All religious bodies have their own distinctive plea. Our plea is first, last and all the time, a plea for Christ. Whatever is not in some way connected with Christ, has no place in religious faith, doctrine, nor practice. Paul knew or recognized nothing in his preaching save "Jesus Christ, and him crucified" (1 Cor. 2:2). Any proper plea for Christ includes the whole truth about him, and all that he is, all that he ever did and taught. SONSHIP OF CHRIST Christ called God his "Father," and...

So much is being said and written about human denominations called "churches" that many seem never to have learned that Christ has a church at all. Sometime after the death of John the Baptist, Christ asked his disciples who they said he was. Peter said: "Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God." (Matt. 16:16; 14:1-12.) Peter thus confessed the rock bed, fundamental truth of Christianity. "UPON THIS ROCK" Christ said: "Upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall...