Good Morning!! Define the word Church,...ask
any number of people, even those that attend regularly and you will get
several different answers. The best definition every, is found here in
Deuteronomy 4: the church is the assembly of God's people.
Moses is reminding the Israelites, long after the event, that he had
been told to convene a meeting at Sinai between them and God. In Acts 7
Stephen calls this " the church in the wilderness."
...Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.—Deuteronomy 4:10 (KJV)
The church is not a building or a denomination or an organization, but people,...God's people.
Next, these are people rescued, or seeking to be rescued by God, who
then provides for their needs and leads them in his ways. Finally, they
are guests invited to come together to hear him speak words
for them to take in, respond to, and pass on, concerning himself and his
plans for them.
Church as it ought to be found in the dictionary:
Church (n) A fellowship of God's people listening to him and responding in united praise, prayer, service, and testimony.
" If the church can stay focused on God's Will, and God's Ways,...nothing can stop it from accomplishing His purposes in its communities, towns and cities."
(The Man God Uses, Henry & Tom Blackaby, p. 126)
"Too many believers, who profess faith in Christ, have never surrendered themselves to the control of the Holy Spirit."
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