What is the Ecclesia?
"Since you are eager for gifts of the Spirit, try to excel in those that build up the church" (1 Corinthians 14:12). Most Christian don’t know their own identity. They don’t know what the Ecclesia is. Ecclesia is usually translated as "church." What would you answer if I asked you, “Where do you go to church?” The question would not be strange at all. You would answer that you go to such and such church at a particular address. To most people, a church is a building that one goes to on Sundays. Or Saturdays if you are a Seventh-day Adventist. The Greek word for “church” is ekklesia , which is brought over into English as Ecclesia. And it does not mean a building. As the Encyclopædia Britannica explains, ecclesia refers to a “gathering of those summoned.” Vines Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says the word literally means the “called out ones.” Ecclesia refers to an organism, not an organization. Ecclesia can refer to the local gathering of C
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