1. The Names Christians Wear

2. The Names Christians Wear: CHURCH
The meaning of the name:
Greek: EKKLESIA
EK = out
KLESIS = to call
Translation as CHURCH is NOT the best translation.

3. Unfortunate Nursery School Rhyme
Here’s the church
Here’s the steeple
Open the church
See all the people

4. What is the best translation?
Assembly
Gathering
Congregation

5. The EKKLESIA explained from Scripture
As to its ORIGIN:
Matthew 16:18 -- And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

6. Proof that CHURCH describes people:
Matthew 18:17 -- If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

7. Acts 5:11 -- Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
Acts 11: News of this reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

8. The Church is Universal in Nature
Acts 20:28 -- Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood.

9. Romans 16:16 -- Greet one another with a holy kiss
Romans 16:16 -- Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ send greetings.

10. Holy Sanctified Proclaimers
The Role of the Church in the World 1 Corinthians 1:2 -- To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:
Holy
Sanctified
Proclaimers

11. Preachers of the word:
Ephesians 3: His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms,

12. Glorifying God
Ephesians 3:21 -- to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

13. Ephesians 5:24-- Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Submission to Jesus

14. 1 Timothy 3:15 -- …if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.
Godly conduct
Pillar of the truth

15. The Heavenly Nature of the Church
Hebrews 12:23 -- …to the church of the firstborn, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God, the judge of all men, to the spirits of righteous men made perfect,

16. Right to the Tree of Life
Revelation 2:7 -- He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

17. Bride of Christ
Ephesians 5: Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.