Most of the New Testament was written in Ελληνιστική Κοινή ("Hellenistic Koiné") otherwise known as Koine Greek. To the scripture scholar the word...koine... is the Greek word for...common...when referencing "the common dialect"... ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος
The Greek word ἐκκλησία (ekklesia) is usually translated as an...assembly..of the people, of God.
Our Heavenly Father knows each, and every individual human person as His child.
Acts 2:1-4
1 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.
You will note that the Holy Spirit rested His presence on each one of them. The Spirit of God identifies with each, and every individual human person.
Each human person who accepts Our Father's invitation to follow Him, is the church that The Christ builds...even those, such as Simon Peter who denied Jesus, three times...are encouraged to follow Him.
“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all” ~ Colossians 3:9-11
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