Creeping Lutheranism?
…institutional church can guard the purity of the church through discipline, excommunication, and guarding baptism, but in the end it cannot itself shut the grace of Jesus off from me….
…institutional church can guard the purity of the church through discipline, excommunication, and guarding baptism, but in the end it cannot itself shut the grace of Jesus off from me….
…exercised in a place, or they have no meaning. It is quite true that, as the nature of the church has changed, it is more desirable for a church to…
…dangerous message for the Church. The attitudes and unexamined assumptions of the “heart” may not be rational, but they come from the “head.” Indeed, our “heart,” unlike our physical heart,…
…they are undesirable, and so are the institutions – including the church – that might seek to serve them. I think you can guess where this leads! We are coming…
…and community centers to be thrown in. This, of course, puts a premium on people who can do like ACORN and organize. Smaller organizations, like rescue missions and other church…