Agape Family Fellowship

This includes freedom from past painful experiences, hopelessness, the empty promises of our world, and anything else that would rob us of the satisfying life that Christ offers. Then we can take this new freedom and let it not only propel us into our new identity in Jesus Christ, but also to give us the power and the ability to live it out. God wants to use us to bring His change to this world! W

hat does "Agape" mean? Agape (agápē) is a Greek word (ἀγάπη) that the New Testament uses to describe a certain kind of love, a deep, unconditional love that was the reason Jesus Christ went to the cross for us. This same word is used in John 3:16, in 1 Co 13:1-8 when speaking about the outworking and nature of love, and in 1 John 4:8 to describe God Himself. Isn't that amazing? What is Church? In the New Testament, the Greek word 'ekklēsia' (ἐκκλησία), which we translate as 'Church', is used for the first time when Jesus declares, "Upon this rock I will build my Church" (Matthew 16:18). He's not speaking about a rock or building. The word ekklēsia literally means 'those who are called out'; Jesus is speaking about the people. Church is people doing life together, and moving together in a common direction with a common purpose, functioning together like different parts of one body (1 Co 12:13-15). None of us are are able to make it alone.