Sentences with phrase «of ekklesia»

Symon Hill is a tutor for the Workers» Educational Association and an associate of the Ekklesia thinktank.

Troeltsch sought to accept the critical methods of modern thought and to acknowledge their devastating consequences for the structures of ekklesia but also «to preserve Christianity as redemption through faith's constantly renewed personal knowledge of God.

In The First Urban Christians (1983) Meeks tells the story of Jesus groups founded by Paul, focusing on their «urban» environment, their social life and the formation of their ekklesia, governance, ritual, patterns of belief and patterns of life.

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.

Give generously with joy to your local food pantries, homeless shelters and widows as a family member of the Ekklesia and as the Spirit of God would lead you.

I do like what you are saying in principle Chris, the idea of ekklesia being gathering of God's people.

In this case, again, the person who is part of the ekklesia is not alone, since in this usage the term refers to more than one person.

Justice defines the nature and mission of the ekklesia.

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.

Ephesians 5:22 - 24 The women to the / their men are being subject just as they are being to The Master; (recognizing) that the man is source / head of the woman just as Christ is the Head of the ekklesia and He is savior of the body; even as the ekklesia is being subject to The Christ, so the women are being subject to the / their men in all (things).

Many are tempted (as Terry seems above) to introduce various structures & sectarian qualifiers to the plain meaning of ekklesia as a function.

As a matter of fact «megachurch» is a sickness, kind of abnormal growth of the ekklesia.

NP, that's the first time I've heard that particular definition of ekklesia.

I have been searching all my adult life for the biblical concept of ekklesia — a gathering led by the presence of God where ordinary people are free to share and minister to one another according to 1 Corinthians 14:26.

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

Not exact matches

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.

As you are aware, the ekklesia is not identified as the building or a formal organisation, but the «body of Christ», those individuals that esteem Him above all things and submit to HIS governance of their lives, which will of course lead them / us to serving all those that seek to know Him and His purposes.

Nympha and her husband are wealthy traders, both of them followers of Jesus, but he travels so much she usually manages our ekklesia — our gathering — on her own.

After several such stories, it became clear that the Ekklesia Project is in part about hagiography in the best sense — telling the stories of the saints so future saints might be encouraged.

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.

(For more information, see my posts «The ekklesia of Josephus» and «The ekklesia in context.»)

However, these subsets are never set against one another; they remain part of the larger ekklesia.

In some cases, the term ekklesia refers to all of God's people which he has «assembled» or «gathered» out of the world.

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

Instead, the term ekklesia always referred to an assembly of people.

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

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.

Certainly these may also be regarded «ekklesia»; gathering for teaching of philosophy and weekly administrations in hollow religious exercise.

Paul isn't just delivering a list of «do's» and «do nt's», he is prescribing for the ekklesia ideal & indelible functionality; akin to describing how fresh fruit may be prevented from rolling off a table.

Among men whom I interact with while visiting ekklesia, it is most usual for a man to hear what a woman is saying within the framework of where she is; to be hearing a man as where he may be coming [going].

We simple don't see Paul chastising anyone because that person stepped out of their rolls (i.e., age, gender, graces...) However, Paul does remind all present in ekklesia not to press the women to do what would be adverse to all that the sisters had chosen in their righteousness.

In doing so, God's people would be lead into a «gathering» (Ekklesia) of the Body of Christ that would transcend the logical benefits of having a physical place to see and retreat to.

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

After this, he basically asks, «Of which type is the NT ekklesia?»

The ekklesia of Acts 2 did not function that way.

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

He even goes into detail on the various places in Scripture which seem to refer to only a physical gathering (e.g., «the ekklesia in Rome»), and shows how even there, the physical gathering is representative of the entire spiritual gathering.

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

When WE, His Ekklesia, His Body, His Disciples, can go directly to Jesus, God, The Word of God, The Holy Spirit, The Spirit of Truth, to learn about Jesus?

The Greek noun ekklesia means an assembly of any kind.

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.

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association Peter Cave, Chair, Humanist Philosophers Professor Richard Norman, University of Kent Nasreen Rehman, British Muslims for Secular Democracy Dilwar Hussain, Policy Research Centre, Islamic Foundation Simon Barrow, Ekklesia Nick Spencer, Theos