Eutychus Fellowship

Through the years I have become more and more frustrated as well as amused at the numerous churches and the names by which they are called.  Many of the names that I see on churches must have come from some preacher having a bad dream. 

Out of the thousands of names for churches I think the best come from the scriptures themselves.  Certainly throughout the ages spiritually minded people have searched the scriptures to find suitable church names.  There is definitely something positive to be said for churches which have names based directly on some passage of scripture.  Some of the best known ones, of course, are:  Church of God, Church of Christ, Disciples of Christ, The Brethren, Church of the Nazarene, and Church of God in Christ.

Also many churches have the names of biblical places or people.  This is commendable.  I always am appreciative of churches with the names of biblical places such as Beulah, Bethel, Antioch, Ebenezer, Mt. Pisgah, etc.  Commendable also are those names from biblical characters such as St. Paul’s, St. James’, St. Peter’s, Mary’s Chapel, St. Luke’s, etc. 

I am thinking of beginning my own church.  It will definitely have a scriptural name, one which is based squarely on the scriptures, and which denotes something about its adherents.  I think I have found a name in the New Testament that has not yet been used.

Recently in reading the Book of Acts, I came across the passage in Acts 20:7-12 where Paul is preaching at Troas.  A young man was sitting in the third floor window of the building where Paul was preaching.  As Paul’s sermon grew long this young man, whose name was Eutychus, went to sleep and fell out of the window.  Everyone there thought for sure the young man was dead, but thankfully Paul revived him and went back to his sermon which lasted until midnight.

I will call my new church “The Eutychus Fellowship” after the poor young man who went to sleep and fell out of the window while St. Paul was preaching. This church will not only be scripturally true but also true to life as experienced in most churches.

“And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into   a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, …”

Yours for appropriate church names.