Do You Want Jesus Without the Church?

If so, that is like wanting a head without the body.

In the intro to the book Why We Love the Church, Kevin DeYoung makes reference to what he calls a “decorpulated Christianity”.  To summarize…

1. Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 1:22-23, 5:23)

2. “If decapitation, from the Latin word caput, means to cut off the head, then it stands to reason that decorpulation, from the Latin word corpus, should refer to cutting off the body.” – p. 13

3.  Thus, to want Jesus without the church is to want a head without the body.  A decorpulated Christianity.

This hardly seems helpful though many voices, some self-proclaimed evangelicals and others in the culture at large, champion a churchless Christianity.