User:Davelibby/Local ecclesia

A local ecclesia is a manner of tying the idea of a local church, which described the congregational gatherings of a town during the earlier British colonial period into the historical Ancient Greek concept of the ecclesia or civic gathering of all the people in ancient Greek City-states. Meant to establish the authority of the local church, the idea of the local ecclesia is a manner of using a decidedly English term "local" alongside the biblical Ancient Greek term "ecclesia" to confirm both its biblical basis as well as its English function.