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1577. ekklesia -- an assembly, a (religious) congregation
... of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: ekklesia Phonetic Spelling:
(ek-klay-see'-ah) Short Definition: an assembly, congregation, church Definition: ...
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4864. sunagoge -- a bringing together, by ext. an assembling ...
... an assemblage of persons; specially, a Jewish "synagogue" (the meeting or the place);
by analogy, a Christian church -- assembly, congregation, synagogue. ...
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1985. episkopos -- a superintendent, an overseer
... life), overseer, supervisor, ruler, especially used with reference to the supervising
function exercised by an elder or presbyter of a church or congregation. ...
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Matthew 16:18
And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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Matthew 18:17
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be to you as an heathen man and a publican.
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Acts 2:47
Praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
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1 Corinthians 11:18
For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
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1 Corinthians 14:19,23,28,33,34
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
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1 Corinthians 15:9
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
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Galatians 1:13
For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
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Library

Church Discipline.
... [738] Upon sincere repentance, the fallen one is restored to the communion of the
church. The act of discipline is that of the whole congregation in the name ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 63 church discipline.htm

The Church and Her Mission, or the Three Constitutional Synods ...
... vested in the General Synod; that this General Synod should consist of all bishops
and ministers of the Church and of duly elected congregation deputies; that ...
/.../hutton/history of the moravian church/chapter i the church and.htm

A Pure Church an Increasing Church
... Suppose this church and congregation bore stamped upon it, plain and deep as the
broad arrow of the king, these characteristics"manifest fraternal unity ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture the acts/a pure church an increasing.htm

The Worship of the Church. The Religion of the Primitive ...
... [465:1] In the church, as well as in the synagogue, the whole congregation joined
in the singing; [465:2] but instrumental music was never brought into ...
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On the Church and Its Head
... We may be permitted, therefore, to define the Christian church, "A congregation
of believers, who have been called by the saving vocation of God from the state ...
/.../arminius/the works of james arminius vol 1/disputation 18 on the church.htm

Epistle Lxiii. To Epictetus and to the Congregation of Assuræ ...
... Argument."He Warns Epictetus and the Congregation of the Assuritans Not to Allow ...
depart from entreating the Lord, nor forsake the Catholic Church, which has ...
/.../cyprian/the epistles of cyprian/epistle lxiii to epictetus and.htm

Of the Church
... "The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure
word of God is preached, and the sacraments be duly administered.". ...
/.../wesley/sermons on several occasions/sermon 74 of the church.htm

On the Church
... A. The Church is the congregation of all those who profess the faith of Christ,
partake of the same Sacraments, and are governed by their lawful pastors under ...
/.../kinkead/baltimore catechism no 4/lesson 11 on the church.htm

The Church of Jerusalem and the Labors of Peter.
... N. York, 1879. The congregation of Jerusalem became the mother church of
Jewish Christianity, and thus of all Christendom. It grew ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 25 the church of.htm

The Organization of the Apostolic Church.
... Those who hold that every congregation, however small, is a complete church in itself,
are quite unable to explain why the system of ecclesiastical ...
/.../killen/the ancient church/chapter iii the organization of.htm