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Author | : John Stott |
Publisher | : Inter-Varsity Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2021-04-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1844747654 |
What exactly is a living church? Author John Stott explains, 'We need more radically conservative churches: "conservative" in the sense that they conserve what Scripture plainly requires, but radical in relation to that combination of tradition and convention that we call 'culture'. Scripture is unchangeable, but culture is not.' 'The Living Church' brings together a number of characteristics of what the author calls 'authentic' or 'living' church. The marks, being clearly biblical, are timeless and need to be preserved. We are encouraged to become learning churches, caring churches, worshipping churches and evangelising churches. John Stott unpacks the Bible's wisdom rigorously with a teacher's skill and applies it faithfully with a pastor's heart. Becoming a living church is not an impossible goal.
Author | : John Stott |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830899898 |
John Stott describes the characteristics of an "authentic" or "living" church that conserves Scripture and radically combines tradition and that convention called "culture." He presents the Bible's wisdom with a teacher's skill and applies it with a pastor's heart. Stott shows that becoming a living church is not an impossible goal.
Author | : John Stott |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2011-05-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830838058 |
John Stott describes the characteristics of an "authentic" or "living" church that conserves Scripture and radically combines tradition and that convention called "culture." He presents the Bible's wisdom with a teacher's skill and applies it with a pastor's heart. Stott shows that becoming a living church is not an impossible goal.
Author | : David N. Glesne |
Publisher | : Kirk House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781886513952 |
This book is born out of the experience of one ministering in a congregational setting to the joys and sorrows of people struggling with a variety of life issues— including homosexual experiences. The author addresses the critical questions regarding homosexuality from within the setting of the local church and seeks answers that are consistent with Scriptures and historic Christianity.
Author | : Phillip Cary |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2019-06-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1493416677 |
This book offers a creative and illuminating discussion of Protestant theology. Veteran teacher Phillip Cary explains how Luther's theology arose from the Christian tradition, particularly from the spirituality of Augustine. Luther departed from the Augustinian tradition and inaugurated distinctively Protestant theology when he identified the gospel that gives us Christ as its key concept. More than any other theologian, Luther succeeds in carrying out the Protestant intention of putting faith in the gospel of Christ alone. Cary also explores the consequences of Luther's teachings as they unfold in the history of Protestantism.
Author | : Zac Poonen |
Publisher | : CFCINDIA Bangalore |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : 8190565885 |
Author | : Bishop Michael Curry |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 052554304X |
Walk the path of love with one of the warmest, most beloved spiritual leaders of our time, and learn how to put faith into action. As the descendant of slaves and the son of a civil rights activist, Bishop Michael Curry's life illustrates massive changes in our times. Much of the world met Bishop Curry when he delivered his sermon on the redemptive power of love at the royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle. Here, he expands on his message of hope in an inspirational road map for living the way of love, illuminated with moving lessons from his own life. Through the prism of his faith, ancestry, and personal journey, Love Is the Way shows us how America came this far and, more important, how to go a whole lot further. The way of love is essential for addressing the seemingly insurmountable challenges facing the world today: poverty, racism, selfishness, deep ideological divisions, competing claims to speak for God. This book will lead readers to discover the gifts they need in order to live the way of love: deep reservoirs of hope and resilience, simple wisdom, the discipline of nonviolence, and unshakable regard for human dignity.
Author | : Eugene R. Schlesinger |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2016-12-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1506418597 |
The twenty-first-century church cannot afford to neglect mission. When church and culture no longer share a common outlook, the only way forward is mission. Pope Francis recognizes this in his call for a missionary conversion of the church. Responding to this invitation, is a constructive work in ecclesiology addressing the relationship between liturgy and mission in the church's life. It advances a notion of the church grounded in both liturgy and mission, where neither is subordinated to nor collapsed into the other. The church's liturgical rites disclose and enact the church's identity as a missionary community. Close examination of the sources at the heart of traditional communion ecclesiology: Trinitarian theology, the sacraments of initiation, and eucharistic theology, yields an ecclesiology in which the church is constituted by both liturgy and mission. These are two distinct ways of participating in the triune life of God, which is revealed in the paschal mystery. The church's pilgrimage to God's kingdom takes it through the world in mission. The church, as the body of Christ, is given away to God and to the world, for the world's salvation. The result is a contemporary restatement of traditional ecclesiology, transposed into a missional key.
Author | : Roderick C. Meredith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fasts and feasts |
ISBN | : |
What are the most important days on the Christian calendar? Most would say Christmas and Easter. But the first followers of Jesus Christ observed neither of these days. They followed Christ's example and observed the same holy days that Jesus Christ himself observed! The hol holy days in fact picture, in sequence, the destiny God has planned for all humanity. God himself ordained these holy days for all his people to observe.
Author | : Peter DeHaan |
Publisher | : Peter DeHaan Publishing Inc |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2020-12-13 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1948082470 |
Do you have a nagging feeling that something's missing from your church experience? You're not alone. And it's time to discover a better way. Church-reform advocate and Bible scholar Peter DeHaan, PhD is a strong proponent of meaningful Christian community. In Jesus's Broken Church he uses Scripture to guide us into right practices and away from the off-track customs that most every church adheres to. The problem is that today's church follows an Old Testament model. We go to a building where we have professional clergy serve as our liaison between us and God. Then we pay for the whole thing with our tithes and offerings—just like Moses instructed. But Jesus fulfilled the Old Testament. Through him we are the church, we are living stones. We don't need to go to a building. As the church, we take it with us wherever we go. And we don't need paid clergy either. Each of us serves as priests to one another. Or at least we should. In Jesus's Broken Church, you'll discover: - How Jesus moves us from an Old Testament understanding to New Testament enlightenment - The early church's approach to their meetings, which we neglect to follow today - Essential New Testament practices that are more important than song and sermon - Biblical ideas to inform the activities of our spiritual communities - Seven religious concepts that require reformation If you happen to like how your church functions, then don't buy this book. It will only make you mad. But if you sometimes leave your Sunday service feeling let down, that something is lacking and there must be more, then this book can guide you into a new direction. Get your copy of Jesus's Broken Church today to discover what's missing and how to fix it.