A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.

When one goes to Church we go to worship the Lord our God not to party or to get entertained. Our Lord Jesus Christ suffered for 40 days in isolation out in the desert and at the hands of those who did not believe in Him, and a lot of people claim church is boring. How sad it is that people can't even give our God at least one hour, once a week to really worship in His house. We must also understand that the church is the pillar and the bulwark of truth (1 Tim 3:15). We must remember the church is one body and in this body it has many members (1 Cor.6:15; 12:12-27, Eph 5:30, Rom 12:4-5), and i am not speaking of an invisible body but very visible body of the Church which is Jesus Christ. Jesus said if we have an unresolved grievance we should "tell it to the church" (Matt. 18: 17). How’s that possible if the church is "invisible" for some of you? St. Paul never speaks of the Church ever being in the spirit alone but always both spirit and in the flesh, because Jesus our God was both flesh and Spirit. God's Church is made of sinners and saints, and when He came down and gathered the twelve men He did not gather twelve individuals but a body of men. There is only one Church that I know of, that has been doing this for 2010 years. We are known as the first Christians and the one True Church. It's been known as the Catholic Church since the year 110A.D.. It has a strong back bone founded by our Lord Jesus Christ. He set the first foundation which is St. Peter, the rock of the Church. Yes the Church is built on St. Peter and it's also built on 11 other apostles. Christ founded a visible structure and unified doctrine. So for 2010 years this Church has been worshiping our Lord Jesus Christ every Sunday and every day of the week when we go to Church. Therefore, anyone who is satisfied with the notion of the Church being merely a disjointed spiritual union of believers is settling for something less than the Church divinely instituted and ordered by Christ. Jesus tells his followers, who make us the Church on earth, that they are "the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lamp stand, where it gives light to all in the house" (Matt. 5:14-15; see also Luke 8:16,11:33).
-Matthew Trevino