Church Help Make the Society

¶ … Church Help Make the Society as a Whole?

THE CHURCH

For centuries and ages, from the time Christian beliefs flourished in major parts of Medieval Europe, the term church has been given different definitions and meanings. Literary the term church evolved through Middle and Old English cirice, circe from the Greek term which means the lords house. From the Christians Holy Bible, the term church means a congregation or an assembly, derived from the Greek word ecclesia.

Wikipedia dictionary refers to the church as:

gathering of people for a religious meeting, but is sometimes used to refer to a building or group of buildings. It is also used to refer to a denomination that places the leadership of all congregations in a central location, such as the "Roman Catholic Church." It can also be used in an institutional sense to refer to all churches, such as.".. The church today...."

The Holy Bible however, through the teachings of Jesus Christ in the New Testament refers to the church as the actual body of the believers. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus Christ promised to build the foundation of the church through Peter. This is the very foundation that the Roman Catholic Church is basing its existence.

In the present day in our society, the church directs to the group of people belonging to a certain religion or a sect of belief always or most of the time pertaining to their faith towards the divine creator and Jesus Christ. In Christian convictions, one may refer to himself part or a member of The Church. It is through this church that they are baptized and spread the teachings, morals, purpose and the "foundation stone" of the church

Ephesians 2:20)and The Holy Bible.

Church History in Brief Church history, on Christianity, dates back to the time in the New Testament when Jesus Christ created the first foundation of the church through his disciple Peter. During the reign of the Roman Empire when Constantine recognized the legality of the Christian Worship thus the development of the church transpired and evolved. The Roman Catholic Church being the early church that existed during the early medieval times was recognized as the first church that was founded by St. Peter.

In the 15th Century came the reformation of the Church through the leadership of Martin Luther initially through the nailing of his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Church. That document embodied an attack on papal abuses and the sale of indulgences by church officials.

This part of history brought forth the division of the Catholic Church and its reformation. Protestantism led to the establishment of different sects and congregations in the early part of history towards the present day.

Today the Church can be defined in existence in two forms; the universal church: All believers from the day of Pentecost (Acts 2) to the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18). And a local church: A group of believers in this age meeting regularly and organized biblically to do God's will. (Examples: Romans 16:1,3-5,14-16).

Fundamentally, church in history is basing each and every principle and belief through the teachings of the Holy Bible that was conceived in the works of the apostles of Jesus Christ in the early century AD and onwards to its distinction in the 18th to the 21st Century.

The Church and Its Believers

In the modern era, the worship of the church now varies in its level of worship through the attendance and patronage of its members. Data shows that church attendance also differs in different sects of the society and place of worship. The findings of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in its periodical World Values Survey states the following datas:

The United States has a higher level of church attendance than any other country which is "at a comparable level of development."

53% of Americans consider religion to be very important in their lives. This compares with 16% in Britain, 14% in France and 13% in Germany.