Baptist church

The Baptist Church

The word Church in the New Testament is two Greek words-ekklesia, ek (called) klesia (out), the called out ones.  These words are used 115 times in the New Testament.

 The church Universal is made-up of those that have:

1. Be born again

            Today we find that the church has been made up of many that have never experienced the salvation. This has caused the church in our time to be very religious.

We are contending with the same problems that

Jesus was during with during his ministry. (Matthew 22)

            The word church in the universal sense is all Believers (matt16:18).

                        a. The assembled: the church will one day be all gathered together. (heb. 12:23 REV.21-22).

                        b. The church has not been assembled yet, but there is coming a day that the church will be gathered to it self.

2.  Today, we find the Local church body a picture of the Church universal.

                        A. The “Local” church had to made decisions

                        (Matthew 18:17).

                        B. Believers join the Local Church by Baptism

                        Believers are born into the Church Universal example

‘Man on the cross”; people are baptized into the Local church.  Those that are in the Baptist church have these things in common with each other. They are born again and baptized by immersion into the local church.

                        C. The local church has two ordinances baptism and the lords super.

                                                Matthew 28:18-20

                        “Membership into the Local church is not salvation”

                        One can join the Local church and find himself lost and without God.

                        D. the local church in the N.T. had many functions.

                        1. They were a democratic body under the lordship of Christ.

                        2. They make their own decisions. (acts 1:15)

                        3. They select their own deacons.  (Acts 6:1)

                        4. They administered the ordinances. (acts 2:41-42)

                        5. They send missionaries. (acts 13:1)

                        6. They are independent of the other churches they still work together (1 Cor 16:3-4 2 cor 8:19-21). Paul’s missionary journeys give us this picture.

3. The offices of the Local Church

                        A. The Pastor of the New testament church can be described in three words Bishop, elder, overseer.

                        B. Deacon diakonos servant

                        These are the servants of the church 1 Tim 3:8-