Social Discipline in the Christian Community
Author: Malcolm Spencer
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Malcolm Spencer
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jonathan Leeman
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2012-04-30
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1433532360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore and more church leaders, pastors, and members are looking for guidance on how to practice church discipline in a biblical way. Here is a contemporary and concise how-to guide that provides a theological framework for understanding and implementing disciplinary measures in the local church, along with several examples of real-life situations. Drawing on both Matthew 18 and 1 Corinthians 5, this brief hardback helps leaders face the endless variety of circumstances and sins for which no exact scriptural case study exists, sins which don't show up on any list and need a healthy framework to be corrected appropriately in love. This volume is part of the 9Marks: Building Healthy Churches series. Look for upcoming, quick-read formats of the following marks of a healthy church: expositional preaching, biblical theology, the gospel, conversion, evangelism, church membership, discipleship and growth, and church leadership.
Author: Robert McCune Kingdon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780674005211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time. The first is to the history of divorce. The second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva--an institution designed to control in all its variety the behavior of the entire population--which was established at Calvin's insistence in 1541. This mandate came shortly after the city officially adopted Protestantism in 1536, a time when divorce became legally possible for the first time in centuries. Robert Kingdon illustrates the changes that accompanied the earliest Calvinist divorces by examining in depth a few of the most dramatic cases and showing how divorce affected real individuals. He considers first, and in the most detail, divorce for adultery, the best-known grounds for divorce and the best documented. He also covers the only other generally accepted grounds for these early divorces--desertion. The second contribution of the book, to show the work of the Consistory of Geneva, is a first step toward a fuller study of the institution. Kingdon has supervised the first accurate and complete transcription of the twenty-one volumes of registers of the Consistory and has made the first extended use of these materials, as well as other documents that have never before been so fully utilized.
Author: Michael Frost
Publisher: NavPress
Published: 2018-09-04
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1631468537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJesus is different. Go and do likewise. Many Christians have become comfortable letting the world mold them instead of being set apart by God. And many churches have traded in their biblical roots for complacent conventionality. But Jesus and the church are anything but conventional. The hallmark of our faith is that it sees the world differently than the world sees itself. We are called to be eccentric—off center, unique, different; not conformed to the patterns of the world but transformed by the renewing of our minds. By the grace of God we are not only dissatisfied by sin but increasingly uncompelled by conventionality. So resist the allure of acceptability. Get back to the unsafe roots of our faith. Be equipped to surprise the world with the Good News it didn’t even know it was waiting for. Challenge the way things are by living a life that has been truly set free by Christ.
Author: Todd Miles
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 146275080X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComic superheroes embody the hopes of a world that is desperate for a savior. But those comic creations cannot save us from our greatest foes—sin and death. Throughout the history of the Church there have been bad ideas, misconceptions, and heretical presentations of Jesus. Each one of these heresies fails to present Jesus as the Bible reveals him. In Superheroes Can’t Save You, Todd Miles demonstrates how these ancient heresies are embodied in contemporary comic superheroes. Miles compares something everybody already knows (who the superheroes are) with what they need to know (who Jesus is), in a book that makes vitally important Christian truths understandable and applicable to a wide audience.
Author: United Methodist Church (U.S.)
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 616
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles H. Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-11-28
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521623056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended to care for their own church members, who were by definition 'within the household of faith', through the deaconate, a confessional relief agency. This book examines the relationship between municipal and ecclesiastical relief agencies in the six chief cities of Holland - Dordrecht, Haarlem, Delft, Leiden, Amsterdam and Gouda - from the public establishment of the Reformed Church in 1572 to the aftermath of the Synod of Dort. The author argues that the conflict between charitable organizations reveal competing conceptions of Christian community that came to the fore as a result of the Dutch Reformation. This is the first comparative study of poor relief in Holland, which contributes to our understanding of the Reformation throughout Europe.
Author: Adam G. White
Publisher: Fortress Academic
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781978711921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Adam G. White examines Paul's practice of community discipline in light of similar practices in the broader Graeco-Roman context and argues that what we see in Paul's communities is both similar and unique to contemporary practices.
Author: Johann Peter Lange
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 506
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 506
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