Sentences with phrase «emerging churches often»

Thus, emerging churches often characterize themselves as «ancient - future,» a phrase that comes from a series of books authored by Webber (Ancient - Future Faith, Ancient - Future Evangelism, Ancient - Future Time).

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The effect in English «Latin Mass circles», however, isn't the most important issue on which we need to focus, though I agree that it does show that there is something remarkably «mean - spirited» in the air, a fact which also emerged strongly in widespread attempts to frustrate the motu proprio; it also shows that although that many - faced and mysterious entity we tend simply to call «Rome» can sometimes be relied on to defend us from reductionist tendencies in the English and Welsh Church, it is also the case that all too often it can't.

To be sure, it has often been argued that it does not really matter whether Jesus lived — that we have emerging in the Gospels and in the tradition of the church a certain portrait of him and only the portrait is important.

That God is both good and powerful is taken for granted in the black church, and if any inexplicable contradiction emerges, black Christians always appeal to God's mystery, quoting the often repeated lines, «God moves in a mysterious way.»

Only when we see global South Christianity on its own terms — as opposed to asking how it can contribute to our own debates — can we see how the emerging churches are formulating their own responses to social and religious questions, and how these issues are often viewed through a biblical lens.

She has been presenting her works in churches and on LED billboards, and her videos often emerge in unexpected places such as toilets, liquor bottles, and handbags.