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Ask Your Preacher #2

"Where can you find the name of our church in the Bible?"

Now, I do not know the name of the church to which you belong, for I do not know who you are. Doubtless many churches are represented among my readers today. But you know what church you are a member of, if any, and you know the name of the church. So just go to your preacher and ask him to give you the book, chapter and verse in the Bible that mentions it. If it is there, he will certainly know where to find it; if it is not there, you have a right to know it. So ask him to help you.
I have read the language of Paul in I Cor. 1:2 in which he addressed "the church of God which is at Corinth." And when he made his farewell address to the elders at Ephesus he said: "Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood."
Acts 20:28.

In these two passages we have reference to "the church of God." Then Paul wrote Timothy after this fashion: "But if I tarry long, that you mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth." I Tim. 3:15.

And here reference is made to "the church of the living God." When Paul wrote the church in Rome he said: "The churches of Christ salute you." Rom. 16:16.

In the section from which Paul was writing there were a number of congregations, and they were sending their greetings to the church in Rome. Hence, Paul said: "The churches of Christ salute you." It is an evident fact, of course, if a number of congregations were called "churches of Christ," one of them would be a "church of Christ." Taking all of these Scriptures together, we read of the church of the living God, and the church of Christ.

These were not different religious organizations but were simply different designations for the same body of people. But is it possible to read anywhere in the Bible, the name of the church to which you belong?
Maybe you believe that is makes no different, but do you really want to go to a house of worship that God has not established. This is an important matter, for the Bible is our guide book from earth to glory, and we should not want to belong to something the Bible says absolutely nothing about.

So ask your preacher to help you find the name of your church in the Bible. He should not become offended if you ask this favor of him.
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Please contact Art Loeber
3143 E. Kimberly Road, Davenport, IA. 52807
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