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“Binding and Loosing”

“Binding and Loosing”

Yesterday I made a post about “What Jesus Said About Church” and listed the only two passages where Jesus explicitly mentions church (Matthew 16.17–19 and Matthew 18:15-18). What’s interesting is that each of those passages appear to have two different expressions, with the first representing what seems to be a larger, more universal concept of Church, while the latter is more practical and descriptive of a local gathering or collective.   Yet both end with the understanding that the ekklesia, in whatever form, has been given authority to “bind and loose”. Continue reading

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