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Feature Pages(5+)
- FeatureThe Church — what we believeThe church is not a building or an event but a people — everyone God has called out of the world and joined to Jesus — gathered in local congregations to worship, to be taught, to love one another, and to carry the good news to everybody else.
- FeatureChurch History — the great cloud of witnessesTwo thousand years of the church: ten eras, the martyrs, reformers, missionaries, and revivalists who ran the race before us.
- FeatureThe Apostolic Age (to AD 100) — church historyThis is the church's first breath. The men and women who had walked with Jesus took His message out of Jerusalem, and within one lifetime it reached the capital of the world.
- FeatureThe Martyrs' Church (AD 100–313) — church historyFor two hundred years, being a Christian could cost you your life. This is the era when the church had no legal standing, no power, and no protection — and, for most of it, no building of its own. It grew anyway.
- FeatureThe Fathers & the Creeds (AD 313–600) — church historyThe persecution stopped and the arguments started. In these three centuries the church put into careful words who Jesus is — and recognized which books were Scripture.
Verses(5+)
- VersePhilippians 3:6as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.
- VerseActs 20:17From Miletus, Paul sent to Ephesus for the elders of the church.
- Verse1 Peter 5:13The church in Babylon, chosen together with you, sends you greetings, as does my son Mark.
- VerseEphesians 5:32This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
- VerseActs 5:11And great fear came over the whole church and all who heard about these events.
Words (Strong's)(5+)
- WordG1577 ἐκκλησία · ekklēsía (Greek)a calling out, i.e. (concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation (Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both)
- WordG2417 ἱερόσυλος · hierósylos (Greek)a temple-despoiler
- WordG4864 συναγωγή · synagōgḗ (Greek)an assemblage of persons
- WordG4622 Σιών · Siṓn (Greek)Sion (i.e. Tsijon), a hill of Jerusalem
- WordG1985 ἐπίσκοπος · epískopos (Greek)a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively)
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Apocrypha (study resources)(1)
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G1577ἐκκλησία ekklēsía — a calling out, i.e.
(concretely) a popular meeting, especially a religious congregation
(Jewish synagogue, or Christian community of members on earth or
saints in heaven or both)G2417ἱερόσυλος hierósylos — a temple-despoilerG4864συναγωγή synagōgḗ — an assemblage of personsG4622Σιών Siṓn — Sion (i.e. Tsijon), a hill of JerusalemG1985ἐπίσκοπος epískopos — a superintendent, i.e.
Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church
(literally or figuratively)G2941κυβέρνησις kybérnēsis — pilotage, i.e.
(figuratively) directorship (in the church)