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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

100 Marks

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

PROPOSAL FOR A MAJOR RESOURCE FOR PASTORS & CHURCH LEADERS John Mark Ministries exists to encourage pastors, Christian leaders and their spouses. And many are discouraged. Why? Our research suggests 40 different responses to that question. An important one runs as follows: ‘The church is not an encouraging community. It’s spiritually diseased in many ways. […]

Renewal Of The Church

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PART A: THE RENEWAL OF THE LIFE AND MISSION OF THE CHURCH (1) WHAT DO WE MEAN BY ‘CHURCH’? The English word ‘church’ came via German and Latin from the Greek kyriakon (‘that which belongs to the Lord’). Originally it was an adjective, doma or oikia, ‘the Lord’s house’, hence its use of a building […]

Competition

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Towards a Christian Perspective 1. DEFINITIONS . 1-1. Deardon’s ‘three conditions’ 2. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC THEORY 2-1. Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham, Karl Marx 2-2. Capitalism and the Protestant Ethic (Weber-Tawney thesis) 2-3. Marxist socialism. 3. EDUCATIONAL THEORY. 3-1. Various theories of learning and motivation. 3-2. Education and inequality/social class. 4. SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES. 4-1. Social […]

Sects

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‘Faith, hope, love, and the greatest of these is…’ * ‘Baptism!’ – both adult (some ‘restorationist’ groups), and paedobaptism – in post-Augustinian medieval Catholicism * ‘Tongues!’ – some extreme Pentecostal groups * ‘Doctrine!’ – eg. some hyper-Calvinists’ insistence on ‘double predestination’ * ‘Sabbath!’ – some conservative sabbatarians in the SDA’s and other groups… (You can […]

Statistics 1997 [1]

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From: (Peter B. West) Newsgroups: aus.religion,aus.religion.christian,alt.christnet.theology Subject: Re: Anglicans, Catholics, Buddhists? Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 On Sun, 06 Apr 1997 19:58:30 +1100, Rowland Croucher wrote: >Live wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Does anyone know approximately how many >> Anglicans >> Catholics >> Buddhists there are in the world? >> >> Also is the […]

Hymns And Songs

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From: (Jamie Pryor) Subject: Re: CLM 412 Can young and old sing together? Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 > Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 412 >> Can Young and Old sing together? >Dear Rowland One resource that could be very useful to readers trying to merge traditional and contemporary worship is a Vineyard resource called Contemporary Hymns […]

Sexual Abuse And Pastors

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Churches everywhere are needing to formulate guidelines to deal with cases of alleged sexual abuse by pastors. Here’s a preliminary attempt by one Baptist denomination to deal with this issue. Any comments? Guidelines For Dealing With Allegations Against Pastors, Other Paid Employees And Leaders With A Designated Role In Baptist Churches CONFIDENTIALITY At all stages […]

Untitled

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From: Robert Johnson Subject: Re: Worship styles – again… Date: Mon, 5 May 1997) Rowland in article () you wrote: : Then Jesus told him or her, ‘I’m not going to accuse you either. : You may go now, but don’t sin anymore by thinking your style of : worship matters to me. It’s your […]

Sexual Abuse And Pastors (2)

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Former pastor must pay misconduct damages(From Christian Century March 5, 1997 p. 238) A Texas jury has ordered the de-frocked pastor of one of the nation’s largest United Methodist churches to pay $3.7 million in sexual misconduct damages. Jurors on January 17 instructed Barry Bailey, former pastor of the 10,500-member First UMC of Fort Worth, […]

Church Mission – Postmodern World

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AS DELIVERED LECTURE BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY at the University of Notre DameWednesday, July 24th 1996May I begin by thanking Dr. Paul Bradshaw for his welcome. I am delighted to be back again at Notre Dame and to meet old friends and to make new ones.My lecture is entitled “The Mission of the Christian […]

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