New Testament Church is older than the New Testament Bible

[nl]

The New Testament Church is older than the New Testament Bible.

The New Testament Church was founded by the Lord Jesus Christ and began its mission of evangelism when the Holy Spirit was given on the Day of Pentecost.

The New Testament Bible required:

• Decades to be written
• Centuries to be confirmed as the 27 Books of the New Testament Canon
• 1.5 Millennia to be printed by the first printing presses

You don't need the New Testament Bible to have a New Testament Church.

In Matthew 28, Jesus spoke to the eleven Apostles (Judas was dead from among the Twelve) and told them to go into all the world and make disciples, teach, baptize.

If He had wanted, Jesus could have told the Eleven to go to their desks and write the Bible . Instead, He told them to go into the world and make disciples. Writing the Bible could wait but making disciples was to be done without delay.

 

[Marcelo]

You're right - the Early Church worked perfectly well without the written New Testament because they were Spirit Led. Today many Christians are guided only by the letter as if the Bible were a read-and-do manual.

 

[Dan58]

You don't need the New Testament Bible to have a New Testament Church.

Kind of a circular argument... Yes, the church was established by eye witnesses (Apostles), who preached the gospel. But their written record (New Testament), was necessary to preserve the Truth.. Word of mouth alone, tends to change from generation to generation. Without the NT, we all might be following the Gnostic gospels today... jmo

 

[Willie-T]

I once read that if it had not been for the sidetracking of deciding to develop and organize a new "Religion", the work of spreading the gospel to all the world would have been completed in something like 18 years.

 

[phil36]

What the OP is saying is that we do not need the word of God.... just another attack on God's authoritative word.

Yet, without the word there would be no Salvation.

Romans 10:17 - So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

 

[p_rehbein]

Actually, about the same time the Apostles began to preach the Gospel, they began to write Letters of Instruction/Teaching to various churches....and these Letters became the Epistles we know as the New Testament Bible. These Letters were widely circulated throughout all believers/churches/Cities.

It took decades for some folks to get together and combine all of these into what we know as the New Testament Bible, but the Scriptures themselves were around for a very long time. Soon after Pentecost. Thus........the Written Word was pretty much right there at the start of the founding of the Church at Jerusalem and other Cities/Regions.

IMHO

 

[notuptome]

The apostles preached Jesus as Messiah from the OT scriptures. You can do the same thing today but the NT fills in all the mysteries and makes clear the gospel message.

In fact if you witness to a Jewish person you will need to share Christ from the OT as they still will not accept the NT.

For the cause of Christ
Roger

 

[nl]

There was a blind beggar once near Jericho when Jesus walked nearby.

Jesus asked him what he wanted Jesus to do. The blind beggar said that he wanted to see and was saved from his blindness. No written word was involved. The blind beggar wouldn't have been able to read it. Jesus saved him (Luke 18).