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A contemporary, foundational statement of classic reformed faith, now revised and updated • Comprehensive, coherent, contextual, and conversational • Scripture-saturated, with more exegesis and more Scripture quotations than other one-volume theologies • Upholds classic Calvinist positions on baptism, the Trinity, church government, and much more • Interacts with contemporary issues...
THE “ASSEMBLY” IN THE NEW TESTAMENT The Old Testament quite obviously provides the background to the New Testament’s representation of the church as God’s ἐκκλησία, ekklēsia.12 At this time I want to concentrate on this word—the one word, as we have seen, which expressed more vividly than perhaps any other what it meant in the Old Testament to be both the people and the covenant community of God, namely, God’s redeemed possession assembled before him to worship and to hear his law.13
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