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Refining Our Concept of the Church (Universal)

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  • Is Christ’s church the means or result of salvation?
  • “Church” refers to saved people
    • Ephesians 5:23,25-27; Hebrews 12:22-29
    • ekklesia = “called out ones” (group)
    • Collective noun
      • a team of players; a herd of cows
      • Ephesians 5:29-30; I Corinthians 12:27-28
      • “Church” refers to (collects) saved people.
      • The Bible uses “church” in several ways:
        • Universal sense – saved people everywhere
        • Local sense – saved people joined together in a certain area to do spiritual work.
        • Assembled sense
        • Be loyal to Christ, not the “church”
          • The church does not save. It is the saved.
          • Acts 2:4,11,14,36-38,41-47
          • People were first saved by Christ in Acts 2, and so the church began in Acts 2.
          • What do we mean when???
            • “He’s a church of Christ preacher”
            • “I’m church of Christ”
            • “Our family is church of Christ”
            • “I’m a church of Christ-er”
            • Those who follow Christ are called the “church.”
            • The church (universal) is composed of individual Christians, not local churches. (I Corinthians 12:27,13)
              • Acts 8:38; III John 1:10
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