Archive for month: December, 2019

1. Institutional Staff (Continuation) In Catholicism, the clergy/laity is more pronounced than protestant churches. Yet, it exists in both....

One of the best ways to define anything is to describe its features or characteristics as we have described...

Few Christians realize that the central concepts and practices associated with what we call ‘church’ are not rooted in...

As to its usage, the word appears in literature outside the New Testament letters that describe a class of...

Moulton and Milligan explain that the word “meant originally any public assembly of citizens summoned by a herald.  It...

We propose a meaning for the word ekklesia that is consistently applied to both universal and local contexts.   The...