The Church is spoken of in Scripture as being “the body of Christ”, “the bride of God” and “the sheep of the great Shepard”.
In truth, the first Church was the first man and woman ever created who ” walked with God in the cool of the day “. Adam means mankind. But the Church in the Biblical sense means; ” those in covenant relationship with God ” . And this took place at the calling of a people, established in Abraham and confirmed in Jacob (Israel), after the fall of mankind (Adam). This is a people set apart for God’s own purposes – to bring about redemption through the coming of Yeshua Messiah – the Christ and Savior of the world. To Him be the glory. Amen. But the Church, after the advent of Christ, means more.
More precisely, the origins of the term ‘Church’ is Old English ‘cir(i)ce’, ‘cyr(i)ce’, related to Dutch ‘kirk’ and German ‘Kirche’, based on the medieval Greek ‘kurikon’, from the Greek ‘kriakon’ (doma) ‘Lord’s (house)’, from ‘kurios’ (master or lord)….
To be the house in which the Lord dwells is essential in the belief of the Jews who acknowledged God’s presence among His people, of which is of their inheritance, and the Lord’s possession. Furthermore, the possession of the Lord began in a covenant relationship with His initiation and later with His people in His covenant law.
the body of Christ,
the bride of God,
and the sheep of the great Shepard.
