Comments on: What you call it matters. http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/07/03/what-you-call-it-matters/ Real people talking about The Church Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:19:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Phil http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/2006/07/03/what-you-call-it-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Phil Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:59:09 +0000 http://www.thechurchblog.org/live/?p=40#comment-43 In todays culture what you call something takes on even more problems in view of people having different definitions for words, based on their experience. What you call "church" might mean two different things to two different people. It is quite difficult to give something a name without bringing along the baggage of interpretation of that title by your audience. On the other hand you must give it some name that really protrays what it is you are trying to create. In Biblical times names were given because of a significant event or meaning. Much the same should be true for such a church. For example a community of home churches (for lack of a better name) that exist in Columbus, OH refer to themselves as Xenos Fellowship, Xenos being the greek word for community. What is interesting about this is that the name of the group portrays a significant part of their purpose, fellowship and community as followers of Christ. In todays culture what you call something takes on even more problems in view of people having different definitions for words, based on their experience. What you call “church” might mean two different things to two different people. It is quite difficult to give something a name without bringing along the baggage of interpretation of that title by your audience.

On the other hand you must give it some name that really protrays what it is you are trying to create. In Biblical times names were given because of a significant event or meaning. Much the same should be true for such a church. For example a community of home churches (for lack of a better name) that exist in Columbus, OH refer to themselves as Xenos Fellowship, Xenos being the greek word for community. What is interesting about this is that the name of the group portrays a significant part of their purpose, fellowship and community as followers of Christ.

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