Chapter 7

Question 1

What is the doctrine of the church?

Answer 1

ecclesiology

Question 2

What is the Greek word that means “church”?

Answer 2

ekklesia

Question 3

What is the Greek word that means “doctrine”?

Answer 3

logos

Question 4

What is the most common New Testament Greek word for church?

Answer 4

ekklesia

Question 5

What is the Greek word for church that means “called out” or “separated”?

Answer 5

ekklesia

Question 6

If the church is not a building, what is it?

Answer 6

a people

Question 7

What is the New Testament Greek word for “belonging to the Lord”?

Answer 7

kuriakon

Question 8

What is the one large church that is made up of all who have been washed in the blood of the Lamb and have their names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life?

Answer 8

the universal church

Question 9

In the vast majority of cases, what does the Biblical use of the word church refer to?

Answer 9

a local congregation of believers

Question 10

Where was the first local church?

Answer 10

Jerusalem

Question 11

At what church were believers first called “Christians”?

Answer 11

Antioch

Question 12

Name three local churches established by Paul.

Answer 12

1) Ephesus
2) Corinth
3) Thessalonica

Question 13

Name at least three local churches in Asia Minor.

Answer 13

1) Ephesus
2) Smyrna
3) Pergamos
4) Thyatira
5) Sardis
6) Philadelphia
7) Laodicea

Question 14

What are the two ways to glorify God in the church through its members?

Answer 14

to edify and purify its members

Question 15

What is the purpose of the church?

Answer 15

to glorify God

Question 16

What should the church do with the world?

Answer 16

evangelize to it and retard corruption in it

Question 17

Name three ways the church is described as in the Bible.

Answer 17

1) the body of Christ
2) the building of Christ
3) the bride of Christ

Question 18

What is the verse in which Jesus told the disciples to go into Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth?

Answer 18

Acts 1:8

Question 19

What did God institute as a representative of his authority?

Answer 19

civil government

Question 20

If we cannot obey both God and the government, who must we obey?

Answer 20

God

Question 21

For whose welfare did God institute civil government?

Answer 21

man’s

Question 22

What are the only two offices of the local church mentioned in the Bible?

Answer 22

the pastor and the deacon

Question 23

What does the word pastor mean?

Answer 23

shepherd

Question 24

What is the position of the church that emphasizes the idea of his being an overseer of the house of God?

Answer 24

bishop

Question 25

What is the position in the church that gives the idea of man's mature leasdership?

Answer 25

elder

Question 26

How many offices are there in the church according to the Bible?

Answer 26

two

Question 27

What is an outward duty prescribed by Christ to be performed by His Church?

Answer 27

ordinance

Question 28

What are the two ordinances the churches of the New Testament practised?

Answer 28

baptism and the Lord's Supper

Question 29

What word means "to dip under" or "to immerse"?

Answer 29

baptism

Question 30

What is a symbol of the believer's identification with Christ?

Answer 30

baptism

Question 31

Before a person can be baptized, what must he first understand?

Answer 31

enough to be saved

Question 32

Once a person has been instructed in the way of salvation and has accepted Christ as their Saviour, what is he ready to follow in?

Answer 32

the believer's baptizism

Question 33

What is the primary prerequisite for baptism?

Answer 33

simple faith in Christ

Question 34

How many gospels is the ordinance of the Lord's Supper mentioned in?

Answer 34

three

Question 35

Why is the Lord's Supper considered to be an ordinace?

Answer 35

it was practiced by the early church and it was explicitly stated by God

Question 36

Which view of the Lord's Supper teaches that all who have accepted Christ as Saviour may participate?

Answer 36

Open Communion

Question 37

Which view of the Lord's Supper teaches that since the disciples were a "localized" group of believers at the Last Supper, only a member of a particular church of a church "of like faith" may participate?

Answer 37

closed communion

Question 38

What are the duties of the pastor?

Answer 38

1) to be an example 2) to rule 3) to guard right doctrine 4) to "perfect" the saints 5) to "edify" the body of Christ 6) to "preach the word"

Question 39

How often was the Lord's Supper observed in Jerusalem after the Pentacost?

Answer 39

daily

Question 40

How often was the Lord's Supper observed later in the book of Acts?

Answer 40

weekly

Question 41

What is more important than the frequency of the Lord's Supper?

Answer 41

its observance

Question 42

What is the first element of the Lord's Supper?

Answer 42

unleavened bread

Question 43

What is leaven often a symbol of in the Bible?

Answer 43

sin

Question 44

What was a Jew instructed to do every Passover?

Answer 44

remove the leaven from his house

Question 45

What is the second element of the Lord's Supper?

Answer 45

the cup or fruit of the vine

Question 46

What does the bread represent in the Lord's Supper?

Answer 46

Jesus' broken body

Question 47

What does the cup of fruit of the vine represent in the Lord's Supper?

Answer 47

Jesus' spilled blood

Question 48

In reality, are Christians worthy to partake of the Lord's Supper?

Answer 48

no