Who or What is the Church?

New video! And today we continue with where we left off in last week’s video:

“as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.” Ephesians 5:25-27

Why is the Church personified in Scripture and referred to as “her” in Ephesians? Who, or what, exactly is the Church?