Lord willing, the product of these efforts will be first a free e-book where several of these posts from 2017 to present have been collected and edited into volume 1, What is Church? Should the Lord allow, this will be the first volume of a number of books dedicated to understanding better what is meant by Christ building His church (ekklesia). Volume 2 is tentatively planned to be the doctrinal development of the universal church and is meant to be a historical supplement to the first volume. As a second effort, perhaps these e-books can be edited into Kindle or print-on-demand format at some point in the not-too-distant future. As it stands now, volume 1, What is Church? in e-book format is approximately 90% complete. It includes the following posts:
- Thinking About Church
- What is Church?
- The Meaning of Church
- What is an Ekklesia?
- Church and the English Bible
- What about the Synagogue?
- The OT Use of Ekklesia
- Ekklesia in the Gospel of Matthew
- The Foundation of Ekklesia
- The New Testament Use of Ekklesia
- An Eschatological Ekklesia
- The Already/Not Yet Ekklesia