Timothy 3:5. In speaking of a local elder in a local congregation, Paul wrote Timothy: “For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the CHURCH OF GOD?
9) 1 Timothy 3:15. “…behave thyself in the house of God, which is the CHURCH OF THE LIVING GOD.” Here it is the Church of the Living God. In speaking of the local congregations collectively, not as one general Body, but as the total of all local congregations, the Bible name is “THE CHURCH OF GOD.” Here are the final three verses of the twelve which name the Church: 10) 1 Corinthians 11:16. “…we have no such custom, neither THE CHURCHES OF GOD.” 11) 1 Thessalonians 2:14. “For ye, brethren, became followers of The CHURCHES OF GOD which IN JUDAEA are in Christ Jesus.” 12) 2 Thessalonians 1:4. “So that we ourselves glory in you in the CHURCHES OF GOD.
