Jesus’ second use of the word church presents important additional information about the nature of the church. Not only is the church a “group of people,” but God speaks of the church in two senses a general sense (all who are saved) and a specific sense (the saved who are joined together in a specific local).

1. “Tell it to the
Church”
Matthew 18.15-17, CB NT p. 35

2. Brother sins against me
Go & tell Doesn’t
listen
him his fault
Take 1 or 2 Refuses to
Listens
witnesses listen
Listens
Tell it to Refuses to
s the church listen
st en
Li
Gained your Let him be as a Gentile
brother & tax collector

3. Brother sins against me
Go & tell Doesn’t
listen
him his fault
Take 1 or 2 Refuses to
Listens
witnesses listen
Listens
Tell it to Refuses to
s the church listen
st en
Li
Gained your Let him be as a Gentile
brother & tax collector

4. Brother sins against me
Go & tell Doesn’t
listen
him his fault
Take 1 or 2 Refuses to
Listens
witnesses listen
Listens
Tell it to Refuses to
s the church listen
st en
Li
Gained your Let him be as a Gentile
brother & tax collector

5. Brother sins against me
Go & tell Doesn’t
listen
him his fault
Take 1 or 2 Refuses to
Listens
witnesses listen
Listens
Tell it to Refuses to
s the church listen
st en
Li
Gained your Let him be as a Gentile
brother & tax collector

6. “I will build my church”
Matthew 16.18, CB NT p. 32
“tell it to the church ...
listen even to the church”
Matthew 18.17, CB NT p. 32

7. “I will build my church”
Matthew 16.18, CB NT p. 32
What does Jesus mean by
“church” in a general sense?

8. God
Sin

9. God
Believe &
Jesus Baptized

10. God

11. God

12. God
Uses of
“church” in a
GENERAL
sense.
“I will build My church”
Matthew 16.18, CB NT p. 32

13. God
Uses of
“church” in a
GENERAL
sense.
“I persecuted the church of God”
Galatians 1.13, CB NT p. 328

14. God
Uses of
“church” in a
GENERAL
sense.
“the general assembly and church of
the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven”
Hebrews 12.23 (ASV), CB NT p. 397

15. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Uses of
“church” in a
GENERAL
sense.
“And the dead in Christ will rise first.”
1 Thessalonians 4.16, CB NT p. 359

16. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Uses of
“church” in a
GENERAL
sense.
“There is one body”
Ephesians 4.4, CB NT p. 339

17. “tell it to the church ...
listen even to the church”
Matthew 18.17, CB NT p. 32
What does Jesus mean by
“church” in a specific sense?

18. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Jerusalem
“the church in Jerusalem”
Acts 11.22, CB NT p. 229

19. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Antioch
Jerusalem
“he brought him to Antioch ... they
met with the church”
Acts 11.26, CB NT p. 229

20. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Antioch
“To the
Jerusalem church of
God that is
in Corinth”
Corinth 1 Corinthians 1.2,
CB NT p. 289

21. God “dead in Christ” to be
“called
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
saints
together
with all
those who in
Antioch every place
call upon the
name of our
Jerusalem
Lord Jesus
Christ”
Corinth 1 Corinthians 1.2,
CB NT p. 289

22. God “dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
Antioch
Jerusalem
Corinth

23. A concept of the church
that is NOT found in the
Bible.

24. God
Lutheran
Methodist
Episcopal
Baptist Assembly
of God
Presbyterian
The church is NOT all the
various denominations.

25. “there is one mediator
between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus”
1 Timothy 2.5, CB NT p. 365

26. God
Lutheran
Methodist
Episcopal
Baptist Assembly
of God
Presbyterian
The church is NOT all the
various denominations.

27. God
local local
church church
local local
church church
The general church is NOT all
the specific churches.

28. God “tell it to
“dead in Christ”
(1 Thessalonians 4.16)
the
“I will
church ...
listen my
build
Antioch church”
even to
Matthew
the CB NT
16.18,
Jerusalem
church”32
p.
Matthew
Corinth 18.17, CB NT
p. 32

29. Will today be the
day you decide to
go to heaven?

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32. Compiled and Presented by:
Fellowship with Man: Church Dave Stewart
3 October, 2010
#06 Las Cruces, NM
www.churchofchristmiranda.com
“Tell it to the Church”
Matthew 18.15-18
Synopsis: Jesus’ second use of the word church presents important
additional information about the nature of the church. Not only is the
church a “group of people,” but God speaks of the church in two senses a
general sense (all who are saved) and a specific sense (the saved who are
joined together in a specific local).
“Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright
© 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”
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