Was the early church the Body of Christ?
The early church was a called-out, separated group of Jews, but it was not yet under the terminology of the Body of Christ, which is something different. The speaker acknowledges some may disagree, but he does not consider that early assembly to be the Body of Christ.
Les explains that the early church was a called-out, separated group of Jews, but he does not feel they were as yet under the terminology of the Body of Christ, which is something so different. He acknowledges that some may not agree. He connects this to Paul's statement that he persecuted the assembly of God, and to Stephen's address to Israel's leaders, and to Saul of Tarsus fighting the inroads Jesus and the Twelve were making into Judaism.