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Barna Ventures into Mainline Study
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Scot McKnight
A new study from George Barna on Mainline churches…. Since the 1950s, however, mainline churches have fallen on hard times, declining from more than 80,000 churches to about 72,000 today. The growth among evangelical and Pentecostal churches since the 1950s, combined with the shrinking of the mainline sector, has diminished mainline churches to just one-fifth…
The Age of the Spirit – Sacrament and Mission (RJS)
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Jesus Creed Admin
We are moving from an age of belief to an age of the Spirit. We are open to the Spirit and pray for the work and power of the Spirit. An Age of the Spirit doesn’t mean laissez faire anything goes spirituality. Nor does it mean Charismatic Christianity with speaking in tongues, prayer languages, prophecy,…
Faith and the Future 4 (RJS)
By
Jesus Creed Admin
Today’s post wraps up our brief series on Harvey Cox’s new book The Future of Faith. The last several chapters of the book, and in fact various passages throughout the book, present some of Cox’s thoughts on the future of faith – and more specifically his hopes for the future of the Christian faith. Today…
Faith and the Future 3 (RJS)
By
Jesus Creed Admin
The central portion of Harvey Cox’s new book The Future of Faith lays out the New Perspective on The Church – which is no longer new. It is broad brush summarized as follows: Jesus taught and enacted a kingdom vision. His immediate followers were committed to this vision Paul’s disavowal of the necessity to submit…
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