What About Church? (part2)

2. What does the word 'church' mean?

The word ‘church’ literally means a ‘called out people.’ The church is a group of people and not a building. It also means assembly or congregation. This is significant because many theologians impose a definition on ‘church’ that is foreign to the New Testament. Roman Catholicism claims that ‘The Church’ is the universal visible body of believers. Protestants, on the other hand, teach that ‘The Church’ is a universal invisible body of believers. The problem with both views is that they ignore the plain meaning of the word ‘church.’ The only church in the Bible is a local assembly.
Furthermore, the problem arises when one applies the definition of the Kingdom of God (which is composed of all believers) to the church (which is a local assembly).