Sentences with phrase «ekklesia church»

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The word Church is not actually found in the bible, but is translated from the greek word «ekklesia» and hebrew word «Knesiyah».

In our English Bible the Greek word, «ekklesia» is translated in most places «church.»

From what little I have read so far of Jeremy's writings, it seems he understands that the institutions of «The Church» and «Christianity» are not the true ekklesia of God, just as the nation called «Israel» was not the true «Israel» of God.

I'm convinced that God want us to go beyond church as usual to the New Testament concept of ekklesia.

The Relationship God Has Always Wanted With You — Wayne Jacobsen The Naked Church — Wayne Jacobsen This Is My Body: Ekklesia As God Intended — Keith Giles Pagan Christianity — Frank Viola & George Barna Reimagining Church — Frank Viola

The Ekklesia Project and Hauerwas's followers generally respond to this critique by insisting that there is a variety of «publics,» and that the nation - state is not the premier one for the church.

The Ekklesia Project has also produced about a dozen booklets, with more to come, on specific practices of the church, such as preparing for marriage, hymn - singing, reading scripture, evangelizing and so on.

The Ekklesia Project, begun in 1999, is something of an attempt to answer that question and close the gap between Hauerwas's academic project and the concrete life of churches.

Our Latin forefathers translated ekklesia as «kuriokos» (church).

Yes, maybe it would have been better to leave it alone... But then, if they had, probably the word «ekklesia» would have just as much baggage today as does the word «church.»

I do not think that Christology = Ecclesiology, because I do not think that Christ = the Ekklesia (church).

Church just has too many meanings to it like Rome is a ekklesia not a church (I see the word church as a biulding like the word oChurch just has too many meanings to it like Rome is a ekklesia not a church (I see the word church as a biulding like the word ochurch (I see the word church as a biulding like the word ochurch as a biulding like the word oikos).

If you like reading technical stuff about the church, read the entry on «ekklesia» in the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.

Ekklesia, the Greek word for church, describes the democratic assembly of full citizens responsible for the welfare of the city - state.

Institutional church and God's Ekklesia are completely opposite things.

Only when women understand ourselves as church and not just as passive bystanders in the church can we reclaim the church as the ekklesia of women.

But it helped me get on to the next phase of my life, leaving Institutional Church and finding alternative ways of being ekklesia.

Church, I.e ekklesia, are individual believers, that meet at a local fellowship (which is corporate).

I have also written a book about it called «Beyond Church: An Invitation To Experience The Lost Word Of The Bible — Ekklesia» available on Amazon @ http://amzn.to/2bdVn24.

Often in distinction to ekklesia, the whole catholic church, paroikia as parish came to signify the persistent dwelling of the individual congregation.14

The word «ekklesia» («church») is a collective, like the English words crowd or team.

In the same way, one person can not be called «ekklesia» («church»).

I believe the problem stems from the whole concept of «church» or «circe» which replaced the term ekklesia.

God's people are the Ekklesia not a man made church building with an institutional religious structure running it.

It is perhaps worth noting that the English word «church» was first used as a translation of «ekklesia» in the Geneva Bible of 1560.

My experience and study has taught me that the word «church» (i.e. ekklesia) in the New Testament has a pretty loose definition.

In the third and last volume of his Dogmatics, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith and the Consummation, his basic hermeneutic principle is evident in the way he treats faith in the context of the ekklesia, the ekklesia being the presupposition of faith.

I sometimes encountered Jesus in the «church», but He's always out here in the Ekklesia.

My view of what church is has changed over the years from «church» to the biblical meaning ekklesia or gathering.

The very work ekklesia which the New Testament uses for «church» comes from the Greek Old Testament where it is used to describe the whole «assembly» of Israel.

The authority of Scripture, dogma, organization, and theological reasoning that once constituted the church, the ekklesia, has waned to the point of inconsequentiality for most Christians trying to make sense of their existence.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Supporters of the campaign include the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

several articles from the Web give different perspectives on the way that translating ekklesia as church (a word that is derived from Kuriakon) has distorted the meaning of the Bible and given power to the institution, not the people.

The word «church» in the Bible is a mistranslation of the Greek word «ekklesia.»