What Is Church?

Dear Restoration,

What is church?

In this year of pandemics and lockdowns, restrictions and masks, it’s a question we’ve had to face in ways we could never have imagined. What exactly is church?

We each have our own answers – some of which we’ve had to figure out on the fly – and even now I can imagine the voices of my life group’s seminarians hashing it out between all the possible stances of theology and history (with a dollop of ridiculousness, because that’s how we roll).