I wonder when we pray for forgiveness and review
our actions in a church setting whether we should then have a prayer before we sing our worship songs: «Lord forgive us - we are going to sing this stuff and we have no intention of doing any of it.»?
Not exact matches
The people who resisted the Civil Rights movement
in the south, many of whom used religious arguments, people who classified Blacks as animals, were degraded and debased by their own
actions: turning fire hoses on children,
setting dogs on peaceful marchers, lynching, firebombing
churches...
When Martin Luther nailed his lengthy list of doctrinal objections to the
church door in Wittenberg, he probably never imagined that his actions would set in motion a train of events which would rend the Western Church in two for the next 500
church door
in Wittenberg, he probably never imagined that his
actions would
set in motion a train of events which would rend the Western
Church in two for the next 500
Church in two for the next 500 years.
In word and
action Jesus
sets the handicapped directly within the circle of unity of the Christian
church.
What I propose to do here is to
set down the working faith which the Christian tradition has about health and community; to list some of the pioneer areas where
church - related community mental health programs are operating; to outline one such project
in order to illustrate the design and plan of such training; and finally to suggest
action steps and resources for those interested
in going further.