“It is important that a distinction be made between the assembly as defined by the New Testament and churches as they are known today...Compared with the pattern of the assembly of believers (ekklesia) as described in the New Testament, institutional churches fall far short.” ReligionChurchEkklesiaEcclesiaInstitutional ChurchNew Testament ChurchFormal ReligionIc Author:Henry Hon
“For Christianity, a genuinely political economy—where individual desire and communal flourishing serve one another—shares patterns of common life built into the divine economy. It only requires the ecclesia to make good on what the 'called out ones' already claim as true.” ChristianityPolitical EconomyEcclesia Book:Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism Source: Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism