All Christian Youth Work is carried out in the context of the Church. The Youth Work may be linked to a specific Church, or a separate Youth Work Project may be sponsored in some way by local Christians. It may be that the Youth Work is outside an immediate Church context but the workers and leaders are Chriatians. Whatever the context, Christian youth workers need to understand what the Church actually is and how their ministry relates to the Church. This Module explores Biblical ideas of Church: What Jesus taught about the nature of the Church, how the Gospels writers understood the emerging Church community, what the Book of Acts teaches about the early Church and how Paul and the other New Testament writers developed ideas of what Church is. Students will be encouraged to understand the many models and images of 'Church' in the Bible and analyse the context of their own youth work in the light of that learning.