This Teaching Offers

👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 The four #church names Beloved and respected, all our members who follow the orthodox education that we convey on the website of John's Repentance; In view of the recent challenges facing our church, it is important to convey a series of teachings about the church. For today, we have sent you a lesson from a book. We ask that you all read it and gain understanding so that we can protect the church together. 1. The church is one This means that the church is one that is not divided by race, color, tribe, tribe, country, border, village, language, etc. Everyone who is a Christian in Christ does not separate the existence of these from the communion of Christ's church. "For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that body, being many are one body:  so is Christ." We are all baptized into one spirit to become one body. Whether we are Jews, pagans, slaves, or free, we have all drunk of one Spirit" 1. Cor 12:12 Eph 4:4 John 17:21 2.The Church is Holy When the scholars translated the word "holy", they said it means pure, strong, noble and special. Therefore, when we say that the church is holy, we mean purity, integrity, honor, and specialness. "Sanctify them in your truth, for your word is true..I will sanctify myself for them, so that they may be truly holy." You are the temple, so do not defile the temple of God" 1 Cor 3:17; 1 Cor 6:19-20 1 Pet 20:15 When scholars teach: "The believers themselves are the church." "Holy" means purity, integrity, dignity, and specialness. It is perseverance, that is to say, one who perseveres in religion. She is pure, because she cleanses from sin when you touch her. She is glorious, for she is glorified by the blood of Christ. Why do we call her "Mother"? because as a mother keeps her children alive by feeding them, the church also keeps her children alive by feeding them the holy flesh and holy body of Christ. 3.. The church is for everyone This means that the church is given to all, is available to all, found everywhere, is not divided by the country or the government. It was created only for the children of Jacob according to the Old Testament law; but in new Testament She is called Kulawit (for all) because she can be found and used by everyone. "The fruit of blessing (the flesh and the blood) that will be the food of the saints is a vine whose ends are in heaven and whose roots are in the earth." Also, for a tree, it has a trinity: the root is the father, the trunk is the the son and the branch is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. In such a case, it should not be called three trees, but one tree.  Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in name  body and in task, While they've are one in character, existence, rule, power, and government. The other one is that the Lord preaches the church to all, saying that he was crucified on Calvary in the center of the earth and said, "I did not show partiality with my cross." Later, the apostles were sent to the whole world, not just to one country. › Matthew 28:19 Col 3:11 Gal 3:25 4. . The Church is apostolic The Orthodox Church listens to the teachings of the apostles and perseveres in their religion, knowing what the apostles learned from the Lord and preserving its traditions and living until the coming of Christ. It is called the Apostolic Church because it transmits to the succeeding generation what they commanded in their synods in their canons and books, which carries on the footsteps of the apostles, and where the priesthood system that came from the apostles is found, and is unbroken. Because life has been revealed to us, and we have seen it and we are witnesses, we will tell you the eternal life that is from the Father and has been revealed to us." Source: ኀብረ ሥርዓት መምህር አብርሃም አረጋ May the name of the Holy God be praised forever and ever in every tongue that He has created, today and always. May the blessings of God's mother, the virgin, and the cross be upon us. Amen. ©John's Repentance Follow our Telegram group every day and share it with your friends https://t.me/+DCbv9KRTroY0NmJh