The Outlaw Church

According to Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary the church is said to be both visible and invisible. It states that the visible church is called "visible" because its members are known and its assemblies are public. The invisible church is stated to be the universal church; those that have been, that are, or that shall be gathered into one under Jesus. It is the church to which the attributes, prerogatives, and promises appertaining to Christ's kingdom belong. This is the church that the author refers to as the "Outlaw Church".This book introduces the reader to those that might have been among a collection of 120 individuals that met for the first time in an upstairs room just a "Sabbath day's walk" from the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:12-26). This body of believers would not only build the church that Jesus established; they would also be forced to confront the law-driven, organized church that had been in existence for centuries. They would have to become "Outlaws".And, as is often the case, history, including church history, seems to repeat itself. Thus this book also presents the case that again the need arises for the return of the "Outlaw Church".