Corinthians 2:6 spoke to the whole church on the issue of church discipline for one of the members. Acts 6 when deacons were chosen‚ Acts 15 the church commissioned Paul and Barnabas both of these examples point to Congregationalist government. I think the trinity can be used to support what the church should look like. The Father‚ Son and Holy Spirit all work together and agree to govern the body of believers. Each submits to one another and does not do anything without the other
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candidates for baptism or in teaching children or in day-by-day preaching to the Christian people‚ are entrusted with this most beautiful of all roles: handing on the faith received from the Apostles‚ always and infinitely fruitful even as it was when they themselves received it from Jesus Christ. Like everyone else‚ the believer is able to observe the changes‚ slow or sudden depending on the times‚ in people’s mentalities and interests‚ the variations that occur in language. Without becoming
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Like Father‚ Like Son In the preface of his book‚ Like Father‚ Like Son‚ Tom Smail gives us the reason for his writing: "This book is an attempt to discover what it might mean for our humanity that God is Trinity."(p. xi) He goes on to give his readers a general outline of what he’ll be covering‚ beginning with how the view of Trinitarian doctrine has changed in recent times‚ and ending with a discussion on what we say about the triune God has deep implications with how we handle our relationship
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| Review of:Why You Do The Things You Do Clinton‚ Dr. Tim & Sibcy‚ Dr. Gary. (2006). Why You Do the Things You Do: The Secret of Healthy Relationships. Nashville: Thomas Nelson. Summary Relationships are in our everyday life all around us‚ but the most intimate relationships we have include God‚ our parents‚ our children and our spouse. God implanted the desire for intimacy or relationship within us when He created Adam and Eve. God hardwired the desire for relationship in us because
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Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters is the play about seven related women who live on a reserve and go TO THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD in Toronto. The play takes place during a summer of 1986‚ on the fictional Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve on Manitoulin Island‚ Ontario‚ and provides the portrait of seven Rez sisters who are all related by birth or marriage. The distinct personalities of each character are used to offer the audience a different attitude towards life and their role on the reservation
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Reconciliation comes from the word conciliation‚ which is the action of stopping someone from being angry. When we have reconciliation‚ it means that we restore our relationship to one that enables us to be compatible and friendly with one another again. -Eucharist: The Eucharist is a special sacrament as well as a sacrifice‚ during the Eucharist‚ with the appearances of bread and wine‚ which represent the body and blood of Christ‚ the Lord Christ is contained‚ offered‚ and received. 5 core beliefs
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Gnosticism from the Greek word gnosis‚ meaning “to know”; Gnosticism had certain beliefs which were considered heresy by the early church. Montanism a heresy claiming superior knowledge and a greater perfection than other Christians had Docetism a heresy which believed that Jesus Christ only appeared to be human; a denial of the Incarnation. Arianism a heresy‚ which stated that only the Father is truly God‚ that Christ the Son‚ was not. Sabellianism a heresy which denied the Trinitarian
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Imagine having no limits‚ no limit on anything. This includes the power to create anything‚ be anything‚ anyone who you choose to be. Conjure up any idea possible and think about what it would be like to be able to do it with no remorse‚ no questions‚ no restraint. A plan so unimaginable not any other person could comprehend it. A person so strong no army could stop them. Imagine being so immense they’re unavoidable. It can be hard to fathom anyone being so dominating‚ so in control. In a way that
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to pass by the action of the Three‚ yet what does come to pass is not three things.” Nyssan here asserts that the universe could not be spoken into being without the full cooperation of all three persons of the Trinity. Each part of the Trinity has a distinct job in the Economic Trinity‚ and this strategy is used by Nyssan to emphasize that there truly is one God in three persons‚ unto which “life is wrought in us by the Father‚ and prepared by the Son‚ and depends on the will of the Holy
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religious conflict‚ as shown by the command said by the speaker‚ “Batter my heart‚ three-personed God”. In relation to the rest of the poem‚ one can conclude that the “three-personed God” to which the speaker is referring is a metaphor for the Holy Trinity of the Christian religion; the use of the word “batter” serves as a forerunner to the later violent requests of the speaker. The simile used in line 5 of the poem which compares the speaker to a usurped town shows that the speaker is in an undesired
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