Ekklesia, Part 1: What's in a Name? // Andy Stanley

North Point Community Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Being part of a local gathering of Jesus followers means you are part of something big. It’s up to each generation to determine what Christianity looks like, sounds like, and reacts like.

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0:00.0	Hey,
0:06.0	everybody it's Andy. Welcome or welcome back to the North Point Community Church podcast.
0:10.0	Hey, at the end of this episode, please take a moment to subscribe to our YouTube channel
0:15.7	and download our free North Point app where you can access all of our recent message
0:19.8	content and actually the app is the easiest way to share all this content with a friend and it's the easiest way to keep up with everything going on around here at North Point.
0:27.0	But most importantly, I hope the following presentation inspires you to take your next step in your faith journey.
0:35.0	Enjoy.
0:37.0	It comes as no surprise that I love church. I love the local church. I love like the Big Sea Church the universal church the worldwide church and I and I love our church. I don't know what comes to mind when you hear the word church, maybe the church you're sitting in currently one of our churches.
0:55.5	Maybe when you think church you think about the church you grew up in, maybe when you think church, unfortunately, maybe you think about the church you left or hopefully not. Maybe you think about the church you left or hopefully not maybe you think about the church you're thinking about leaving but regardless of what you think about when you hear the word church you don't think about what the first church people thought about because our experience with church is
1:14.2	extraordinarily I mean there's almost no comparison to what the first church
1:18.4	people experience and what they felt and what they thought about.
1:21.6	They had an advantage in a disadvantage. The
1:23.6	advantage was in the first century, the very first church people, were never
1:27.9	ever bored, ever. They were scared, but they weren't bored.
1:34.0	So maybe you sat through church and been bored, but I bet you haven't sat through a church service where you were scared.
1:39.0	Okay? That was kind of their experience.
1:42.0	In the first century church,
1:44.1	there were no buildings, there are no buildings,
1:46.6	Bibles or bands or children's environments
1:49.5	that look like Disneyland, you know,
1:50.9	didn't have any of that stuff.
1:52.3	They literally met outside at the edge of the woods, they met in gardens, they met in homes, they were just small gatherings, they met together early on the first day of the week.
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