What is the Church?
Part One: God’s Calling
Introduction
1. Start of short series on what the “Church” is
2. There is a history in Scripture of God calling mankind to Himself
I. The early callings
a. Genesis 6:5, 8
b. Genesis 6:13-15
i. Genesis 11:26, 31
ii. Joshua 24:2-3
iii. Genesis 12:1-4
II. Later call of God
a. Exodus 3:7,10
b. Exodus 4:29,31
c. Exodus 32:1
d. Exodus 32:25-28
i. Jeremiah 29:10-11
ii. 1 Chronicles 36:22-23
III. God’s call today… Called by the Gospel
a. 1 Peter 2:9
b. 1 Thessalonians 2:12
c. Acts 2:29
Conclusion
1. ekklesia is a combination of ek which means ‘out of’, and kaleo which means ‘to call’
2. Our English word ‘church’ literally means “called out ones”