Is your sister a library?

  • Christian Chat is a moderated online Christian community allowing Christians around the world to fellowship with each other in real time chat via webcam, voice, and text, with the Christian Chat app. You can also start or participate in a Bible-based discussion here in the Christian Chat Forums, where members can also share with each other their own videos, pictures, or favorite Christian music.

    If you are a Christian and need encouragement and fellowship, we're here for you! If you are not a Christian but interested in knowing more about Jesus our Lord, you're also welcome! Want to know what the Bible says, and how you can apply it to your life? Join us!

    To make new Christian friends now around the world, click here to join Christian Chat.
notuptome

notuptome

Senior Member
#21
May 17, 2013
15,050
2,538
113
#21
More love to Thee O Christ more love to Thee.

You cannot win souls to Christ if you have no love for Christ. Out on the highways and byways of life even in the church we are to be a testimony of Gods saving grace in Jesus Christ. Pointing to the broken body and blood of Christ given to atone for their sins as well as mine. No need to perish in the eternal fires of hell when Jesus will save you if you only allow Him. Jesus delights in saving souls.

For the cause of Christ
Roger
 
Yet

Yet

Banned
#22
Jan 4, 2014
3,756
69
0
#22
Ekklesia appears 114 times in the NT and always means the people, the saints.

Tyndale in his English translation rightfully used the word congregation for ecclesia.
The King James translators used the word 'church'. It is derived from the Greek word, kuriakon. Belonging to the Lord. In time it took on the meaning of a physical building.

Clement of Alexandria was the first to use the phrase 'go to church'. That term not in NT.

Until the year 300 there were no church buildings. Constantine married Christianity with paganism and up sprang 'church' buildings along with the clerical system heretofore not part of the ekklesiastical paradigm.
The saints did not worry about persecution so much. Paul knew exactly where the home fellowships were.

This was the early beginnings of the Catholic Church. Martin Luther broke free from it in the 16th century dropping all things pagan except for the cathedral thinkology and the clerical system.

These thoughts from Viola's 'Pagan Christianity'.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.