The apostolate is the heart and soul of
the corporate body of the church.
Not exact matches
Any exploration
of congregational world view therefore requires attention to the way a
church sees and deals with its individual members, its
corporate body, and the wider world.
The liturgy is being re-established little by little, in the minds
of God's people as the
corporate worship not just
of the local but
of the whole
Body of Christ, the universal
Church, reaching across time and space and into heaven itself:
Since Christ and Messiah are kingly terms, when Paul speaks
of the
corporate life
of Christ in the
church, he is also thinking
of the rule and reign
of God on earth through the
body of Christ, the
church.
Our responsibility to take care
of the poor is a personal one and a
corporate one in the sense
of the
body of the
Church — not a national one in the sense
of putting a gun to the heads
of our neighbors and with it, forcing them to do as we think is right.
The Roman Catholics wont allow me take Mass in their
Church I do not care, I still go periodically and sill love it, why, because in spite
of the idiosyncrasies we are all together, weather it be with a right or wrong heart, that does not matter, we are
corporate, one
body, warts and all and God Loves it.
The
church, the
corporate body of Christ, is a voice that calls for the wandering to return and then hosts the restoration banquet.
Many protestant
churches are now realizing (and have for some time) that this is an integral part
of discipleship
of their
corporate body through one - on - one meetings.
By the
Church Commissioners Measure 1947, the Corporation
of the Governors
of the Bounty
of Queen Anne was united with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England in a newly established
body corporate by the name
of the
Church Commissioners for England.