Sentences with phrase «of emerging churches»

I get the privilege of hanging out with a lot of emerging churches and twenty something ministries.

I've been part of the emerging church (and I kind of still am in the truest sense of the word) but sang its swan song while secretly hoping for its resurrection.

He was an important part of the Emerging Church conversation back in its North American heyday.

I can assure you that the latter is based more on popular misrepresentations of the emerging church movement than on the actual thoughts and attitudes of most of those who consider themselves a part of it, including myself.

You are about to become the laughing stock of the Emerging Church Movement... you are committing professional suicide.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

No, instead, these came from the writings of emerging church leader Brian McLaren in the book he cowrote with Tony Campolo entitled Adventures in Missing the Point.

He may be the father of the Emerging Church movement, and people who are aware of him think that he is either a genius or a heretic.

I think that the people in some of the more progressive wings of the emerging church would consider me an outsider critic, but a critic who is honest.

But for many of the Emergent leaders, the convention's flashiness did more to confuse than to clarify the nature of the emerging church.

People who like the sound of the Emerging Church read books that support the Emerging Church.

People who don't like the sound of the Emerging Church read books against the Emerging Church.

Be careful of the emerging church that is creeping up these days try to find out more information about them before you attend

Is missional a new, more mature strain of the emerging church movement?

The theological remnants of the Emerging Church.

Anyone who is curious about the theological and philosophical underpinnings of the emerging church movement will benefit from Rollins» fresh and intelligent approach to the subject.

As they took their places as new members of the emerging church, the pattern of organization of the believing community began gradually to take shape.

Not exact matches

A headstrong figure, the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of a Ross Perot, might emerge and insist that the whole church follow his way or die.

The topics and texts include some esoteric items, such as the ranking of churches and discussion about a common calendar; but they also include problems that emerge from adapting an ancient faith to a modern reality — like precepts of fasting and, in particular, regulations of marriage in a multicultural and interreligious world.

Pull up a bean bag, grab a coffee and chat with us for a while about Emerging Church, Blogging, Faith and other General Silliness from South of the Equator.»

With the esteemed position that the earth was at the center of the universe proven false, the church lost both prestige and credibility to emerging science.

The picture of the Church that emerged was distorted by this apologetic context — too much emphasis was being given to points that were disputed (the authority of the pope, for example) and not enough given to other important points (such as the nature of the local churches).

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If Jesus were alive today, what do you think he would have preferred this church to do with their time and money: (a) help the poor, feed the hungry, tend to the sick, contribute to the community; (b) build a huge statue of Himself emerging from a pond?

Or are captured by the fact that we meet in a downtown L.A. club called the Mayan, defined by the thousands of pagan gods that cover the entire complex, and label us an emerging church.

Beginning with Friedrich Schleiermacher in a letter published in 1807, biblical textual critics and scholars examining the texts fail to find their vocabulary and literary style similar to Paul's unquestionably authentic letters, fail to fit the life situation of Paul in the epistles into Paul's reconstructed biography, and identify principles of the emerged Christian church rather than those of the apostolic generation.

Borrowing from the work of sociologist Donald Miller, Wells sees «postmodern spirituality» at work in emerging, extra-denominational «new paradigm churches» characterized by three modes of thinking» the therapeutic, the individualistic, and the anti-establishmentarian.

The far - from - impressive picture of liberal churches that emerges from these data is that they are inhabited by aging, not very committed members, many of whom are headed out the church door.

Catholic universities adopt many of their practices from the general context of higher education in the United States and around the world; since they emerge from the Church and draw from the heritage and teaching of the Church, it should not be surprising to non «Catholics that the Catholic universities also relate features of Catholic heritage to the university.

In a statement from St James & Emmanuel, the church Lizzie was part of, the clergy team explained that it had emerged following her death «that part of her struggle was a battle to reconcile her faith with her emerging sexuality».

Would you do anything about training to get the church leaders of the future ready for an emerging Cchurch leaders of the future ready for an emerging ChurchChurch?

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Community has to emerge out of a oneness of spirit, which is what the early church had.

No sooner had I finished my piece for Faith magazine's last issue (in which, my readers may recall, I encouraged Polish Catholics to keep themselves at arms length from the secularised and indifferentist ethos of many English dioceses) than news emerged that one English bishop at least had done something to try to address the problem, and that he had in the process aroused the kind of secularist hostility which is, I strongly suspect, — certainly in this country — the only really reliable sign that the Catholic Church is being faithful to its vocation.

In the emerging reality as experienced in the Indian society the Church of North India has made attempts to respond to the challenges.

How did a young Dutchman emerge from the somewhat chaotic situation of the Church in the Netherlands?

CNN: Jeremy Lin emerges as emblem of burgeoning Asian - American Christianity Lin, who had been baptized into an evangelical Chinese church near San Francisco in ninth grade and had come to value Christian fellowship through his youth group, was part of the Harvard - Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship group, regularly attending Bible study.

I will go with the brothers and sisters that believe in open source church, emerging into the new space of participation and authenticity, conversation and relationship.

The Church and the sacraments are simply the concrete expression of this emerging «Christosphere».

Initially, I was caught off guard that this thread turned into being about public figures from Emergent Village who gained some degree of national - level prominence coming out of the «emerging church» movement.

I suppose what ended up being for me a rather free - for - all melee, instead of a real experience of communion with like - minded and ostensibly like - hearted folks, is sort of an object lesson that ended up characterizing most of the rest of my journey in Emerging church circles.

Beyond the considerable body of research that has emerged in the past three decades which demonstrates that women played a far more generous role in the early Church than perhaps Neuhaus has imagined, my own Wesleyan holiness tradition has apparently escaped his ecumenical vision as well for it was already ordaining women in the nineteenth century.

Can the church be an agent of transformation in this period of crisis, enabling men to avoid the perils and to inherit the promises of the emerging world society?

As you may know, one of the most talked - about debates between the traditional church and the emerging church has to do with the gospel.

There is an alternative to this situation, an alternative that can emerge when the church affirms some fundamental aspects of the faith.

Her involvement with the emerging church and Emergent Village has filled the better part of 10 years.

Having grown up in the conservative evangelical subculture that cast salvation as little more than a ticket out of hell that you cash in on Judgment Day, I've personally been enthralled and challenged by the emerging church's perspective on the Kingdom of God.

Creeds, the canon of scripture (the books accepted as the official Bible) and the institutional structure of the church emerged only toward the end of the second century.

Like a lot of twenty - somethings who grew up in the conservative evangelical subculture, I've been increasingly drawn to the emerging church movement.

As a writer and editor for Time, Conde Nast Portfolio, and Fast Company, he has compiled a portfolio that includes stories on megahit - making Swedish songwriters (a piece for which he went clubbing in Stockholm); James Bond (for which he stood on a Spanish beach and watched Halle Berry emerge from the waves over and over and over); undercover missionaries in the Arab world (he traveled to North Africa and went to church); and the decline of Christianity in Europe (he prayed).