Not exact matches
No uniform pattern emerges, but the variety will be a source of ferment as the Holiness and Pentecostal
churches continue to assert themselves and to emerge
from isolation to claim a significant place among
other churches of Christendom.
In a way, we are like Merton who are living as kind of hermits out in the world, many of us in
isolation from other Christians and
church communities.
This is not the only description of the
church in the New Testament, and it must not be taken in
isolation from many
others: «Family of God,» «Bride of Christ,» «new Israel,» «household of faith,» «temple of God,» and so on.