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The church as the unique Body of Christ, the issue of the work of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23), is composed of all genuine believers in Christ (Rom. 12:5; 1 Cor. 12:12) and, according to the New Testament revelation, is manifested in time and space in local churches, each of which includes all the believers in a given city, regardless of where they ...
The NTCG seminary was founded by Davis soon after he left the Pentecostal Church of God in 1969, and was incorporated in St. Louis as the Midwestern Bible Institute. [8] [9] The institute was later known as New Testament Christian (NTC) College, and is currently known as New Testament Christian Seminary. [8] [10]
One of the Seven churches of Asia to whom the first part of the Book of Revelation is addressed (Revelation 2:1–7). The author praises the Ephesians for their perseverance and discernment, but admonishes them for backsliding from a more praiseworthy condition.
The word church is used in the sense of a distinct congregation in a given city in slightly under half of the 200 uses of the term in the New Testament. [1] John Locke defined a church as "a voluntary society of men, joining themselves together of their own accord in order to the public worshipping of God in such manner as they judge acceptable to him".
[136] [137] [138] [page needed] This teaching is based on the New Testament examples of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 8:1), the church in Antioch (Acts 13:1), the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 1:2), the seven churches in seven cities in Asia (Rev. 1:11), etc. Watchman Nee and his co-workers, including Witness Lee, established local churches ...
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The Catholic Church, or Roman Catholic Church, is composed of 24 autonomous sui iuris particular churches: the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches. It considers itself the one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church that Christ founded, [ 63 ] and which Saint Peter initiated along with the missionary work of Saint Paul and others.
It is the commonly used translation of Local Churches (affiliation). The New Testament was published in 1985 with study aids, and was revised in 1991. [1] Text-only editions of the New Testament and of the complete Bible became available in 1993 and 1999, respectively. [2] The full study Bible was published in 2003.