Sure Sounds Like Church
To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons: Philippians 1:1b NASB Oversees and deacons – Some English Bibles probably translate this as “bishops and deacons” since the Greek is epískopos and diákonos, but the “Christian” Church didn’t exist when Paul wrote to the assembly in Phillipi, so what could these words mean outside their later Christianization? What do…
