The Church is the body and sickness is usually cause by and introduction of something alien to the body. It could be an introduction of an organism such as bacteria or it could be an instance that is strange to the body. The Church is the body of Christ and the Bible says it is the fullness of Christ and it is filled with Christ (Eph 1:23). This body is totally and utterly Christ and if this body is sick it can only mean one thing i.e something other than Christ have been introduced into the body. How does the world deal with sickness? You must know the cause of the sickness i.e the alien thing that have been introduce into the body. This identification can only be possible when you know the body well enough to differential that which is of the body from that which is alien. If the alien object is not identified whatever solution that may be propose would be a guess work, a probability and it may never really heal the sickness.

The reason why we cannot find the right solution to the problem of the Church is because we have been doing a lot of guess work in our solution finding. We don't know Christ well enough and we can't identify the alien object being introduce. We have to understand that the Church is a body and we can only find solution to the problem when we treat the Church has a body. The solution is not getting the right doctrinal practice, it is not trying to be holier, it is not praying harder and it is not more evangelism. The solution is knowing Christ well enough to be able to differential that which is Christ from that which is alien from Christ. Just as we study the anatomy of the human body we must know the anatomy of Christ, we must know that which constitute Christ.

The Church is not the body of the Bible but the body of Christ. It is not by trying to structure the Church base on the Bible that we can find it true form. But the Church must be structured according to Christ and everything that is not of Christ in the Church must be purge. Therefore the first step of solving the problem of the Church is knowing Christ.

You can read this book to see further: "According To Christ " by T. Austin Sparks, download the book for free or read online in his site
www.austin-sparks.net/english/books/books_alpha.html
Also here is a blog dedicated to revealing the constituents of Christ and to make Christ center and supreme in his Church:
hiswordxray..com