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    Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church?
    Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church?
    Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church?
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    Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church?

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    What does the Bible mean when it talks about the Church? What are the roots, the history, of the Church? What sets apart people whom God calls His own? How does God use the Church to achieve His purposes? What does the Church do for you, and what should its members do for the Church? How can you be part of what God is doing through His Church?
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    Release dateNov 9, 2011
    ISBN9781105229398
    Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church?
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    United Church of God

    The mission of the United Church of God is to proclaim to the world the little-understood gospel taught by Jesus Christ—the good news of the coming Kingdom of God—and to prepare a people for that Kingdom. This message not only offers great hope for all of humanity, but encompasses the purpose of human existence—why we are here and where our world is headed.

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      Bible Study Lesson 10 - What Is the Church? - United Church of God

      Church?

      A Reminder

      To gain the most from this lesson, be sure to look up all the scriptural references listed and not directly quoted in the text. They are cited to expand your understanding of this crucial subject. You can enhance your understanding even more by looking up, in your own Bible, the scriptural references cited in each lesson and seeing how each reference is used in its original context. If you have questions not answered in this lesson, you may forward them to us through a personal letter, fax or email. Members of our staff will be happy to assist you by answering your questions.

      The Church Is Not The Building

      When the New Testament talks about the Church, it speaks of an assembly of people. In the Bible the word church is a translation of the Greek word ekklesia, meaning a calling out. (See "The Historical Background of the Word Church.) It never refers to a building or meeting place, but always to people, the ones called out" of the world's society by God calling them into His service. The Church of the Bible is not a cold, stone building, but a group of warm and loving people specially chosen by God.

      In the Scriptures church can refer to the group of believers in a particular location, such as a city or region, or to the entire body of believers God has called.

      So a building with no worshipers cannot really be a church in the biblical sense. The New Testament Church is a group of people called out of this world's society by God, even if they meet in a rented hall or on a grassy hillside. For example, the apostle Paul greeted the church—the congregation of people—that met in the house of Priscilla and Aquila in Rome (Romans 16:3-5).

      What are the roots, the history, of the Church? What sets apart people whom God calls His own? How does God use the Church to achieve His purposes? What does the Church do for us, and what should its members do for the Church? How can we be part of what God is doing through His Church?

      When Jesus said, ... I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it (Matthew 16:18), He was saying the Church—His chosen people—would not die out. It would be alive-a warm and caring body of believers striving to serve God, do His work and support each other. Today, with so many conflicting doctrines and practices, how can we recognize the Church Jesus built?

      In this lesson let's learn what the Bible teaches about God's Church and what it means for us.

      A Chosen People

      As we've seen in previous lessons, God has a plan for bringing mankind to salvation in His Kingdom. Since His creation of Adam and Eve, God has worked with people in various ways but always with the same goal in mind.

      Before Christ came, God called only a few people out of their societies to serve Him and further His work. Many of them are mentioned by name in Hebrews 11, a chapter in the Bible we could call the faith hall of fame.

      Even as He called and worked through individual leaders and prophets to do a spiritual work, God established a physical nation to help fulfill His plan. This nation, the descendants of Abraham through his grandson Israel, was also known as God's congregation (Acts 7:38) or "church," as it is translated in the King James Version. Understanding how God worked through people in the Old Testament is important background for understanding why and how God established the Church in the New Testament.

      Has God worked with people in different ways?

      God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made theworlds (Hebrews 1:1-2).

      God spoke to Adam and

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