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Defining the Church for Our Time

Name: Defining the Church for Our Time
ISBN: 9781621893769

Origin and Structure, Variety and Viability

Peter Schmiechen,

184 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Defining the Church for Our Time

Origin and Structure, Variety and Viability

Peter Schmiechen,

About this book

The church is broken and we cannot fix it. Faith in God is disconnected from churches. Mainline churches are deeply divided, and their budgets and congregations have diminished, with no agreement for recovery. So what shall we do? It is time to stop talking about the problems and to consider a new vision of the church for our time.This book is a celebration of the church as the community of new life in Christ. It assumes Christ intended to create a community on earth embodying grace and holiness. It begins with a new and inclusive definition of the church as a community enduring in time. It affirms the great variety of churches, all as valid expressions of the new life, and explains how and why churches are formed in different ways. The goal is for churches to celebrate the saving power of Christ and to see the glory of God revealed in the world in our time.

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