Words: Church
Harvey Gillman continues his series on words and their meanings
In his Journal, George Fox tells of an encounter with a priest in Leicester:
He asked me what a church was? I told him the church was the pillar and ground of truth, made up of living stones, living members, a spiritual household, which Christ was the head of; but he was not the head of a mixed multitude, or of an old house made up of lime, stones and wood.
The church was not a building. The church was the people. Not just any people, but those who were gathered together by the Lord, turned to the light – a society of the saved (living stones) not of the sinner (the mixed multitude). Hence anyone committing a sin and who would not repent was disowned – not owned by the saved, not worthy of their society.
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