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Certainly true, @timothyb... God's people are meant to be "set apart" and distinct from all else... In their beliefs, their behavior, their love for one another, and in they way they treat everyone.

The "church," i.e. the gathering of God's people is a group that is called out and gathered by God himself. Inherent in the Greek word εκκλησία is the idea of "being called out" but at the same time "being called together." Christians are called out of the world system, and admonished not to abandon gathering together.

What I'm objecting to here is using a word (church) that never really has, and certainly no longer, means what εκκλησία means...