Exam 4 Flashcards
various conceptions of the church
roman catholic
protestant
orthodox
ekklesia (greek)
mos basic word for church
what are the people of God?
the church
what is the Body of Christ-the church as the focus of God’s activity just as his physical body was during his earthly ministry?
the church
what should be in the body of Christ?
Interconnectedness Dependence Mutuality Genuine fellowship Unified Universal An extension of Jesus’ ministry Under His headship
what is the temple of the holy spirit- the empowerment of the church comes from the Holy Spirit?
the church
what is the kingdom of God?
is God’s rule over His creation
when did the church begin?
Israel was included with the church (one church)
the church did not begin until Pentecost (two people of God)
the church is:
Doxological Logocentric Pneumadynamic Covenantal Confessional Missional Spatio-Temporal/Eschatological
the church should be doxological
- a church should be oriented to the glory of God
2. a church should be aware that it can be susceptible to idolatry
the church is logocentric
- a church should be focused on God’s Word
a. Jesus as the Word of God
b. scripture as the Word of God
1. the sufficiency of scripture
2. the awareness of false doctrine
the church is penumadynamic
- the church is created, gathered, gifted, and empowered by the Holy Spirit
- the work of the Holy Spirit in the Christian’s salvation
- the work of the Holy spirit in the building up of the church
- the work of the Holy
spirit and God’s Word
the church is covenental
- the way one enters the new covenant is through conversion to JC attested to by baptism by immersion and not by means of family or church association
- the church should covenant together to gather in a new covenant relationship with God and one another
church is confessional
- a christian must give a personal confession of faith in the saving Lordship of JC
- a church should share a common, corporate confession of the Christian faith
the church is missional
- is expansive
- contextually sensitive
- desires to be universal
spatio-temproal/eschatological
- church consists in a certain space
2. is to reveal inaugurate descatology
what are the offices of the church?
apostle
pastor/elder/overseer
deacon
what is an apostle?
means “sent one”
less restrictive group that merely denotes one sent on a special assignemnt
apostle
apostle
more restrictive way of an authoritative, foundational group that no longer existed after that initial first generation
what is an elder
texts such as Acts 20:17-28 reveal that there is no clear NT distinction between bishop, pastor, elder, overseer
NT church structure
Jesus
elders
deacons
congregation
what did Millard Erickson believe about church functions?
Evangelism
Edification
worship
social concern
Stanley Grenz threefold mandate
worship
edification
outreach
John Newport considers the purposes as the church as
Worship Service Fellowship Discipline Organization Edification Education Proclamation Testimony
Rick warren believes that the church’s purposes are
Worship Ministry Evangelism Fellowship Discipleship
regulative principle
worship should only include those elements that Scripture explicitly or implicitly endorses
normative principle
whatever is not prohibited is permissible in worhsip
ministry of service
- caring for one another
2. caring for the poor, the widow, the alien, the orphan
ministry of evangelism
- need for understanding the basic Gospel message
- the need to communicate the basic Gospel message to the lost
- the struggle of evangelism may lie in the weakness of other ministries of the church