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Church

The word 'church' in the New Testament is translated from the Greek word 'ekklesia' which comes from two words 'ek' meaning 'out' and 'kaleo' meaning to 'call.' An ekklesia or 'calling out' was not just an assembly. The Greek words agora and paneguris as well as heorte, koinon, thiasos, sunagoge and sunago can all mean an assembly.

The word ekklesia was a political term, not merely a religious term. Jesus was the King and the Bible used the term ekklesia for a good reason.

In classical Greek "ekklesia" meant "an assembly of citizens summoned by the crier, the legislative assembly."[1]

Defined?

Nimrod to Now Series: Part 10: The Church] ~8 min
  • "CHURCH In its most general sense, the religious society founded and established by Jesus Christ, to receive, preserve, and propagate his doctrines and ordinances."
  • "A body or community of Christians, united under one form of government by the profession of one faith, and the observance of the same rituals and ceremonies." Black's Law Dictionary 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th eds.

See also Churches

How do we get into or become a part of this one form government of Jesus Christ, this kingdom of Heaven on Earth?

Must we die to get into the Kingdom of Heaven?

  • He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err. (Mark 12:27)


What is the form of His government? How does Heaven run its government, its ekklesia, here on earth?

  • "But Jesus called them [unto him], and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant: Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many."(Matthew 20:25-28)

Are you in a government which exercises dominion over you?

Do you pray to Benefactors who exercise authority one over the other?

Are you praying to the Fathers of the earth?

If you are, then you are not in a government established by Jesus the Christ and the form of your government is not Christian.

The Church is the appointed government of God.[2]

But if the church does not seek to provide the benefits of the people through faith, hope, and charity and the Perfect law of liberty then it is not the Church established by Christ.

If the people who assemble at the Church are not supporting that effort of the Church to be the Benefactors of the people who do not exercise authority one over the other then they are not showing the fruits of repentance.


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Footnotes

  1. Liddell and Scott define ekklesia as "an assembly of citizens summoned by the crier, the legislative assembly." [R. Scott, and H.G. Liddell, A Greek-English Lexicon, p. 206.] Thayer's lexicon says, "an assembly of the people convened at the public place of council for the purpose of deliberating" [J. H. Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, p. 196]. Trench gives the meaning as "the lawful assembly in a free Greek city of all those possessed of the rights of citizenship, for the transaction of public affairs" [R.C. Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament, 7th ed., pp. 1-2]. Seyffert's dictionary states, "The assembly of the people, which in Greek cities had the power of final decision in public affairs" [Oskar Seyffert, A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, pp. 202-203].From "fully after the LORD" by [Steve Flinchum http://www.bryanstation.com/flinchum-fully.htm]
  2. Luke 22:29 And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;