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Dear Friend :
Wha is t he Bib ical
NAME
for the Church? The Bible
gives the true
NAME
of the Church in twelve different olaces.
Twelve,
remember~
is God's complete number.
In five passages where the true NAME of the Church
appears, the ent.ire Body of Christ -- the Church as a whole --
is nd1cated . Thus when speaking of
the
entire Church, i nclu ing
all
1
ta
1nd1vidual
members on earth, the name is ''The Church of
God." Here are these five passages:
1) Acts 20:28. The admonition to the elders is to
"feed The CHURCH OF GOD.
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2) I Corinthians 10 :32.
r.. he Jews,
1
or o the Gentiles
1
.or
"Gi.ve no offense, ne i the r
co The CHURCH OF GOD. "
3 )
I Cori thians 11 :22. " ... or desp s e
ye
The
CHURCH OF GOD and shame them that have not?"
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4)
I Corinthians 15 : 9. Paul wrote: "For 1 persecuted
The CHURCH OF GOD."
5)
Galatians
1:13.
This verse repeats the one las t
g ven --
"J
pe rsecuted The CHURCH OF GOD."
Notlce that Paul d d not call the true Churc.h
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Ca hoJ 1c
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or
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Prot estant." Nowhere is the true Church-ca:Tled after 't he
name of a MAN or after the name ofadoctrine.
Where one specific local congregation is men ione d
he
true Church i.s called
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The CHURCH OF
GOD
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often in connec tion
with the place of locati.on. Here are four more passages:
6)
I Corinthians 1 :2. "The CHURCH OF GOD which s a
Carin h .
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7\
II Corinthians 1 : 1 . "The CHURCH OF GOD wh ch
~s
at Corinth . (,
8)
I Timothy
3:5.
In
speaking of a local elder i n a
l oca_ cong.egation, Paul wrote Timothy:
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For il' a man lmow not
how o rule his own house, how shall he take care
or
The CHURCH
OF GOD?"