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faith. Don’t stu these questions down and hope they go away. Don’t settle for. less than the good, true, and beautiful found in Jesus Christ.In your deconstruction, you will likely encounter teachings about God that you haven’t heard before, that resonate in a way you hav-en’t felt before, and that promise an.
This tool is from Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert, Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence. This tool draws on material from Diaconal Ministries Canada, “Guidelines for Benevolence.” . 1 TOOL 1: DEVELOPING YOUR CHURCH’S BENEVOLENCE PHILOSOPHY AND POLICIES1 From Helping Without Hurting in Church Benevolence2
a purpose-driven church, built around the five New Testament purposes given to the church by Jesus. “The issue is church health, not church growth!” declares Warren. “If your church is healthy, growth will occur naturally. Healthy, consistent growth is the result of balancing the five biblical purposes of the church.”
present; a consecrated life that can promote what is new, and become utopia that needs to emerge in our present time in the history of the Church and of our peoples. This reflection will be developed in three parts. In the first part we will offer some criteria to try to give a name to the great challenges of consecrated life in our times.
commitment to a particular Jesus-centered way of life. How to Discern and Live a Rule of Life STEP 1: Breathe and Pray. Don’t get hung up on content and format. What matters is prayerfully setting an intentional commitment to orient your life toward God. Note: If you already have a Rule, recommit to that. STEP 2: Set a Specific Intention ...
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1) stuck in the past. Tradition can be a magical idea full of memories and ceremony, bringing a comforting feeling to many in the church. However, tradition should not cause you to be stuck in the past and when a church fails to think about more than the past then it can harm their efforts to grow. We have seen countless church leaders reject ...
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If you are a Christian, you are not your own. Christ has . bought you at the price of his own death. You now belong doubly to God: He made you, and he bought you. That means your life is not your own. It is God’s. Therefore, the Bible says, “Glorify God in your body.” God made you for this. He bought you for this. This is the meaning of ...
