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Public Relations

By Jeremy Myers
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It’s been a while since I made a post on the progress of my book, Close Your Church for Good. This is because several of the chapters I had writtenย got pulled out for a future book, and others got rearranged.ย I guess this is why books don’t get written online like this…

So below isย a section near the beginning ofย “Chapter 3.” The beginning of the chapter shows how most churches in most communities would not be missed if they were to close. I alreadyย made two posts (Part 1 and Part 2)ย on thisย back in July. We pick up there.ย 

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Manyย believe the primary problem is that of image and perception. We believe we are misunderstood. We know our hearts and our motives, and how we want to help people learn and live the truth of the Gospel, but for some reason, the average person on the street has a somewhat negative perception of the church. They read about church corruption and pastoral sex scandals in the newspapers, and they donโ€™t trust us. Some have tried attending a church, but got burned. They are tired of being asked for money. As a result, the average person thinks the church is greedy, hypocritical, unforgiving, judgmental, harsh, and selfish.

Of course, the average churchgoer believes just the opposite. People who attend church believe their fellowship is warm, friendly, gracious, generous, and compassionate. The fact that non-churchgoers think differently shocks us. We are certain that people who distrust church would like it if they just visited ours. Maybe they had a bad experience in another church, or as a kid when they were growing up, but things are different now. Our church is not like those other churches.

But how can we get them to visit if they donโ€™t trust churches in general? People wonโ€™t come to church when we invite them unless they first begin to change their perceptions about the church. How can this be done if we canโ€™t them to attend?

Typically, a church faced with this dilemma embarks on a public relations campaign borrowed straight from the pages of Corporate Americaโ€™s User Manual. When Toyota recalls millions of cars for sticky gas pedals, they simultaneously air commercials on television about all the safety awards they have won. When a BP oil rig spews oil in the Gulf, Florida rolls out advertisements about how their beaches are still safe and clean. When the antenna on the new iPhone doesnโ€™t work properly, Apple sends all users a coupon for a free case.

So churches do the same thing. To counteract our negative image in the public arena, we develop slogans like โ€œFirst Community Church: The Perfect Church for People Who Arenโ€™tโ€ or โ€œGrace Church: A Hospital for the Hurting.โ€ Then, once the image and slogan are developed, the campaign really begins in earnest. People are invited to come as they are, and reminded that weโ€™re all sinners on the road to change. Signs and banners are displayed around the church so the members understand (and hopefully live) what is taught. Sermon series are preached on the themes of forgiveness and love. Air time is purchased on television and radio to run commercials about how great and loving our church is.

Then we sit back and wait for the people to arrive so we can really begin to show them how loving we are.

The problem, however, is that the public relations campaign doesnโ€™t always work. If anything, the perspective of outsiders only gets worse. At least, thatโ€™s what happened in my church.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books by Jeremy Myers, Close Your Church for Good, Theology of the Church

Church, Parenthood, and Baseball

By Jeremy Myers
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My wife and I love watching the NBC show Parenthood. We are, after all, parents. It’s a great show about life, love, and the struggles and challenges of parenting. We watch it through NBC.com, rather than on TV (less commercials that way).

Tonight we watched Episode 3 from Season 2. If you scroll through to about 29:30, there is a great little dialogue between Crosby, one of the fathers, and Renee, his mother-in-law. She thinks he should take his son, Jabar, to church on Sunday, and he wants to take Jabar to a baseball game. Here is the exchange:

Renee: You’ll forgive me if I don’t applaud when you want to take Jabar to a baseball game.

Crosby: Well now, hold on. You love your church and your church rocks, and I’m glad I got to go. But my family, we went to the baseball game every Sunday, and we sat together on the bleachers, and we cheered together, and my dad narrated the whole thing, and it was special. It was our ritual.

Renee: So baseball is your church? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?

Crosby: …Yeah.

Renee: That’s ridiculous.

Crosby: Hold on. That’s not ridiculous. I want my son Jabar to have the same experience with all the other people and the camaraderie. So I disagree.

As Iย heard this, I was reminded of something I read recently by Jacques Ellul in his book, The Presence of the Kingdom. He said, “In a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to liveโ€ (p. 77).

Crosby and Ellul are saying the same thing. In a culture like ours, as important as it might be for some people toย enterย a building where theyย sing songs and listen to a sermon, it is just as important to others to go to a baseball game and cheer on the home team…especially if it brings family together and strengthens bonds of love and care. Churches often talk about bringing families together, but if we’re honest, the simple act of “attending church” rips a lot of families apart. And along the same lines, if worship of God is to pervade everything in life, can’t attending a baseball game with your family and friends also be true worship?

I’m convinced Ellul is correct. One of the best things Christians can do in our time is just to live life. With each other. With family. With friends. With Jesus. That is the greatest witness we can have and the greatest worship we can give.

If you want to watch the video, here it is:

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Burned by Jesus

By Jeremy Myers
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Following Jesus is never easy. Sometimes, it appears downright foolish and counterproductive. Peter experienced this firsthand. He had just worked all night, and caught nothing. As a married man, who may have had children, Peter worked all night and had nothing to show for it. He had just spent all morning cleaning his nets so he could go out again tonight in hopes of having something to bring home to feed his family.

And now, Jesus tells him to waste more time and energy by throwing his nets back into the water, in the middle of the day! Experience and wisdom told Peter to ignore Jesus, but friendship and faith told him to obey.

Thankfully, Peter obeyed, and he got a large catch of fish that day. For all we know, it was the greatest number of fish ever caught on the Sea of Galilee in one day, and Peter did it in one cast of the netโ€”all because he followed Jesus into foolishness.

I am not saying that Christians should live foolish lives. The Book of Proverbs is very clear that we are to lives of wisdom and care, full of planning and preparation for the future. But sometimes God leads us into messy, scary, dangerous, wasteful, and foolish places. Sometimes in following Jesus, it seems like we are walking backwards.

And sometimes when we try to follow Jesus, it seems like we hit a brick wall. This has happened frequently to my wife and I the last few years, with my new job, our adoption process, our attempts at church planting, and a host of other areas. I sometimes wish there were accounts in Scripture where people followed Godโ€™s instructions, stepped out โ€œin faithโ€ and then nothing happened. I would like to see how they responded.

What if Peter had cast in his net, and come up with nothing? Then he would have had to go back to shore and clean his nets all over again. And he would have missed time with his family and been too tired to fish the night. He certainly would have wondered why Jesus caused all that pointless work. Do you think he would have left his boats and nets to followed Jesus?

Now that I think about it, there is at least one story in Scripture where this happens. Remember Jonah? God says, โ€œGo to Nineveh and tell them Iโ€™m going to destroy them.โ€ So Jonah doesโ€ฆand Godโ€™s doesnโ€™t. How does Jonah respond? He gets angry. And at the end of the book, God basically tells Jonah that He didnโ€™t follow through because He is trying to teach Jonah something, namely, that God loves peopleโ€ฆeven the ones we hate.

So when you and I get โ€œburned by Jesus,โ€ when we try to follow Him in faith and it seems He drops the ball,ย  hopefully we have eyes to see what it was He was trying to teach us about our view of Him and our love toward others.

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This post is based on the Grace Commentary for Luke 5:1-11.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Discipleship, Theology of Jesus

The Fishing Church

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The Fishing Church

The way we often use our Bibles makes no sense. We often hear it argued in Christianย circles and churches that to be truly Biblical, we have do things as Jesus did them, or as the early church did them. This is especially true, we are told, when we read about Jesus giving instructions to His disciples. โ€œWeโ€™re are His disciples, too,โ€ the argument goes. โ€œSo we need to follow the same instructions that Jesus gave His disciples.โ€

This is all fine in theory.

The problem is when you try to consistently apply it.ย ย Take Luke 5:1-11 as an example. In this text, we see Jesus preaching from a boat after instructing His disciples to launch out a bit from shore. Maybe to follow the instructions of Jesus today, we should start having โ€œboat churches.โ€ (Actually, I hear that certain cruise lines have on-board chaplains. Thatโ€™s a job I want! After all, I would be following the instructions of Jesus!)

But Jesus goes on.ย After He finishedย teaching,ย He told them to go fishing.ย If we want to obey Jesus, I suppose we should do the same. (To be honest, this is not a bad idea. Most churches are struggling to attract men. More might show up if we went fishing.) But of course, we would not be able to use rods and reels, since the disciples used a net. And of course, they were fishing in the middle of the day, which is a really bad time to fish, but…it’s what Jesus told His disciples to do.

I know, I know. I can hear it now.ย Howls of โ€œYou donโ€™t understand! You canโ€™t read the Bible that way!โ€ Some reader somewhere isย muttering about how I need instruction onย the difference between “prescriptive” passages and “descriptive.”

So explain foot washing ceremonies to me. And why do so many churches feel we must wave Palm branches on Palm Sunday? And whatโ€™s up with the anointing with oil for healing? And why do we dunk new converts under water?ย  And why do we have gleaming white buildings with giant steeples, multi-colored stained glass, and cushioned pews? Oh, wait. Scratch that last one. Thatโ€™s not in the Bible (Though I once had someone argue with me that it wasโ€ฆ).

But if you are in a church that does these sorts of things, and you try to get rid of them, you will get branded as a heretic for trying to disobey the instructions of Jesus. Well, if that’s the case, you better break out the fishing nets too.

Here is the issue: Why do we copy some of the actions of the disciples, but not others? Why do we follow some of the instructions of Jesus to His disciples, but not others?

Iโ€™ll tell you why. There are three reasons:ย tradition, politics, and money.

I’ve been doing a lot of reading on church history recently (for that book I’m writing…Close Your Church for Good), and it constantly amazes me how much of what we do “in church” isย a result ofย tradition (so much for Sola Scriptura) which developed 1000-1500 years ago as a result of a politician or priest who wanted more power or more money.

Look around when you next attend church and while thinking about various details or activities, askย “Why do we do this?” and “What would happen if we did away with it?” You’ll be surprised at how many nonessentials there really are.

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This post is based on the Grace Commentary for Luke 5:1-11.

God is Redeeming Books, Redeeming Church Bible & Theology Topics: Theology of Jesus, Theology of the Church

Sex Slaves

By Jeremy Myers
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I recently read Priceless by Tom Davis.ย  It’s the story of man who find himself in a dangerous attempt to rescue helpless girls who are trapped in the Russian sex-slave industry. I could not put the book down, and several times, found myself brought to tears as I read about the hellish plight of these young girls.

I don’t care what book you are reading right now; put it down and read this book.

The only complaint I have is that the book takes place in Russia. I found myself thinking at times, “Well, that’s Russia.”

The tragic fact is that you could change someย place names in the book, and the story could happen right here in the United States, or any other country.ย This is not a problem that happens on the other side of the world. It probably takes place in a city where you live. Check out these statistics (from This website):

  • Human trafficking is the third most profitable criminal activity, second after drugs and arms trafficking
  • An estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are trafficked yearly across international borders, and the trade is growing (Department of State. 2004. โ€œTrafficking in Persons Report.โ€ Washington, D.C.; U.S. Department of State.)
  • Of the 600,000-800,000 people trafficked, 70 percent are female and 50 percent are children; the majority of these victims are forced into commercial sex trade (ibid)
  • The number of U.S. citizens trafficked within the country each year is estimated 200,000 American children at risk for trafficking into the sex industry (U.S. Department of Justice. 2004. Report to Congress from Attorney General John Ashcroft on U.S. Government Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons in Fiscal Year 2003.)
  • Seventy percent of Internet sex shows are in the United States, of which women and children are forced into sexual acts while being taped.
  • As many as 7,000 Nepali girls as young as 9 are sold annually into Indiaโ€™s red-light districts, 200,000 in the last decade.
  • Afghani women are sold into prostitution in Pakistan for around 600 rupees โ€“ less than $4 a pound, depending on their weight.
  • About 50,000 Asian, Latin American and Eastern European women and children are trafficked into the United States for sexual exploitation, the going rate between $12,000 and $18,000 each.
  • Ten thousand children between the ages of 6 and 14 are in Sri Lankan brothels.
  • Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have become the sex centers for Western Europe, featuring women from the former Soviet Union.
    About 1,000 women from the former Soviet Union became prostitutes in Israel in exchange for legal documentation.

To learn more about what you can do, contact someone like Tom Davis or Pat McCalla who are involved with rescuing children from the sex-slave industry.

To learn more about Human Trafficking and sex slavery, check out some of these posts:

Human Trafficking Posts

  1. Sex Slaves
  2. Would You Fight Slavery?
  3. Rescue Russian Sex Slaves
  4. Rescue Russian Girls from Sex Slavery
  5. Stop Her Nightmare
  6. Another Girl Rescued Today
  7. Girls for Sale
  8. Goal Reached!
  9. I Want to be a Prostitute
  10. $52,000 raised!
  11. 31 Million Sex Slaves
  12. Renting Lacy
  13. More Than Rice
  14. Human Trafficking Ring Busted
  15. The Other Big Game
  16. Sex Slavery, Planned Parenthood, and Your Tax Dollars
  17. How to Minister to Prostitutes
  18. Wisconsin Woman Held as Sex Slave in Brooklyn
  19. Coked-Up Whore
  20. Human Trafficking has Many Faces
  21. Into an India Brothel
  22. You Need a Girl?
  23. Human Trafficking Media
  24. The Son of God is Selling Children
  25. My Girls Raised $300 to help stop Human Trafficking
  26. Rape for Profit
  27. Human Trafficking Statistics
  28. Help Rescue Girls from Forced Prostitution

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1 Corinthians 12 – Part B

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Close Your Church for Good, Chap. 4, Part 3.ย  In the previous post, we looked at the radical concept from Paul that the church is connected to each other in ways never before imagined. We now conclude our briefly look atย First Corinthians and the church as “The Body of Christ.”

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So when Paul begins to really emphasize in chapter 12 the image of the church as the Body of Christ, his readers will have understood that they are all in this together. What one person does spiritually or physically, is done to all. If an action spiritually or physically harms one, it harms all. If it benefits one, it benefits all. Paulโ€™s emphasis in First Corinthians 12 is that as members of the Body, we are connected to each other. Each person has a unique purpose and function within the Body to fulfill, which, if carried out, benefits the individual and the rest of the Body.

This idea continues on through chapters 13 and 14, and is climaxed in chapter 15 with Paulโ€™s discussion of the resurrection. Paulโ€™s point in this entire section is that the church is a unified whole, which he calls the Body of Christ. The Body is a community of people in Jesus Christ. โ€œThe Body of Christ is precisely the Church in which Christ moves out into the world.โ€ In the words of K. L. Schmidt, โ€œChrist is the church itself, for this is the Body of Christ.โ€

Such an understanding is surprisingly similar to what was seen in the discussion of ekklฤ“sia above. The church consists of those who have been gathered by God into Jesus Christ. Therefore, the churchโ€”Body of Christโ€”is Jesus Christ to the world. All who are gathered into Jesus are part of Jesus, and participate with Jesus in what He does in the world.

So the church as a Body is not a tradition to be followed or an office to be filled, but is rather the total, unified whole of all who are in Christ. Everyone is equal within the Body, and everyone has a part to play. At the same time, all actions, behaviors, and beliefs of one part affect every other part. Though the Body is not an individual person, each individual within the Body must understand that their actions have consequences, not just for themselves, but for the entire church. This is the point Paul seeks to drive home here in First Corinthians, and in other letters as well (cf. Rom 12:4-8; Eph 4:12-16).

So the picture of the church as the Body of Christ is an excellent image, and is probably the most common image in the mind of most Christians even though the concept is found in only a few places within the writings of Paul. So although it is a good image, it is not the only image for the church, nor is it the most common. Therefore, another image should be used.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Close Your Church for Good, Theology of the Church

Beyond Opinion

By Jeremy Myers
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I recently read the book, Beyond Opinion by Ravi Zacharias.ย As with most of his books, this isย not a book you can skim through in an afternoon. It has substance. While the book is quite readable, the content requires you to stop and think about what you are reading. And that, of course, is what apologetics is all about – thinking about what you believe and why.

This book is a great introduction to some of the great issues of the Christian faith, and how we, as followers of Jesus, can stand firm on the Bible and what we believe to be true. It contains chapters on the reliability of the Bible, what Christians can do to stand against the challenges of postmodernism, Atheism, Islam, and other key apologetical issues (e.g., the problem of evil). Overall, the book did an excellent job of summarizing the Christian stance on these issues.

And best of all, the book has several chapters on how to incorporate truth into our lives. Living the truth is not about beating people over the head with it, but having the answers when the questions are raised in the relationships of our lives and our own spiritual development.

Disclosure: I reviewed this book for the Thomas Nelson Booksneeze website.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Books I'm Reading, Discipleship

1 Corinthians 12 – Part A

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Close Your Church for Good. Chap 4, Part 2.ย After introducingย the popular image of “The Body of Christ” for the church, we now look briefly at the only place in Scripture where this exact term is used. This will be covered in two blog posts.

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The primary passage from Paul that talks about the gifts of the Holy Spirit is First Corinthians 12. In this chapter Paul compares the church to a body, and just as each part of a body has its own unique function, so also our gifting by the Holy Spirit provides each of us a unique purpose within the church, which is the Body of Christ (12:27). To understand Paulโ€™s idea in First Corinthians 12, some background is necessary. As noted above, the vast majority of the uses of the word โ€œbodyโ€ (Gk. sลma) in the New Testament are by Paul. Of these, he uses it most frequently in the letter of First Corinthians. Why?

The Corinthian Christians saw themselves as spiritually elite. They were super spiritual. For them, everything was about the Holy Spirit, and their own spiritual life. Many of them were beginning to neglect the physical reality around them, and even deny that what was done in the flesh had any serious ramifications upon their spirit. In their minds, the flesh and the spirit were separate. This error of dualism has its origins in the philosophical ideas of Plato. Much of Paulโ€™s letter to the Corinthians is focused on correcting this hyper-spiritual outlook on life. He attempts to show that what is done in the flesh has serious ramifications for life in the Spirit.

This is part of the reason Paul emphasizes the image of โ€œbodyโ€ so much in his letter to the Corinthians. He wants to show that what is done in the body affects not only the spirit, but also the body, including the entire Body of Christ, the church. The earth-shattering concept that Paul emphasizes to the Corinthians is not only that the physical and spiritual side of a person are connected in one unified body, but also that each and every person within the Body of Christ is connected to each other. When we sin in our own flesh, we drag the entire Body of Christ with us.

One example is sufficient to show Paulโ€™s thought. After an extended discussion of why the Corinthians should glorify God with both body and our spirit, Paul tells the Corinthians in 6:15-20 that having sex with a prostitute is not simply a sin of the flesh, but also engages the spirit. Beyond this, it is not just their own body and spirit that are united to the prostitute, but the Body of Christ and the Holy Spirit as well! Paul argues that such an idea should be enough to keep us from sin.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Close Your Church for Good, Theology of the Church

The Body of Christ

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Do I need to say it? A lot has been going on. But it’s all Peanuts in China. Hopefully I can get back to regular posting soon, but no promises. Below is the next installment of the book I am writing.

Close Your Church for Good, Chap 4, Sec 1. I am beginning to defend and clarify my definition for “church.”

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When people think of biblical imagery for the church, the most common picture that comes to mind is the Body of Christ. However, this exact phrase is only found a few times in Scripture (e.g., Rom 7:4; 1 Cor 10:16; 12:27; Eph 4:12). All of these are from Paul, and all except one do not refer to the church, but to the actual body of Jesus. Only one text, 1 Corinthians 12:27, refers to the church specifically as the Body of Christ. This text will be discussed below. Other passages hint at the church being the Body of Christ, but do not contain the exact phrase (e.g. Rom 12:5; Eph 1:22-23; 5:23; Col 1:24; 2:17).

Paul may have selected body imagery for the church due to the similarities between the Greek concepts of body (Gk. sลma) and the church (Gk. ekklฤ“sia). For example, sลma is a word which represents a person in their totality. It is understood that the sลma has parts, some physical (bones, flesh, blood), some spiritual (soul, spirit), and some psychological (emotions, intellect, will, personality), but the word does not refer to just one of these parts, such as the physical, but to the entire person. This is like the church, the ekklฤ“sia. The church is a unified whole, and while it is made of numerous members, does not refer to only one member.

Nevertheless, although the image is a good one, it is used only by Paul, and even then, less frequently then other imagery. Since this is so, how is it that the idea of the church being a Body became so prominent if it is not found throughout the New Testament, but only rarely in Paulโ€™s letters? How did it become the most popular and widely known image for the church? It is probably a result of the dual emphasis in many churches on the teachings of Paul and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church. One of the most common passages which supports this image is First Corinthians 12, which we turn to next.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Close Your Church for Good, Theology of the Church

Ekklesia

By Jeremy Myers
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Close Your Church for Good, Chap. 3, Part 4. Having introduced the definition of the church, I now attempt to clairfy some misconceptions of the church. I begin with the Greek word ekklฤ“sia.

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First, it is true, as mentioned above, that the Greek word used for โ€œchurchโ€ is ekklฤ“sia, which means โ€œgatheringโ€ or โ€œassembly.โ€ The term could be used of any type of gathering, whether social, political, or religious, and even of groups of people that never actually โ€œgather.โ€

It is important to note that โ€œchurchโ€ is not exactly a translation of the Greek ekklฤ“sia. The term โ€œchurchโ€ actually is derived from the German Kirche, which in turn comes from the Greek adjective kuriakos, โ€œbelonging to the Lordโ€ (cf. 1 Cor 11:20) or possibly the Latin circus. In the early history of the church, when the New Testament was getting translated from Greek into Latin, there was no clear equivalent in Latin for ekklฤ“sia, and so various terms were proposed. Tertullian used curia (โ€œcourtโ€) while Augustine famously wrote of the Civitas Dei (โ€œCity of Godโ€). One surprisingly common term used by various Greek writers was thiasos (โ€œpartyโ€), which generally referred to a troop of revelers marching through the city streets with dance and song, often in honor of Bacchus, the god of drunkenness. The point is that many early writers did not know how to translate or describe the term ekklฤ“sia, but the terms they proposed offer tantalizing clues as to how the church functioned and was viewed during its early years.

Some help on translating ekklฤ“sia may come from recognizing that it is derived from the word kaleล, โ€œto call.โ€ Some who have understood this refer to the church as โ€œthe called out ones.โ€ But it must be pointed out that the emphasis in such a usage is not on the people who gather, or where they gather, but rather, who or what does the gathering. To put it another way, the most important factor in an ekklฤ“sia is who causes and calls the assembly. When compared with the Scriptural usage of the term, it quickly becomes obvious that it is God who calls the assembly, and forms the gathering. Therefore, whenever the term โ€œchurchโ€ is used, it is either stated or implied that it is a gathering of (or by) God.

It is likely that the New Testament writers borrowed the term from the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament) where the people of Israel are often referred to as the ekklฤ“sia of God. They were called and gathered by God from the world to accomplish a specific purpose and task. In the New Testament, the emphasis is that when God gathers, He does so not by gathering people together as a nation, but by gathering people together into a person, namely, Jesus Christ.ย 

This is the first misconception about the church that must be unraveled. It is not a place or a building (more on this in chapter 8). Church is not something you go to. Nor is it an event. It is not something you can do. It cannot be scheduled. Instead, the church is people whom God has gathered into Jesus Christ.

God is Uncategorized Bible & Theology Topics: Close Your Church for Good, Theology of the Church

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