Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author : George Punchard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2022-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752564083
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Author : Williston Walker
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN :
Author : George Punchard
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 1841
Category : Congregationalism
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Leeman
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1433686228
Church membership is not just a status, it’s an office. Leaders shouldn’t fire members from the responsibilities given to them by Jesus—they should train them! When members are trained, the church grows in holiness and love, discipleship and mission. Complacency and nominalism are diminished. Jesus gives every church member an office in the church’s government: to assume final responsibility for guarding the what and the who of the gospel in the church and its ministry. Similarly, Jesus gives leaders to the church for equipping the members to do this church-building and mission-accomplishing work. In our day, the tasks of reinvigorating congregational authority and elder authority must work together. The vision of congregationalism pictured in this book offers an integrated view of the Christian life. Congregationalism is biblical, but biblical congregationalism just might look a little different than you expect. It is nothing less than Jesus’ authorization for living out his kingdom rule among a people on mission.
Author : Margaret Bendroth
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 146962401X
Congregationalists, the oldest group of American Protestants, are the heirs of New England's first founders. While they were key characters in the story of early American history, from Plymouth Rock and the founding of Harvard and Yale to the Revolutionary War, their luster and numbers have faded. But Margaret Bendroth's critical history of Congregationalism over the past two centuries reveals how the denomination is essential for understanding mainline Protestantism in the making. Bendroth chronicles how the New England Puritans, known for their moral and doctrinal rigor, came to be the antecedents of the United Church of Christ, one of the most liberal of all Protestant denominations today. The demands of competition in the American religious marketplace spurred Congregationalists, Bendroth argues, to face their distinctive history. By engaging deeply with their denomination's storied past, they recast their modern identity. The soul-searching took diverse forms--from letter writing and eloquent sermonizing to Pilgrim-celebrating Thanksgiving pageants--as Congregationalists renegotiated old obligations to their seventeenth-century spiritual ancestors. The result was a modern piety that stood a respectful but ironic distance from the past and made a crucial contribution to the American ethos of religious tolerance.
Author : Horace Bushnell
Publisher :
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Child rearing
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Author : Philip Doddridge
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 1814
Category : Christian life
ISBN :
Author : Philip Schaff
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 39,70 MB
Release : 1894
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : Edward E. Cleal
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Boston (Mass. )
ISBN :