Great post Hope. I see you've done your homework. Your words about ecclesia being in common currency as a political assembly (in Athens) is right on. Of course the writers of the NT used words in common currency back in those days. We could say we owe a lot to those damn pagans back then. Even the name for God in the NT came from those pagans (as does all the names of God in the Bible.) Gratitude is in order : "Lord, thanks for the pagans."
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I doubt if many of the practices in the New Testament were meant to be templates to overlay our practice today.
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When you think about this, how could it? Calculating known population numbers backwards there were less than 200 million on the earth back then. And that includes lands that weren't even known to exist back then, to those in the Bible area, like the Americas. So world population back then was 2/3rds of the population of just America today, which is only 4 percent of today's world population.
And everyone wasn't Christian back then. It's doubtful that the number of Christians back then would even warrant an entry into world statistics today.
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According to James, the Lord’s brother, Jerusalem had tens of thousands of believers. They did not have a facility where all could assemble at the same time.
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So today it's actually impossible for all Christians in one city to all assemble together in one place.
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So brothers and sister what shall we do? We surely need the leading of the Lord, the supply of the Spirit, the Word of God, and much prayer and fellowship. May we always assemble for better and not for the worse.
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I don't even know if assembling is as required as it was back then. Communication was so primitive back then compared to today that fellowship required assembling. But today we can communicate in many ways. I have to admit that today my best fellowship is over the phone, or Skype, or some such. I assemble with Christians to be a part of a group, but my best fellowship is over the phone or something like it.
I doubt that the writers of the NT were even able to imagine that believers would be using their books as a standard 2000 years later.
Brother Hope, you ask "what shall we do?" Thankfully Christianity is not a fixed religion like Judaism. Christianity is not based upon fixed law. It's based upon the outpoured living Spirit. So we have everything we need to go on from here. The Lord gave it to us. Follow the Spirit is your answer brother Hope.