What We Mean By “Church” Matters
Most of the references to “church” in the New Testament refer to specific groups of people in local settings. There is, for example, a universal Church, but the focus of the New Testament references are to local churches.
Today, that gets a bit murkier.
A few years back I was going to our local theater to see a movie when I was a part of a church that met in that same theater. So I made a joke that we were “going to church” to see a movie. My 13-year old daughter said, “No, the church is the people.”
And, she’s right. But she also called our other campus at the time (which had a building) our “church” when no one is in it.
The challenge is that the word church carries a lot of baggage and does a lot of work—often in ways that are different than what the New Testament teaches. Read More
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Marks of a Biblical Church Part 1: What Makes a Church a Church?
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