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God’s People in the Wilderness: The Church in Hebrews is unavailable, but you can change that!

What is the Church? If we want to minister to today’s broken world we need to understand what Scripture means by the Church. New Testament writes about the body of Christ and the Kingdom of God. For the writer to the Hebrews, the Church of today finds its most proper definition in terms of the historical experience of the old covenant people of God “in the wilderness” during the days of Moses....

composition does the author refer to the church as the ‘body of Christ’, as does the Apostle Paul. Neither does he develop very fully the concept of the ‘kingdom of God’ as that teaching is found in the ministry of Jesus and the gospellers. His perspective on the people of God is altogether different, even though wholly compatible with other images of the church in the new covenant scriptures. For the writer to the Hebrews, the church of today finds its most proper definition in terms of the historical
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