- The local church is defined as a local assembly of believers or a congregation that meets together physically for worship, fellowship, teaching, prayer and...
- Different doctrines and practices divide the Church into three major categories within Christianity – Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Protestant.
- From Middle English chirche, from Old English ċiriċe (“church”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirikā, an early borrowing of Ancient Greek κυριακόν (kuriakón)...
- The word ‘church’ has been added by King James to the translation, who ordered his translators to replace the word ‘ekklesia’ with this word ‘church’.
- That belonging to the Lord’s church is important is emphasized in Acts 2:47, where we find that “the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”
- After the Reformation, church was used for any particular Christian denomination agreeing on doctrine and forms of worship.
- The term church, over time, has been used to describe all of the following: All Christians who have ever lived, live currently, or will live in the future...
- Finally, apostolic implies that, in both its church and ministry, the church is historically continuous with the Apostles and thus with the earthly life of Jesus.
- Those Christians happened to meet in little gatherings in different people’s homes, which were sometimes called “churches...