Kyrkan

Vad är "kyrkan" och vad är "församling"? Och vad menar vi egentligen när vi använder de begreppen? Kan det vara så att vi definierar dem för snävt ibland?


"The Church

TGIF Today God Is First Volume 2 by Os Hillman
Wednesday, September 24 2014

"Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you" (Lev 26:8).

The Church is called to impact the world. The biblical definition "church" is not an institution or building, but rather it is made up of individuals. Jesus said "wherever two or more meet together, I am in the midst of them." The biblical word translated as "church" is ekklesia which is the original Greek meaning "the people of God."

The New Testament used this word in two different ways. Sometimes it refers to people of God gathered together in congregations. That is our traditional idea of the local church. But other times it means believers in general, wherever they might find themselves. "

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