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Disciples: Reclaiming Our Identity, Reforming Our Practice - download pdf or read online

By Dr. Jan Linn,Rev. Dr. Michael Kinnamon

ISBN-10: 0827206356

ISBN-13: 9780827206359

revered Disciples Michael Kinnamon and Jan Linn suggest reclaiming the Disciples movement's identification in a fashion that encourages reform of worship, relationships, and venture. With compliment for the founding leaders' willingness "to persist with their imaginative and prescient of what it intended to be church of their personal time in history," the authors name at the denomination to do a similar this present day, now not as a way to live to tell the tale as an establishment, yet on the way to improve the church's participation in God's venture of peacemaking and compassionate provider. Kinnamon and Linn discover the Disciples' old dedication to covenant and declare that history as a device for addressing present matters similar to funds, minister licensing, homosexuality, the way forward for seminaries, and more.

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