctifying power of the Church. United with Christ as his one body, the Church is sanctified by him; through him and with him in the Holy Spirit she becomes sanctifying. See [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a9p3.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC, numbers 811–870].
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:According to the [[Catholic Church]], Christ saves men through the sanctifying power of the Church. United with Christ as his one body, the Church is sanctified by him; through him and with him in the Holy Spirit she becomes sanctifying, the Church saves souls. See [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p123a9p3.htm Catechism of the Catholic Church CCC, numbers 811–870].
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:See [https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/outside_the_church.htm Outside the Church There Is No Salvation (ewtn.com)] ''What this statement actually means—it's not what you think!''
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:See [https://www.ewtn.com/expert/answers/outside_the_church.htm Outside the Church There Is No Salvation (ewtn.com)] ''What this statement actually means—it's not what you think!'' Outside of Christ there is no salvation.
 
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