Sentences with phrase «ekklesia means»
The Greek noun ekklesia means an assembly of any kind.
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Ekklesia is the greek word which means «a calling together.»
And I didn't mean to sound as if I thought that was your definition for «ekklesia» or that you were being unfair, I'm sure that's been preached many places and that was what I felt was unfair.
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 oikos).
Many are tempted (as Terry seems above) to introduce various structures & sectarian qualifiers to the plain meaning of ekklesia as a function.
By all means, go ahead and meet that way if you choose, but be honest and call it what it is, a Christian club, not God's Ekklesia.
My view of what church is has changed over the years from «church» to the biblical meaning ekklesia or gathering.
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.