Now when a believer – or a church – buys into the wrong foundations, it will develop the wrong sense of what it is for. I recently spoke to a conference of young ministers and about to be ministers and I asked them what the church is for. I was slightly surprised that few could give me a short, clear, biblical answer. Here is a short, clear, biblical answer: most simply put, the purpose of the church is to go into all the world, making disciples of Jesus, baptising them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey all that Jesus commanded (Matt 28).