What does it mean to be engaged or to be involved in the ecclesia?

 

En‧gage:

  • [intransitive always + preposition] to be doing or to become involved in an activity engage in/on/upon > If you engage in an activity, you do it or are actively involved with it.
  • [transitive] to attract someone’s attention and keep them interestedengage somebody’s interest/attention
  • [transitive] to attract someone’s attention and keep them interestedengage somebody’s interest/attention
in the sense of participate in
Definition
to take part or participate > Synonyms:
participate in 
join in  
embark on  
enter into  
become involved in 
set about  
partake of 

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Engagement or involvement

When we talk about being committed or involved here, we are committed to something in mind or cooperating or cooperating.

If a person is expected to be « engaged » or « engaged », that person is expected to actively participate in or be immersed in a particular activity, event, or relationship.

It means that you can be found for something and want to participate in it without being rude. Before one is committed, there must be an interest in the matter and it is important to join a specific group, which one wants to join.

The person concerned is interested in the case and even wants to invest there. He or she wants to contribute (give – be conducive to) and participate.

To become a member of an ecclesia, it is expected that one will go for the same faith and even wish to commit oneself to it. The tasks or situations that are available are then prepared not to shy away from.

Being involved or committed requires giving time, energy and effort to contribute to or make a difference in a situation and in the case of an ecclesia or religious community, contributing constructively to connecting with that religious group in order to build it and expand.

Being involved also means caring, helping, providing services or offering. This also includes offering others a helpful hand and helping them move forward, helping someone get started or getting them going. This can be done with advice or provided with advice and assistance. Furthermore, it keeps a ready stand for support and to be ready as support for others such as undercarrier, protector and right hand.

It also means being present, attentive and responsive in interactions with others and willing to pave the way for others or help them out of need. This can even go as far as helping others out of the brine or even pulling out of a deep swamp. It may happen several times that someone will have to be taken in tow, even though it may be that one will have to walk the soles of one’s shoes.

Overall, commitment or being involved means a sense of commitment, connection, and contribution to a common goal.

Involvement or commitment in the ecclesia

Involvement or commitment in a church community means actively participating in the various aspects of the life and ministry of the church. This can include attending worship services and prayer meetings, volunteering for service opportunities, participating in small groups, supporting outreach and mission efforts, and contributing financially to the work of the church.

It is a willingness to work together in connection or with feeling to shape and support faith. The involvement in the ecclesia brings with it a feeling of solidarity among the alliance, where all members want to focus on deepening and spreading the Word of God. In solidarity, they want to move together with the same party spirit or esprit de corps.

Engagement also includes building relationships with other members of the church, providing support and encouragement to each other, and seeking to live up to the values and teachings of faith in everyday life.

Being involved in a church community means that people want to be accomplices and parties to a fact that was started many centuries ago and must be continued. As fellow oaths, one adheres to living up to the brotherhood and, as a keeper of the faith, to further proclaim that faith. Such involvement often leads to a feeling of connection, purpose and spiritual growth.

 

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  1. Necessary formalities for the trek
  2. The non-traditional church born from spiritual life
  3. Whether or not you feel at home in a church
  4. Housechurch is about a new way of life
  5. Whether or not you feel at home in a church
  6. What does it mean to belong to a church community
  7. Our house church is an organic church
  8. The intentions of our Brussels ecclesia
  9. Work in the family home and garden

 

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Additional reading

  1. How should we react against the world
  2. After 2,000 UK Church Buildings Close, New Church Plants Get Creative
  3. Decrease in church attendance not only a recent feature #5 Necessity of attendance
  4. An other trait for faith in Jesus and his God
  5. Commit your self to the trustworthy creator
  6. Consider your own journey in life
  7. Our Sense of Belonging
  8. Invest in Faith working together arm in arm
  9. Faith a commitment to the promises of Christ and to to the demands of Christ
  10. Willing to do and we willing to learn everything that the Elohim has spoken
  11. The work I do, let it be done good
  12. It’s the Little Things that Matter
  13. Whom can we trust to govern us?
  14. Commitment to Christian unity
  15. Symptom of tzara’at a white spot on the flesh
  16. Messages leading to an earthly utopia
  17. Today’s thought “Through many tribulations” (November 4)
  18. Today’s thought “To carry my name” (May 01)
  19. Today’s thought “… with all your heart” (May 09)
  20. With all your heart
  21. Today’s thought “Clothing yourselves with the right attitude” (May 16)
  22. Being Religious and Spiritual 8 Spiritual, Mystic and not or well religious
  23. a Strong Family doesn’t just happen
  24. How should we worship God? #8 Love one another
  25. Sharing your big scriptures for tough times
  26. United helping to spread the Good News
  27. Evangelizing in the “Time of the End”
  28. Being asked about Tithing
  29. How to become a Christadelphian

What does it mean to belong to a Christadelphian ecclesia

 

Belonging to a Christadelphian ecclesia means being a member of a local congregation or community of Christadelphians or Brethren in Christ, who are members of a worldwide community of believers in the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Christadelphians have a distinctive set of beliefs, including a belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God, a rejection of the doctrine of the Trinity, and a belief in the coming kingdom of God on earth.

To belong to a Christadelphian ecclesia, the participant is expected to follow Biblical teaching and be willing to be part of a community like a brother in Christ where one applies the same values and norms that were used by the first followers of Christ.

If one wants to belong to a Christadelphian ecclesia, one must agree to describe the teachings of Jesus Christ and worship his God. Membership in an ecclesia includes participation in regular worship services, Bible studies, and community activities, as well as supporting and caring for fellow members of the ecclesia.

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Preceding

  1. There are times in your life, when you must be a lighthouse
  2. How do you organise a house church?
  3. Our house church is an organic church
  4. How to find out that you belong to God’s people and are a chosen one
  5. Brothers and sisters as one family
  6. What does it mean to belong to a family
  7. What does it mean to belong to a church community

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Additional reading

  1. Democratic principles for the church of today
  2. Who are you going to reach out to today
  3. Compassion and Discipline
  4. Integrity of the fellowship
  5. Making church
  6. Parish, local church community – Parochie, plaatselijke kerkgemeenschap
  7. Congregation – Congregatie
  8. Church sent into the world
  9. United people under Christ
  10. Disciple of Christ counting lives and friends dear to them
  11. Training for the kingdom
  12. Synagogue, Church or Ecclesia for the Christian
  13. The Ecclesia
  14. Reasons to come to gether
  15. Right Hand of Fellowship
  16. Preaching to an unbelieving world
  17. The Pastor Theologian
  18. How do I know if I’m called to ministry?
  19. As brothers and sisters showing that you are followers of the real Jesus or being a Jeshuaist sharing responsibilities
  20. Being comforted by the Most High and His family
  21. Being in isolation #7 Mission work
  22. Looking for Christadelphian in your neighborhood
  23. Ecclesia – Church – Minding your reference
  24. Today’s thought “Standing up for the faith” (December 20)
  25. Living stones 1 A lifeless and a lively stone
  26. Living stones 7 The spiritual house
  27. Brothers and sisters in Christ, united by the bond of the spirit
  28. Elders, pastors, paid or unpaid professionals
  29. Those Belonging to the called ones coming together
  30. Leading Brethren
  31. How to Form an Ecclesia
  32. Meeting – Vergadering
  33. To belong to = toebehoren
  34. Gathering or meeting of believers
  35. Structure
  36. Christadelphian Halls
  37. Intentions of an Ecclesia
  38. Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
  39. Antwerp Ecclesia
  40. A new site looking at ecclesiae of the City of Christ
  41. The Big Conversation – Christadelphians in the United Kingdom
  42. Members of the ecclesia uniting and seeking God’s help in tribulation
  43. A question to be posed
  44. An ecclesia in your neighborhood
  45. The first on the list of the concerns of the saint
  46. Growth in character
  47. The First Century Ecclesias
  48. Works of The First Century Ecclesia
  49. Character transformed by the influence of our fellowships
  50. A Living Faith #11 My place in the body of Christ and my ecclesia
  51. Rebirth and belonging to a church
  52. Those who call the Christadelphians a cult
  53. Time for the church to wake up and smell the coffee
  54. Long time to search, find and to become
  55. A House for God in our 21st century