The Christian Church
The Christian Church is the assembly or association of followers of Jesus Christ. The Greek term ἐκκλησία that in its appearances in the New Testament is usually translated as "church" basically means "assembly".
People to meet to worship together.
A church is a building that was constructed to allow people to meet to worship together. These people are usually Christians, or influenced by Christianity. Other religious groups also have such buildings.
Christian Churches.
The four traditional "notes of the Christian Church" are unity, holiness, catholicity, and apostolicity.[2] In the phenomenological sense, there are many associations that call themselves Christian churches.
“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.”
A church is a building that was constructed to allow people to meet to worship together. These people are usually Christians, or influenced by Christianity. Other religious groups also have such buildings, but they have different names. Jews pray in synagogues, Muslims pray in mosques, Hindus and Buddhism pray in temples. Depending on the number of people that are in a community, the churches come in different sizes. Small churches are called chapels. The churches in a particular geographical area form a group called the diocese. Each diocese has a cathedral. In most cases, the cathedral is a very big church. Cathedrals are the seat of bishops.
Christian Worship
In the early days of Christianity people had to worship in secret. Christian worship was not allowed in the Roman empire.
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Already in the 2nd century, Christians denounced teachings that they saw as heresies, especially Gnosticism but also Montanism.
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The New Testament the term ἐκκλησία (church or assembly) is used for local communities and in a universal sense to mean all believers.
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