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Metaphors of the Church: The Bride of Christ
The Church is never directly called the Bride of Christ, but the metaphor is made indirectly. Paul, speaking of the Corinthian local church says, 2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised
Continue reading...Metaphors of the Church: A Kingdom of Priests
Yahweh brought the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt and led them to Mount Sinai to give them the Law and enter into covenant with them. He told Moses to tell the people, 5 Now if you obey me fully and
Continue reading...Metaphors of the Church: The Temple
When Jacob was fleeing from his brother and had a dream of a stairway to heaven and a promise from God, he named the place where this happened The House of God, that is, Bethel, because, he said, “Surely
Continue reading...Metaphors of the Church: The Body of Christ
We love stories of people taking over another person’s body, for humorous or dramatic ends (think Big, Freaky Friday, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Face/Off). We also are drawn to stories about
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Should We Have Church Membership Rolls and Requirements
May I suggest that it is impossible not to have “church membership” in the abstract, if not in the concrete. My local congregation is going to be delimited by my own sense of who belongs to it, whether
Continue reading...Metaphors of the Church: The People of God
When Yahweh called Abraham and gave him a promise, there were already identifiable peoples, masses of humans who belonged together, nations we would say, and ethnic groups, and cultural groups. So God
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Should They Still Apply Today? The Question of the Local Church
In my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, there are over 2,000 churches. None of these churches is governed by one local Christian governing body, none of them submit themselves to the others in doctrine and
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Should They Still Apply Today? The Eastern Orthodox Answer
Wikipedia notes: The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Should They Still Apply Today? The Roman Catholic Answer
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.378 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2021. It is among the world’s oldest and largest
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Local, House, True Church, Professing Church
Jesus and the apostles could think of the church as the universal church (all believers, living and dead, past, present, or future, in heaven or on earth), the church worldwide (all living believers around
Continue reading...New Testament Concepts of the Christian Ekklesia – Universal, Worldwide, and Regional
Our English word “church” (and the German “kirche” and Scottish “kirk”) comes from the Greek word kuriake, meaning ‘belonging to the Lord’. It is only used twice in the New Testament,
Continue reading...The Ekklesia
It was a raucous, angry, confused meeting, with many people shouting, many people in stunned silence, and no order at all. It could have been a local church business meeting, but it wasn’t. It was
Continue reading...Glorious and Depraved (7): Humans as Workers/Creators
From a scientific standpoint, “work is the energy transferred to or from an object via the application of force along a displacement” and its International Systems Unit (SI unit) is the joule
Continue reading...Christian View of the Body
In August 1992, Helena Christensen and Michael Hutchence, founder and lead singer of INXS, were walking late at night on a street in Copenhagen after drinking heavily when he refused to move for a taxi.
Continue reading...C. S. Lewis on Defense of the Faith (part seven)
In 1945, C. S. Lewis was invited to address a gathering of Welsh Anglican priests and youth workers on the subject of Christian apologetics. Here are his remarks, published in the book, God in the Dock,
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