http://www.churchsociety.org/crossway/documents/Cway_082_Allister13.pdf
[Cross†Way] Issue Autumn 2001 No. 82--Concluding the final part of Donald Allister’s series on the Thirty-nine Articles this continues fromArticles for Today (Part 1) printed in the previous edition of Cross†Way.
(j) The Church Invisible and Visible
The one universal church of God has two aspects, visible and invisible, but is not two churches. It is invisible in that God alone knows those whom he has chosen and whose repentance and faith are sincere. It is visible in that the public ministry of the word and sacraments, for which local congregations or churches gather, are visible. When a man repents and believes, which normally occurs through the witness of the church, he is thereby joined to the church invisible, and it becomes his right and duty to join the church visible, or to confirm his existing membership of it.
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