Ecclesia Communities: Key to a Godly Social Order

When you hear ‘ecclesia’ do you immediately think ‘church’; even though you have heard in lecture after lecture that ecclesia is Greek for ‘called out ones’ – that is, people, congregation, assembly, or community? Why do we see it translated as church in our English Bibles? How has this influenced our understanding of the verses where this mistranslation is used? Come explore the implications with us. You will hesitate to use the term church when you discover its true origins. You will see ...