How outward church forms meet inner life to shape worship, authority, and community.
This book examines the relationship between the visible church and the invisible harmony of believers. It argues that true church life blends public worship, governance, and service with personal faith, love, and mutual accountability.
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Excerpt from New Testament Churchmanship and the Principles Upon Which It Was Founded
But if the Roman Church has gone too far in one direction, Protestantism, not even excepting the Anglican Communion, has gone too far in the other. The Roman Church gradually lost the Spirit of apostolic truth, while she preserved the letter of formal orthodoxy. Losing the Spirit, She lost, also, those things which are especially revealed by the Spirit of God; and then followed, naturally, the corruption Of those truths which were unspiritually held. The Protestants, on the other hand, in their intense desire to recover the spiritual, lost the true meaning of the outward in relation to the inward, and then fell into the error of making their Own subjective impressions the ultimate criterion of the.
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Excerpt from New Testament Churchmanship and the Principles Upon Which It Was Founded
Western Christendom, through the dominating influences of the Church of Rome, during the past thousand years has witnessed the gradual substitution of another type of Christianity for that of apostolic days. In the Apostolic Church itself, a true balance was preserved between the inward or subjective, and the outward or objective, religious life of the Church, and we read that, under the influences of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Truth, those baptized on the Day of Pentecost continued steadfastly in the Apostles doctrine and fellowship and in the breaking of bread and in prayers. This is a fundamental principle of the religion of Christ. The inward and outward are so bound together in His Incarnation that they are mutually dependent upon one another; nor can the highest spiritual life, which is life in Christ, be fully attained save through their union. Each, without the other, gives rise to an abnormal, one-sided development of religion; and this has been the error into which the Roman Church has fallen.
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Paperback. Condición: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the concept of New Testament Churchmanship, a doctrine that emerged after the Reformation that sought to differentiate between church principles set forth in the New Testament from those of the Roman Catholic Church. The author focuses on New Testament Churchmanship as an intermediate doctrine between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, a movement towards a more inward spirituality that was still grounded in the beliefs of the early Christian Church. The book examines the idea of Jesus Christ as the head of the Church and analyzes the role of the Church in the life of a Christian. It highlights the importance of the Holy Scriptures and the Church as the custodian of the faith. The author asserts that the doctrine of New Testament Churchmanship is based on a true understanding of the Incarnation and the Virgin Birth, and argues that the acceptance of the miraculous birth of Christ is not only essential to the integrity of the gospel narratives but also to a proper understanding of the meaning of the Incarnation. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9781331667032_0
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