CT2 QUIZ #3 VOCAB

*Ecclesiology

The study of the church's nature, marks, and purposes

Body of Christ

A scriptural metaphor for the church. This metaphor is used in two different ways, one to stress the interdependence of the members of the body, and one to stress Christ's headship of the church.

Church

The community of all true believers for all time.

Ekklesia

A Greek term translated "church" in the New Testament. The word literally means "assembly" and in the Bible indicates the assembly or congregation of the people of God.

Invisible Church

The church as God sees it.

Visible Church

The church as Christians on earth see it. Because only God sees our hearts, the visible church will always include some unbelievers.

Purity of the Church

The church's degree of freedom from wrong doctrine and conduct, and its degree of conformity to God's revealed will for the church

Unity of the Church

The church's degree of freedom from divisions among true Christians.

Excommunication

The final step of church discipline in which a person is put out of the fellowship, or "communion," of the church.

Power of the Church

The church's God-given authority to carry on spiritual warfare, proclaim the gospel, and exercise church discipline.

Means of Grace

Any activities within the fellowship of the church that God uses to give more grace to Christians.

Sacrament

In Protestant teaching, a ceremony or rite that the church observes as a sign of God's grace and as one means by which those who are already justified receive God's continuing grace in their lives. The two Protestant sacraments are baptism and the Lord's Supper. In Roman Catholic teaching, there are seven sacraments, and they are understood as a necessary means of conveying saving grace.

Believers' Baptism

The view that baptism is appropriately administered only to those who give a believable profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

Immersion

The mode of baptism in the New Testament in which the person is put completely under the water and then brought back up again.

Paedobaptism

The practice of baptizing infants (the prefix paido- is derived from the Greek pais, "child").

Communion

A term commonly used to refer to the Lord's Supper.

*Consubstantiation

The Lutheran view of the Lord's Supper, which he contrasts with the Roman Catholic (transubstantiation) and Reformed views. Grudem explains this view as believing Christ's physical body and blood are present "in, with, and under" the bread and wine, rather than the elements turning into him

Transubstantiation

The Roman Catholic teaching that the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper (often referred to as "the eucharist") actually become the body and blood of Christ.