If we intend to practice the church life, we must first see what the church is. The church is the Body of Christ, a group of people who have Christ living in them and who have given up their own life to take Christ as their life. A group of believers who do not take Christ as life may be genuine, born-again Christians, but their coming together will not be the real church life; it will simply be an assembly of people who are in the self. “The experience of the Body of Christ, the real church life, comes into being practically when we realize that Christ is our life and that we have been crucified with Him on the cross, when we renounce and deny our self, and when we take Christ as our life, live by Him, and apply Him in our daily life and walk. When we as such persons come together in and with Christ to share Christ with one another, we are the Body of Christ in a real way and are practicing the real church life.”