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ETYMOLOGY: The study of the origin and history of words One morning, while at breakfast, I was making a list of basic thought-provoking questions. The first question that I listed was, “How does the Bible define the church?” So I began to check out a few resources. I did a web search for the etymology of the word “church”.
It should be noted that the OT church was a separate organization from the state of Israel or Judah. It was possible to be a member of the state without being a member of the church. E.g., The term “cut off from the congregation” sometimes refers to excommunication from the church privileges, as with lepers.
I. The origin of the Bible: A. The Bible is God-breathed—2 Tim. 3:16: 1. This tells us that the Scripture did not come out of man’s thought, man’s mind, but rather, it is God’s breathing His thought and His word through His Spirit into and out of the writers; hence, the Bible contains God’s elements and carries His flavor. 2.
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and undergraduate students) and student pastors in Bible College spurred the passion for church history and the vision and mission to disseminate the knowledge among Christians. The vision is simply a scholarly reconstruction of the history of the origin, growth, and development of the early church amidst seas of persecutions and heresies
iv PREFACE Outlines and study series are nothing new. Many have appeared; and many have vanished because of their lack of usability. The outlines on "The New Testament Church" that appear on the following page s
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The Beginnings of the Church, Frederick J. Cwiekowski (with a foreword by Raymond E. Brown, S.S.), Paulist Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8091-2926-4 • The Jews in the Time of Jesus: An Introduction, Stephen M. Wylen, Paulist Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8091-3610-4 • The Bible (Some readers find that an online version allows quick searches for the
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In its largest sense, the church is universal—the community of all people who profess faith in Christ. This is what is meant by the term “catholic,” with a lowercase "c," which simply means “universal.” In its most intimate sense, the church is “wherever two or three are gathered” in the name of Christ (Matthew 18:20).
