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Church names 4 things on this site
- Church, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Church History: the great cloud of witnesses, a featured study.Two thousand years of the church: ten eras, the martyrs, reformers, missionaries, and revivalists who ran the race before us.
- Church history, a subject the site gathers pages under.Kinds of study · What happened after Acts: two thousand years of it.
- Church and State, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Featured studies
35 results- StudyThe ChurchA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe 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…
- StudyChurch 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.
- StudyThe 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.
- StudyThe 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…
Subjects
3 resultsVerses
108 results- 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.
People
7 results- PersonPhoebeA deaconess of the church at Cenchreae whom Paul commended, and the likely carrier of the letter to the Romans (Rom 16:1-2).
- PersonPriscillaA tentmaker and teacher who, with her husband Aquila, instructed Apollos and hosted a church — Paul's coworker (Rom 16:3; Acts 18).
- PersonEpaphrasColossae's founding evangelist, the beloved fellow-servant from whom the church learned the gospel (Col 1:7), always striving in prayer for the Lycus Valley churches (4:12-13)…
- PersonPhilemonColossian believer with a church in his house, owner of Onesimus, recipient of Paul's most personal canonical letter — refreshing the hearts of the saints (Phlm 7).
- PersonMary, Mother of JesusThe virgin of Nazareth who bore Jesus the Messiah by the Holy Spirit; sang the Magnificat; kept these things in her heart; stood at the cross and was among the praying church…
Places
7 results- PlaceColossaeA small city of the Lycus Valley in Phrygia whose church Epaphras founded and Paul never visited, and which received one of his letters.
- PlaceCenchreaeThe eastern harbor of Corinth, home of the deaconess Phoebe and a small church (Rom 16:1).
- PlaceCorinthThe Greek port city from which Paul wrote Romans during his three-month stay, and home of the church of 1–2 Corinthians.
- PlaceRomeThe capital of the empire and home of the mixed Jewish and Gentile church to which Paul wrote Romans, and where he later arrived in chains.
- PlaceAntioch (Syrian)Third city of the Roman empire and the first great Gentile church; where the disciples were first called Christians and every Pauline mission was launched and reported.
Manuscripts
2 results- ManuscriptCodex VercellensisThe oldest surviving Gospels in Latin — from before Jerome, in the rough translation the Latin churches were already using.
- ManuscriptPapyrus Bodmer III (the Bohairic John)The oldest manuscript of the Coptic dialect that became the Egyptian church's liturgical Bible — a complete Gospel of John from the fourth century.
Words (Strong's)
6 results- 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). The Greek word…
- WordG4622 Σιών · Siṓn (Greek)Sion (i.e. Tsijon), a hill of Jerusalem. The Greek word stands 7 times in the original text.
- WordG2417 ἱερόσυλος · hierósylos (Greek)a temple-despoiler. The Greek word stands 1 time in the original text.
- WordG4864 συναγωγή · synagōgḗ (Greek)an assemblage of persons. The Greek word stands 56 times in the original text.
- WordG1985 ἐπίσκοπος · epískopos (Greek)a superintendent, i.e. Christian officer in genitive case charge of a (or the) church (literally or figuratively). The Greek word stands 5 times in the original text.
Themes
13 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeWorshipScripture's worship vocabulary carries two roots held together: *shachah* (to bow down, prostrate) and *abad* (to serve, to labor for). *Shachah* is first rendered "worship" at…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
- ThemeSufferingSuffering enters the story at the Fall. Genesis 3 turns childbirth into pain and labor into toil, and the rest of the Old Testament treats hardship as the ordinary texture of…
Topics
3 resultsProphecies
1 resultApologetics
1 resultVoices
18 results- VoiceTroy BrewerTroy A. Brewer (born 1964, Texas) is the senior pastor of OpenDoor Church (Burleson, Texas, just outside Fort Worth), a non-denominational charismatic-evangelical congregation…
- VoicePseudo-BarnabasPseudo-Barnabas (d. ~132). Early Church (pseudonymous) voice from the church's historical commentary tradition, present in MannaFest's quote pool with source citations. Full…
- VoicePope PontianPontian was elected bishop of Rome on 21 July 230. We know the day because a Roman document called the Liberian Catalogue, compiled in 354 from official church records, gives…
- VoiceJohn BurkeJohn Burke is an American evangelical pastor, author, and speaker. He is the founder (1998) and former lead pastor of Gateway Church (Austin, Texas) — a multi-site church grown…
- VoiceJane HamonJane Hamon is an American Charismatic apostolic-prophetic teacher, author, and senior leader (with her husband Tom Hamon) of Vision Church @ Christian International (Santa Rosa…
Apocrypha (study resources)
1 resultDoorways
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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)G4622Σιών Siṓn — Sion (i.e. Tsijon), a hill of JerusalemG2417ἱερόσυλος hierósylos — a temple-despoilerG4864συναγωγή synagōgḗ — an assemblage of personsG1985ἐπίσκοπος 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)