Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
DEFINITION: Hebrew
qahal, an assembly, gathering, used as noun 123x; translated by ekklesia in LXX
In 36 instances, translated by sunagoge Verb used 39x Used to refer to groups in general, such as those gathered for military purposes, judicial purposes
DEFINITION: Greek
ekklesia, gathering or assembly, church;
Prior to NT used almost exclusively for secular assemblies From ek (out of) and kaleo (call) Focus is on the gathered body, not the act of coming out The calling out of citizens to attend to the discussion of public business
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 3
DEFINITION: Greek
In a local sense nearly 40 times; e.g.,
Acts 5:11, And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.
DEFINITION: Greek
James 5:14, Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
In a collective sense, i.e., an organized mass of believers (later theologians, the Visible Church);
Acts 8:3, But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison. I Cor. 15:9, For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. Gal. 1:13, For you have heard of my former life in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it.
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 5
DEFINITION: Greek
Phil. 3:6, as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness, under the law blameless.
To the Church extended abroad, Acts 9:31, So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. Church is used in the broadest sense: all believers (later theologians, the Invisible Church)
Eph. 1:22, And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, 23 which is his body . . . Col. 1:18, And he is the head of the body, the church.
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 6
DEFINITION: Greek
Miscellaneous uses:
An assembly in the desert (O.T.), Acts 7:38, This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai . . . An unruly mob gathering, Acts 19:32, Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together. See also vss. 39,41 To refer to kingly gathering for liturgical praise, Hebrews 2:12, saying, I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 7
DEFINITION: Greek
Some difficult usages:
Matt. 16:18, And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Perhaps the Church Militant Acts 20:28, Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. (the assembly in Ephesus)
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 8
DEFINITION:
circe, Saxon kirk, Scottish kirche, German All of these are most likely derived from kuriakos, of the Lord, the Lords
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 10
DEFINITION: Confessional
L.C. # 62, The visible church is a society made up of all such as in all ages and places of the world do profess the true religion and of their children. WCF, 25:2 L.C. # 64, The invisible church is the whole number of the elect, that have been, are, or shall be gathered into one under Christ the head. WCF, 25:1
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 11
WCF, 25:6, There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ; nor can mere man in any sense be the head thereof.
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 15
It is the Temple of the Holy Spirit I Cor. 3:16-17, Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you are that temple. I Cor. 6:19, Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 18
Gods Building
5/16/2013
The Fellowship of the Spirit, Eph. 2:22, In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Branches on a Vine, John 15:5, I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 21
5/16/2013
24
The Kingdom creates the Church The Church witnesses to the Kingdom The Church is the instrument of the Kingdom The Church is the custodian of the Kingdom
5/16/2013 Church and Sacraments 2 25
THE CHURCH