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Introduction: What is Church
(NLT)
(1) Praise the LORD!
I will thank the LORD with all my heart as I meet with his godly people.
(2) How amazing are the deeds of the LORD!
All who delight in him should ponder them.
(3) Everything he does reveals his glory and majesty.
His righteousness never fails.
(4) He causes us to remember his wonderful works.
How gracious and merciful is our LORD!
(5) He gives food to those who fear him; he always remembers his covenant.
(6) He has shown his great power to his people by giving them the lands of other nations.
(7) All he does is just and good, and all his commandments are trustworthy.
(8) They are forever true, to be obeyed faithfully and with integrity.
(9) He has paid a full ransom for his people.
He has guaranteed his covenant with them forever.
What a holy, awe-inspiring name he has!
(10) Fear of the LORD is the foundation of true wisdom.
All who obey his commandments will grow in wisdom.
Praise him forever!
What is Church?
When I was having a coffee with Don on Monday morning I shared with him that I wanted to preach about this new and exciting ministry Epsom Community Care.
However I did not know where I was going to come from, I had all of these ideas bouncing around, yet there was no clarity.
Then Don’s phone rang.
As he was talking with someone, God spoke to me.
What is Church?
Epsom Community Care is a ministry of the church, and it is primarily a ministry of us caring for one another.
What is Church?
When you think about church what do you think of?
What is Church?
· Is Church the building?
· Is the Church the people?
· Is Church the Steeple
· Is the church something else?
In the Psalm we heard read earlier, the psalmist sings:
(ESV)
Praise the LORD!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation.
KN Paraphrase
Halleluiah – Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the fellowship of other believers, in my worshipping Community!
Halleluiah – Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart, in the fellowship of other believers, in my worshipping Community!
This Psalm is an acrostic psalm with the first verse beginning with Halleluiah.
And then each of the lines acrostically follow the Hebrew Alphabet.
Since Acrostics were on my mind,
I thought I would answer the question: What is Church?
with an Acrostic of my own
1.
Community
The English word church has its origins in ancient Greek, but not in the way that I expected.
Our English word for church comes from the biblical Greek word kyrios – Lord.
The church is the “Lord’s House”
church
■ noun
1 a building used for public Christian worship.
2 (Church) a particular Christian organization with its own distinctive doctrines.
3 institutionalized religion as a political or social force: the separation of church and state.
■ verb archaic take (a woman who has recently given birth) to church for a service of thanksgiving.
—ORIGIN Old English cir(i)ce, cyr (i)ce, based on medieval Greek kurikon, from Greek kuriakon (dōma) ‘Lord’s (house)’, from kurios ‘master or lord’.[1]
However as a student of the original languages of the Bible, the word that the bible translators have translated as church in our Bibles is the word
Ecclesia.
(In the original Greek and then the Latin translations kept ecclesia)
· Ecclesia is a gathering of people, an assembly, a community.
Jesus gives us this wonderful peace of wisdom that describes what an ecclesia is:
(NLT)
For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”
When I think about what is the church, and those words of Jesus, Church is a little bit like a babushka doll.
· We have the global church we belong to.
· We have the church in Australia
· And the Church in Bendigo
· Then we have our faith community here in Epsom
· And within our church there are churches nested.
· Small groups.
· KYB
· Men that walk around the lake,
· And even in those groups there are sub gatherings. 2 or three may be talking and sharing or praying with one another.
Even our family unit is intended to be a church, a community.
In the creation story, God creates Adam, and says:
(NLT)
(18) Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.
I will make a helper who is just right for him.”
We are created to live in community, and the church is a model of that perfected community that God intends for us to live in.
Even when I come back to that passage in
(NLT)
For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them.”
What we often fail to notice is the context Jesus quotes this passage in.
It is in the context of a kyrios community – The Lord’s community with Jesus preparing his disciples how to handle conflict and disagreement within the community – within the church.
If you have a Bible beside you what is the section heading that comes under:
· If your brother sins against you
· Restoring a brother
· Dealing with sin in the church
· Correcting another believer
(NLT)
(15) “If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense.
If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.
(16) But if you are unsuccessful, take one or two others with you and go back again, so that everything you say may be confirmed by two or three witnesses.
(17) If the person still refuses to listen, take your case to the church.
Then if he or she won’t accept the church’s decision, treat that person as a pagan or a corrupt tax collector.
(18) “I tell you the truth, whatever you forbid on earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven.
(19) “I also tell you this: If two of you agree here on earth concerning anything you ask, my Father in heaven will do it for you.
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