What is The Church

I never heard it put into words, but I had somewhat of a working definition of what the church is.  I am reading Mark Driscoll’s “Vintage Church” and I think this is the most descriptive and precise definition of The Church.  It reads as:

“The local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord.  In obedience to Scripture they organize under qualified leadership, gather regularly for preaching and worship, observe the biblical sacraments of baptism and communion, are unified by the Spirit, are disciplined for holiness, and scatter to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission as missionaries to the world for God’s glory and their joy.”