Lecture 5 - Ecclesiology Flashcards

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Ecclesiology

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The study of the church

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Elect Exiles

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Believers are scattered across the earth yet have their home in Christ

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The Local Church

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A group of Christians who regularly gather in Christ’s name to officially affirm and oversee one another’s membership in Jesus Christ and his kingdom through gospel preaching and gospel ordinances

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Universal Church

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The church across all time, continents, and centuries; all Christians past, present, and future - the people not the building

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Local Church

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A geographical manifestation of the universal church; a church with a time and place

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Invisible Church

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The part of the universal church that is currently living, though the number is unknown

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Visible Church

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Christians tangibly identified with a church (members)

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Gathered Church

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Occurs when a church is assembled. There are rights and privileges for this gathering (the ordinances) that should not be practiced in the scattering of the church

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Scattered Church

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Christians living their normal lives

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Ecclesia

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Assembled ones; assembly

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Organism

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Individual Christians of a corporate body

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Organization

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The gathering with its structure and incorporations. It is not obligated to take on all or any passions of organisms

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Prescriptive

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Describes what ought to be done in every church

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Descriptive

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Describes what has happened in past churches

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The Regulative Principle

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Emphasizes what Scripture commands and only allows that: Reading, preaching, prayer, singing, sacraments, and sometimes creeds and confessions

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The Normative Principle

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Anything not forbidden in Scripture concerning the gathering is permissible

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Adiaphoron

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A useless thing; popularized in the 40s and 50s concerning the church. But God cares not just that he is worshipped but how he is worshipped.

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Polity and Government

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How the church is structured. 3 models, all three confess Christ as the head of the church

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Episcopalianism

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Bishops have the authority in the church. 3 offices: Archbishop/Bishop, Elders, Deacons

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Presbyterianism

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Elders have authority over the church. 2 offices: Ruling Elders/Teaching Elders, Deacons

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Congregationalism

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The congregants hold the authority, with the offices of elder (pastor) and deacon. Each congregation has it own authority; no outsider can tell it what to do

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Elder/Pastor/Overseer

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One of two offices. List of qualifications in 1 Tim 3 and in Titus 1. Often overlooked: desires office and not quarrelsome. Consider: patterns of life vs. once-for-all standards

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Plurality of Eldership

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Elders always mentioned in the plural in Scripture. Elders need their own shepherds for support and accountability

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Complementarianism

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The office of elder is reserved for men. Both are made in God’s image and equal in worth, but they are designed for complementary roles.

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Egalitarianism

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Since men and women are equal, they may both hold the office of elder.

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Deacons

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The word means service, the function of a deacon, to take care of the people. Could be men or women.

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Church Membership

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Corporate affirmation of confession or confessor

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Church Discipline

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Corporate doubt of confession or confessor

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Formative Discipline

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Discipleship; forming into right belief and action

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Corrective Discipline

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Stepping in to correct what has gone wrong

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Goals of Discipline

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Restoration; purity of the church; done formally as the church; excommunication rests in the assembly; it is good for the one being disciplined, the church disciplining, and the watching world

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Ordinances and Sacraments

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We hold to two - baptism and the Lord’s Supper - as opposed to the Catholic seven

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Baptism

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The first ordinance instituted by Jesus given to the church in which new believers are to be submerged in water in God’s name. A visual sign of union with Christ in death and resurrection (new life)

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WWW Baptism

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new believers, entry right into new covenant family, when the local church comes together

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Credobaptism

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Baptism of new believers

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Pedobaptism

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Baptism of children of believers

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The Lord’s Supper

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Recurring sign of entry into God’s kingdom

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Eucharist

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Thanksgiving

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WWW the Lord’s Supper

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Baptized believers, remembrance-communion-hope, when the local church comes together

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Transubstantiation

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Catholic. Change in substance to the literal body and blood of Jesus. Communion is the repeated sacrifice of Jesus mass after mass

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Consubstantiation/Sacramental Union

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Real presence in the substance; union with the body and real eating and drinking of Christ, but denies physical change in substance.

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Spiritual Presence View

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Denies the physical presence of Jesus, but sees a unique spiritual presence. Emphasize participation in Christ, Jesus as the bread of life and nourishment to the soul, true communion rather than a mere memorial, spiritual nourishment of souls of believers, tridirectional understanding in past and present and future

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Mere Memorial View

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Tangible sign of past reality. To be remembered, it must be absent. Ordinance but not sacrament (which means mystery)

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Totally Open Communion

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Anyone and everyone is included in the Lord’s Supper (largely dead in theory, reviving in practice as people refrain from addressing the limits that should be placed on it)

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Open Communion

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Any Christians in the world

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Close Communion

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Baptized believers may take communion

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Closed Communion

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Communion reserved for members of the local church where it is being served