About
EKKLESIA (εκκλησια)
Noun
1. A casual gathering of people, an assemblage, gathering
2. People with shared belief, community, congregation
3. A global community of Christians, (universal) church
The Short Version
Ekklesia is a missional ecumenical gathering of Denton area college Christ Followers.
Together we pray throughout the day and worship in the evening of the first Tuesday of each month. By praying together we join in the mission of God to move on our campus through his people in their prayers, service, and witness to the Gospel. By worshiping together we lay aside our differences to praise and exalt our One Father whose One Spirit indwells each of us seeking a common confession of the One Gospel of the One Son and Savior.
We come together seeking humble unity because that is a witness to the gospel according to Jesus in his last prayer before his betrayal that our unity would show the world the love of God. We are moving for a recognized unified Mission and a Missional Unity moving toward service and love together.
The Long Version
Why Ekklesia?
The 21st century has brought us widespread religious pluralism where undefined spiritualities rule hearts through a market of religious goods. In this age, the chosen people of the one true God, the Church, are divided into denominations and independent congregations and are viewed as separate competing religions among the remaining spiritual choices in a global community. Rather than giving in to the vain spiritual rules of the culture, we listen to the prayer of our Savior King and God, Jesus Christ, in his prayer for his disciples on the eve of his betrayal and passion:
“The glory which You have given me I have given them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
I in them, and you in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved me.T” John 17:22-23
The privileged place that the Church used to hold in society has been removed and the absence of her influence can hardly be seen more clearly than on the college campuses in Denton and across the nation. We recognize that the spiritual wanderers are not attracted to our organizations and programs but can only be attracted to the beauty of God’s people displaying the glory given them by Christ in loving unity that celebrates diversity.
And this kind of mission can only be born out of humble prayer and authentic worship to the One True God perfecting us and sending us.
