Not exact matches
I'm convinced that God want us to go beyond church as usual to the New
Testament concept of
ekklesia.
If you like reading technical stuff about the church, read the entry on «
ekklesia» in the Theological Dictionary of the New
Testament.
Our heavenly Father established the court in the Greek Septuagint, the Old
Testament «
Ekklesia» for the New
Testament spiritual warfare made against the Gates of Hell though conduct of
Ekklesia.
My experience and study has taught me that the word «church» (i.e.
ekklesia) in the New
Testament has a pretty loose definition.
The word
ekklesia in the New
Testament is also used to refer to synagogue.
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.