I will be writing a blog on this topic later on this weekend. I will love to have believers/ unbelievers perspectives of what church means to you once I write the blog.
STRONGS NT 1577: ἐκκλησία
ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλεσιας, ἡ (from ἔκκλητος called out or forth, and this from ἐκκαλέω); properly, a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place; an assembly; so used1. among the Greeks from Thucydides (cf. Herodotus 3, 142) down,an assembly of the people convened at the public place of council for the purpose of deliberating: Acts 19:39.
2. in the Sept. often equivalent to קָהָל, the assembly of the Israelites, Judges 21:8; 1 Chronicles 29:1, etc., especially when gathered for sacred purposes, Deuteronomy 31:30 (Deuteronomy 32:1); Joshua 8:35 (Joshua 9:8), etc.; in the N. T. thus in Acts 7:38;Hebrews 2:12.
3. any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance or tumultuously: Acts 19:32, 41.
4. in the Christian sense,
a. an assembly of Christians gathered for worship: ἐνἐκκλησία, in the religious meeting, 1 Corinthians 14:19, 35; ἐνταῖς ἐκκλησίαις, 1 Corinthians 14:34; συνέρχεσθαι ἐνἐκκλησία, 1 Corinthians 11:18; cf. Winers Grammar, § 50, 4a.
STRONGS NT 1577: ἐκκλησία
ἐκκλησία, ἐκκλεσιας, ἡ (from ἔκκλητος called out or forth, and this from ἐκκαλέω); properly, a gathering of citizens called out from their homes into some public place; an assembly; so used1. among the Greeks from Thucydides (cf. Herodotus 3, 142) down,an assembly of the people convened at the public place of council for the purpose of deliberating: Acts 19:39.
2. in the Sept. often equivalent to קָהָל, the assembly of the Israelites, Judges 21:8; 1 Chronicles 29:1, etc., especially when gathered for sacred purposes, Deuteronomy 31:30 (Deuteronomy 32:1); Joshua 8:35 (Joshua 9:8), etc.; in the N. T. thus in Acts 7:38;Hebrews 2:12.
3. any gathering or throng of men assembled by chance or tumultuously: Acts 19:32, 41.
4. in the Christian sense,
a. an assembly of Christians gathered for worship: ἐνἐκκλησία, in the religious meeting, 1 Corinthians 14:19, 35; ἐνταῖς ἐκκλησίαις, 1 Corinthians 14:34; συνέρχεσθαι ἐνἐκκλησία, 1 Corinthians 11:18; cf. Winers Grammar, § 50, 4a.
