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The Church in God’s Program is a biblical study covering the entire scope of the church—its beginning, government, ministries, and the new covenant. Robert L. Saucy begins with a look at the historical meaning of the word “church,” along with a biblical look at God’s intentions for the church. He also shows the relationship between the church and Israel and the church and God’s kingdom, and...

Testament term outside of the formal analogy of an assembly of people meeting for a particular purpose.6 IN THE SEPTUAGINT The primary background for the New Testament use of the term ekklesia, as with most New Testament word thought, is the Old Testament, specifically the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures in the third century B.C. The word ekklesia occurred almost a hundred times in the Septuagint and always translated the Hebrew qahal or a word of the same root.7 Although qahal is also
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