New York candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon speaks during her first campaign stop at the Bethesda
Healing Center Church Tuesday in Brooklyn.
Not exact matches
It seems to me lately that the songs we sing at my
church are all: fill me, bless me,
heal me... They are not God
centered but self
centered.
Such groups are the ideal method for a
church that wants to be true to its mission — that of becoming a
center of
healing, and growth and training for helping others.)
Relationship -
centered preaching and teaching is another thrust in
churches and temples with the growth -
healing commitment.
The immense mental health contributions of organized religion will be released only as increasing numbers of
churches and temples become
centers of
healing and growth —
centers for
healing the brokenness of individuals and relationships, and settings where persons find stimulation for lifelong growth toward their fullest humanity.
The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal
Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal
Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the
church as a
healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential
Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.
When this occurs, the spirit of Christian community flourishes in the many facets of a
church's program, causing it to become a
center of
healing and growth.
Only as increasing numbers of us catch this vision and accept this challenge — to be where the action is in the
church — can our congregations become redemptive communities,
centers of help and
healing.
Above all, it is convinced that there is need for radical mending and
healing all round —
healing of the
church and its traditions and thinking,
healing of society and its
centers of vitality and of suffering, and
healing of the university and its pursuit of education, knowledge and understanding.
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