The Covenant Community
A basic tool for interpreting the bible is the concept of the life setting of the passage (Sitz im Lieben). This principle basically says that the meaning of the passage can only ...
... Does it help you understand it better?
What is the Bible?
Here are some questions to reflect on. Frequently there isn't a right answer.
If the bible was created for the covenant communit ...
... fs and the vision of a community of their God. However it is not worship. Worship may occur within a Sunday service or it may occur elsewhere. It is important to realise that worship is not orchestrated rat ...
... equivalent to that of worship.
If a church has a mission program directed towards a group within the community, and that program does not occur on a weekly basis, what is the reaction of that church? ...
... n who count themselves as affiliated to a church but who are not integrated into a Christian community.
The other major religions are increasing at a rapid rate with increases of between 5. ...
... emselves deeply moved by the life of these monks. Before long, people were coming from far and wide to be nourished by the prayer life of the monks and young men were asking, once again, to become part ...
... reat sayings we have had over the past years.
"We are to be Jesus hands and feet" "We are to be a people of grace" "We are to be a Church without walls reaching out to the community and allowing the ...
... Naturally there was a big uproar from the Jewish community. So the Pope made a deal. He would have a religious debate with a member of the Jewish community. If the Jew won, the Jews could stay. If the P ...
... ith their large numbers, emotive community singing were very conducive to a response to evangelism. It has been suggested that the Calvinists realized from the New Testament that no techniques could produce ...
... Priest (HP) installed under Solomon 1K 2:35
- In Ezekiel the Zadokites are to be the priests for the future community (en passim Ez 40-48)
- the Zadokites were instrumental in the reconstruction of ...
... end it was translated by seventy two scholars in seventy two days.
- location was Alexandria in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus.285-246BC
- after the translation, it was read to the community of ...
... rifice this being replaced with prayers and reading of the Torah
- it also formed a community centre where people could gather to discuss issues
- there is no record of the beginning of the synago ...
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d. Evidence of trade in purple.
Philippians 1:1 - 11
1) Inclusiveness of the greeting and prayers - 1:1
a. All the saints - the whole community, no rank or distinction.
b. Overseers and deacons ...
... in the community. Certainly in the way of brains and insight, Peter could not be described as exceptional - he continually makes serious mistakes. What is clear is that his heart attitude and his willingness ...
Governance Models for the Covenant Community
It is sometimes easy to think that the way we do things in our church is the only way and that our way is the God given way from the bible. Looking the period ...
... tionship, love to each other or consideration, that instead is highly divisive and political may have a description of the current culture including a lack of christian love, a lack of christian communit ...