"Every church has spectator Christians in attendance and being a disciple of Jesus isn't for spectators," Eastburn asserts. He believes the core lesson from the study is that a church of any size can become complacent about challenging its members to deeper personal relationships with Jesus Christ. "It is a painful reminder," he continues, "that every church must never neglect its basic purpose - making disciples."
Read more2. The Federation will seek to maintain the Patronage of orthodox Primates in the Anglican Communion. Such patronage will be for the purpose of expanding fellowship with those in the Anglican Communion and working in concert with the godly projects and programs of the Archbishops primarily in the Global South.
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Read more3. The Church has always taught and known from Scripture that Christ's offering of himself was a ransom to free those held hostage to sin and death.
4. The Church has always taught and known from Scripture that Christ's offering of himself was the victory, as Christus Victor; and that it is one act with his resurrection.
Read moreIn the words of Bishop Duncan, this means that a framework, or "skeleton" has been put in place around which a living Church will be built. This "skeleton" is governed by six key principles.
Read moreThe philosophical and theological premise of Holy Scripture is that God is Himself eternally self-existent, a doctrine called aseity. Before creation of the universe, time, or of any living creature God was, is and ever shall be from all eternity and into all eternity. He needs nothing to exist nor anything to sustain Him. He is eternally happy within the relationship of the divine trinity of persons.
Read moreSome would dismiss this suggestion as mischievous. However, we must ask ourselves on what grounds we might resist it if God is truly 'beyond gender' and our language for God must avoid mis-statements about God's nature.
Read moreThe first co-consecration was that of Bishop Graham-Brown, a well known Anglican of the Evangelical party (as it was defined in the 1930s, which is considerably different from how contemporary Reassereters have redefined it).
Read moreMedieval times: The Crusades were violent and led to atrocities by the modern world's standards under the banner of the cross and in the name of Christianity. But the Crusades were a counterattack on Islam. Muslim invasions and atrocities against Christians were on the rise in the decades before the launch of the Crusades in 1096. More often than not, this argument puts an end to any discussion regarding whether violence and intolerance are unique to Islam.
Read more1841. The Rev. N. H. Cobbs. Nominated Missionary Bishop of Texas by the House of Bishops. The House of Deputies declared by resolution that it was “inexpedient to go into an election at that time,” and no further action was taken.
Well, maybe. But the Church has always been active in public life, standing against wrongdoing in the culture. And there have always been people who resented that.
Sanderson also states that the "de-baptism" rite is meant to "mock the practice of baptizing infants too young to consent." But again, infant baptism has long been a subject of debate within the Church. There's nothing new about that either.
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