"When you join a church, you make it visible. You give a living demonstration of the spiritual reality of the body of Christ. You show that even though you are an individual, you are a part of the body; you are joined together with others. You take the body of Christ out of the realm of the theoretical (1 Cor. 12:27) and give it a meaning that people can see."
Don Whitney
Why Join a Church? Originally written in: Spiritual Disciplines Within the Church, Moody, 1996