Download or read book The Integrity of the Body of Christ written by Arden Mahlberg and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For religious communities to have integrity and credibility they must flourish as places of love and respect. Every aspect of church life is defined and protected by essential boundaries: boundaries around space, time, thought, speech, will, emotion, and behavior--both for clergy and church members. Lack of awareness and attention to boundary keeping diminishes the integrity of the church and harms its mission, whereas insight and vigilance about best practices lend freedom and energy to the calling of the church to care for others and to reach out to the world. In a flourishing Christian community, a wide array of boundaries must be recognized, celebrated, and navigated--from the boundaries that define and protect us as individual persons to role boundaries and the boundaries that define essential communal functions, such as worship. This book is no conventional account of boundaries. It takes a comprehensive approach to the challenge of understanding and creating healthy boundaries. It applies the lessons from the emerging field of behavioral ethics to the rich and rewarding complexity of boundaries in church life, helping us to be more loving and responsible in how we think, speak, and act, so that the church can be true to its identity and mission.
Download or read book The Integrity of the Body of Christ written by Arden Mahlberg and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For religious communities to have integrity and credibility they must flourish as places of love and respect. Every aspect of church life is defined and protected by essential boundaries: boundaries around space, time, thought, speech, will, emotion, and behavior--both for clergy and church members. Lack of awareness and attention to boundary keeping diminishes the integrity of the church and harms its mission, whereas insight and vigilance about best practices lend freedom and energy to the calling of the church to care for others and to reach out to the world. In a flourishing Christian community, a wide array of boundaries must be recognized, celebrated, and navigated--from the boundaries that define and protect us as individual persons to role boundaries and the boundaries that define essential communal functions, such as worship. This book is no conventional account of boundaries. It takes a comprehensive approach to the challenge of understanding and creating healthy boundaries. It applies the lessons from the emerging field of behavioral ethics to the rich and rewarding complexity of boundaries in church life, helping us to be more loving and responsible in how we think, speak, and act, so that the church can be true to its identity and mission.
Download or read book The Integrity of the Salt written by Sarah Joy Powell and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Integrity of the Salt brings clarity to mankind as it defines who we are in Christ. It shines light on our Christian's integrity and character which is Christ's reflection through us. It reminds us that Christ's integrity and character is the main trait of the church and thus, gives us hope, faith and confidence to go on. The Integrity of the Salt takes us through an experience of radical change in Christ. It explains the power of an intimate relationship with Him while we live sacrificial for Him or as He would while He was on earth. The Integrity of the Salt exposes our daily lifestyles and instructs us of the revealed Christ who lives in us in a dying world.
Download or read book Theology of the Body and Sexual Integrity written by Dominic F Dixon and published by Dominic F Dixon. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Walking with Frodo written by Sarah Arthur and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings epic tale has long captivated readers with its parallels to biblical truth. And now, Walking with Frodo looks at the biblical themes found in the classic Lord of the Rings trilogy. The 18 devotions pair vices and virtues (deception vs. honesty, light vs. darkness, good vs. evil) displayed by characters in The Lord of the Rings and bring to light what the Bible has to say. A must-have for longtime and new series fans.
Download or read book Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ written by Susannah Cornwall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream Christian theology has valued the integrity of the body and the goodness of God reflected in creation. However, it has also asserted the complementarity of "normal" male and female physiology. Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ offers the first systematic theology of the intersexed body. The book analyzes the theological implications of physical intersex conditions and their medical treatment. The medical assumption of what constitutes male and female bodies is shown to raise essential questions about the meaning of incarnation and bodiliness. The book argues for a theology that speaks to stigmatized and marginal bodies, examining the impact of such a theology on sex, marriage, sexuality, perfection, healing, and the resurrected body.
Download or read book Integrity written by Dennis Cook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people, families and ministries end up on the trash heap because of a lack of integrity. This book helps us see God's view on this important aspect of our lives and the effects it has on our relationship with Him and our success in completing our work of the Lord Jesus Christ. As the Body of Christ, we must to the best of our abilities walk as an integer with our Heavenly Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The integrity of our heart will lead us to make the correct decisions to further ourselves, our families and our ministries. A simple, practical book on how to apply the biblical principles to our daily lives and walk in the blessing that are promised to them that walk in integrity.
Download or read book Sexuality Mentality written by Heather Ruesch and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teens hear a lot of conflicting viewpoints about sex. The world tells them to follow their heart and do what feels right-that sex isn't a big deal, that pornography isn't harmful, that modesty is old-fashioned. But that's not how God designed sex. Sex is a precious and sacred gift to be enjoyed tin the right context, according to God's design. We need to have honest conversations with youth about pornography, self-pleasure, homosexuality, modesty, the value of human life, and, yes, sex. God gives us grace upon grace to teach our children about purity according to His Word. He equips parents, pastors, teachers, and youth workers to connect to the deeper wisdom the Bible provides and begin the conversation about sexual integrity. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Mystical Body of Christ and the Reorganization of Society written by Denis Fahey and published by . This book was released on 1943-01-01 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prophetic Integrity written by R.T. Kendall and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when prophets are wrong? In 2020, many Christians claiming to be prophets said God told them that Donald Trump would be re-elected as president. Over thirty years before that, one the famous Kansas City Prophets, Paul Cain, prophesied that there would be a revival in London in 1990, which never came to pass. These examples make us wonder: What happens when prophets get it wrong? Are there consequences for misleading God's people? What would a genuine prophet look like today? And how can you tell a false prophet from a genuine one? In recent years, misjudgments among Charismatic Christians claiming to speak for God as well as moral failures within Evangelicalism have resulted in a crisis of belief. In Prophetic Integrity, bestselling author and speaker, R.T. Kendall gives a warning to those speaking in God's name and offers a way forward in trusting God despite the failures of the church. To unpack this difficult topic, Kendall, a self-described "Reformed charismatic," relates accounts of visions and supernatural experiences and shares stories and thoughts about Christian leaders that he knew personally, such as Paul Cain and Ravi Zacharias. He gives examples of good and bad prophecies and teaches a biblical and theologically-sound understanding of prophetic gifting and use. Prophetic Integrity is a book for those who believe that God still speaks today but have serious questions about those within the church that identify as prophets. It's a call for honesty, vulnerability, and repentance; and it speaks to Christians of many different traditions, including Charismatic and Evangelical. Discerning Christians of many different traditions can and must take both God's word and the gift of prophecy seriously and recognize how humans can abuse such gifts or use them to advance God's Kingdom.
Download or read book Restoring Relational Integrity written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Integrity of the Church written by E. Glenn Hinson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who takes history seriously must be fascinated by the church-- the variegated structures of the Christian movement. Down the centuries it has tamed barbarians, commanded kings, compromised with culture, pioneered in helping the needy, conserved the past, and quickened the conscience of humankind. But understanding the church begins with the New Testament: the gospel of Christ, the transforming friendship with his disciples, and the insights of Paul in counseling congregations of the first century. All of this is woven through the twelve chapters of this book in a careful, readable style. Its concern, however, is for the church of today in the context of rapid social change. How are the New Testament images of the church reflected in its ministry in our time? How does the church witness in urban society and how can it help to meet human needs? These are the kinds of questions it faces with hope always for the future. - book blurb.
Download or read book Longing to Belong written by Beth M. Crissman and published by Plowpoint Press. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transgression of the Integrity of God written by Craig Keen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this dark, when we all talk at once, some of us must learn to whistle." In this comprehensive collection of his work, Craig Keen's voice emerges as that of a theologian who has indeed learned to whistle. In a day when much of what passes for academic "theology" is careful to maintain a safe distance from any determinate act of faith or work of praise, Keen evinces a single-minded determination to think and to speak, to write and to live doxologically. And whether writing or lecturing, teaching or conversing, Keen understands theology to be nothing less than an invitation to work out one's faith with fear and trembling. Throughout this volume Keen argues that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus disrupt all metaphysical attempts to determine the reality of "God," and suggests instead that theology is to be done liturgically and eucharistically--as the work of a people whose labor is carried out with open hands, free from all attempts to grasp and control. Keen discusses doctrinal issues--the Trinity, incarnation, creation--as well as a number of critical theological concerns--church and culture, justice, holiness, Christian education--in this light. The result is a profound set of reflections on the ways in which the word of the cross simultaneously transgresses our constructions of "God" and gives us to live transgressively in love.
Download or read book How to Lead When You Don t Know Where You re Going written by Susan Beaumont and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you lead an organization stuck between an ending and a new beginning—when the old way of doing things no longer works but a way forward is not yet clear? Beaumont calls such in-between times liminal seasons—threshold times when the continuity of tradition disintegrates and uncertainty about the future fuels doubt and chaos. In a liminal season it simply is not helpful to pretend we understand what needs to happen next. But leaders can still lead. How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going is a practical book of hope for tired and weary leaders who risk defining this era of ministry in terms of failure or loss. It helps leaders stand firm in a disoriented state, learning from their mistakes and leading despite the confusion. Packed with rich stories and real-world examples, Beaumont guides the reader through practices that connect the soul of the leader with the soul of the institution.
Download or read book Broken Bodies written by Karen O'Donnell and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Body of Christ is a traumatised body because it is constituted of traumatised bodies. This monograph explores the nature of that trauma and examines the implications of identifying the trauma of this body. Constructing new ways of thinking about the narratives at the heart of the Christian faith, 'Broken Bodies' offers a fresh perspective on Christian theology, in particular the Eucharist, and presents a call to love the body in all its guises. It offers new pathways for considering what it means to ‘be Christian’ and explores the impact that the experience of trauma has on Christian doctrine.
Download or read book Living Waters written by Andrew Comiskey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
