The Work Of The Church

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I.       Introduction

II.      Characteristics Of The Church

III.    The Individual And The Church

IV.     A Work Of The Church: Teaching The Gospel

V.       A Work Of The Church: Worship

VI.     A Work Of The Church: Benevolence Of Needy Saints

VII.   The Treasury Of The Church

VIII.  Carnal Influences In The Church

IX.     Things That Are Not The Work Of The Church

 

Some material in this study is derived or directly quoted from the following texts, which are suggested for further study and additional information:

●      (BDB) "Revised Whittaker's Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon," 1906, 1997, Logos Research Systems, Inc.

●      (JHT) "A Greek-English Lexicon Of The New Testament," Joseph Henry Thayer, 1979, Zondervan Publishing House

●      "Greek-English Lexicon Of The New Testament: Based On Semantic Domains," Johannes P. Louw and Eugene A. Nida, 1989, New York: United Bible Societies

●      "Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament,", Timothy and Barbara Friberg, 1994

●      (WEV) "Expository Dictionary Of New Testament Words," W. E. Vine, 1966, Flemming H. Revell Co.

●      "A Manual Grammar Of The Greek New Testament," 1927, 1955, Dana and Mantey, Macmillan Co.

●      LXX Septuaginta (LXT) (Old Greek Jewish Scriptures) edited by Alfred Rahlfs, 1935, the German Bible Society

●      "New Testament Words," William Barclay, SCM Press Ltd., 1964

●      (TBA) "The Bible Almanac," Packer, Tenney, White, Jr., 1980, Thomas Nelson Publishers

●      (OED) Online Etymology Dictionary, http://www.etymonline.com

●      "The Bible in English: Its History and Influence," 2003, David Daniell

●      "Walking By Faith," Roy E. Cogdill, 1957, 1967, The Gospel Guardian Company

●      "Old Issues Do Not Fade Away – A Study In Centralization Of Churches And Institutionalism," Gene Frost, 1975, 1976, Gospel Anchor

●      (M-W) The Merriam-Webster American English Dictionary Online, 2012

●      Wikipedia: web-based free-content encyclopedia, 2012

 

Bible translations referenced in this work include:

KJV:     King James Version (1611)

ASV:     American Standard Version (1901)

NKJ:     New King James Version (1982)

NAU:    New American Standard Bible (1995)

YLT:     Young's Literal Translation (1862, 1898)

TNT:     Tyndale New Testament (1534)

Bible quotations in this work are from the NKJ unless otherwise indicated.  Anglicized equivalents of Greek and Hebrew words appear in all upper case characters with the approximate pronunciation following in braces.