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Church as a Verb: Decentralized Microchurch Ecclesiology

For centuries, Western culture has conditioned believers to view church as a noun—a place you visit, a building you enter, or a weekly show you observe. Pulley shatters this consumeristic paradigm by defining church as a verb: an extended spiritual family living in daily covenant under the lordship of Jesus and committing to a common mission. A reader learns that when ordinary Christians gather around the ecclesial minimum—worship, community, and mission—they are fully church, equipped with spiritual authority to transform their surrounding culture without institutional overhead.