In the Church there is continuity because it is the same Christ that lives within the Church and whose body the Church is. There is also freshness and newness in the Church because of the Holy Spirit the giver of life.
When the Church forgets Christ and seeks to become an imperial power in governance, a militant body in approaches, and a business structure in its dealings it ceases to be the Church. There is no Christ there, and so it is no more the Church. It may have deformed itself to a political-economic power.
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