What is the Church? This is a question that could be answered in various ways depending on who you ask. Some people treat the church as a building that is attended once a week for fellowship and worship, and some view the church as body of believers working together to proclaim the Gospel. The church is much more than just a building. Essentially, the church’s purpose is to fulfill God’s ultimate purpose here on earth. The church is designed to glorify Christ by spreading the Gospel to the world. Whether this is through a formal church setting, or by going overseas to evangelize, the church was created to share the good news of Jesus Christ. In “The Church” by Ed Hayes, he defines the church as “a living, vibrant, and expanding institution
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For this assignment, I have been studying the main purpose of the church, the new testament and modern day church, the church’s relationship to the kingdom, and the roles the church plays in present …show more content…
Compared to the Old Testament, the New Testament church had the Holy Spirit to guide them in their teachings and be a vital aspect in the church. The New Testament Church was created by the teachings, example, and ministry of Christ. “Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit”(Ephesians 2:20-22). In order to know how the modern day church should look, we must look back to the New Testament Church. It did not start with Apostles, it started with Christ. It was from Christ that the apostles learned what the church should look like. He trained the apostles to prepare them to be evangelists and church planters. The structure of the new testament church started with the church-planters being members of the church. This helped them engage in their ministry which was extremely missionary based. In The New Testament Order for Church and Missionary, Alexander Rattay Hay, he talks about how the Lord founded the church as a missionary organization. He explains that Paul and other apostles were busy planting churches throughout the world and that when a church has lost it’s mission mind set and whose leaders
For this assignment, I have been studying the main purpose of the church, the new testament and modern day church, the church’s relationship to the kingdom, and the roles the church plays in present …show more content…
Compared to the Old Testament, the New Testament church had the Holy Spirit to guide them in their teachings and be a vital aspect in the church. The New Testament Church was created by the teachings, example, and ministry of Christ. “Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit”(Ephesians 2:20-22). In order to know how the modern day church should look, we must look back to the New Testament Church. It did not start with Apostles, it started with Christ. It was from Christ that the apostles learned what the church should look like. He trained the apostles to prepare them to be evangelists and church planters. The structure of the new testament church started with the church-planters being members of the church. This helped them engage in their ministry which was extremely missionary based. In The New Testament Order for Church and Missionary, Alexander Rattay Hay, he talks about how the Lord founded the church as a missionary organization. He explains that Paul and other apostles were busy planting churches throughout the world and that when a church has lost it’s mission mind set and whose leaders