Gregg had served as executive regional minister of the American Baptist Churches of Metro Chicago for seven years.

NEWTON STRIKES BACK; HE CONDEMNS NARROWNESS AND BIGOTRY IN HIS CHURCH. POLITY, HE SAYS, IS OF SMALL ACCOUNT, ELSE CHRIST WOULD HAVE GIVEN THE PATTERN -- THERE IS BUT ONE FLOCK AND ONE MASTER.

Regenerate church membership was a universal Christian doctrine. Ironically, the people today who promote it the most don’t ...

Looking through this book reminds me that no one from 16th-century Anabaptism lived long enough to write a systematic theology. None of the first Anabaptists was free to form a polity for the future ...

Celebration itself had grown from one church into a chain with nearly 20,000 members and normally donated $150,000 to $200,000 to ARC each year, the lawsuit claimed.

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It is humbling to realize that no church polity, size, or structure can filter out conflict or corruption entirely. Even nondenominational churches and networks face these realities.

This book will que (e)ry the methodologies of reports such as the Pilling Report, set in the context of earlier church reports on sexuality and later analysis of the fallout from the liturgical ...

The United Methodist Church is in its General Conference at the end of April into May, where hugely significant issues of its polity are slated to go under review.

Due to evolving church polity, or governance standards, and awareness of patterns of clergy abuse, Goudzwaard is wary about retroactively applying present-day frameworks onto 10- to 20-year-old ...

Due to evolving church polity, or governance standards, and awareness of patterns of clergy abuse, Goudzwaard is wary about retroactively applying present-day frameworks onto 10- to 20-year-old ...