The Practice Of The Body Of Christ
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The Vision Practice And Building Up Of The Church As The Body Of Christ
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Author : Witness Lee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 2004-08-01
The Vision Practice And Building Up Of The Church As The Body Of Christ written by Witness Lee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-01 with Religion categories.
In this book, Witness Lee considers the church in six main aspects: in eternity past in God's plan and purpose, in the Old Testament types, in its progress, in its recovery, in its present testimony, and in eternity future. He examines God's eternal purpose concerning the church and how this purpose is realized in practical the building up of the church today through the believers function and their experience of the indwelling Christ.
The Practice Of The Body Of Christ
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Author : Colin D. Miller
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2014-09-18
The Practice Of The Body Of Christ written by Colin D. Miller and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-18 with Religion categories.
The Practice of the Body of Christ begins a conversation between "apocalyptic" interpretations of the Apostle Paul and the contemporary revival in "virtue ethics." It argues that the human actor's place in Pauline theology has long been captive to theological concerns foreign to Paul and that we can discern in Paul a classical account of human action that Alasdair MacIntyre's work helps to recover. Such an account of agency helps ground an apocalyptic reading of Paul by recovering the centrality of the church and its day-to-day Christic practices, specifically, but not exclusively, the Eucharist. To demonstrate this Miller first offers a critique of some contemporary accounts of agency in Paul in light of MacIntyre's work. Three exegetical chapters then establish a "MacIntyrian" rereading of central parts of the letter to the Romans. A concluding chapter offers theological syntheses and prospects for future research.
The Practice Of The Church Life According To The God Ordained Way
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Author : Witness Lee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 1996-03-01
The Practice Of The Church Life According To The God Ordained Way written by Witness Lee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03-01 with Religion categories.
The practice of the God-ordained way in its four steps should be our experience. The first step is to fulfill the New Testament priesthood of the gospel. To preach the gospel is to get sinners saved to be members of the Body of Christ. The second step is to nourish and feed the new believers in the home meetings. The third step is to perfect the saints through the group meetings.... The fourth and last step of the God-ordained way is prophesying in the church meetings for the building up of the church, consummating in the organic building up of the Body of Christ. We should endeavor to build up the local church. Eventually, this building up will consummate in the building up of the Body of Christ.
How The Body Of Christ Talks
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Author : C. Christopher Smith
language : en
Publisher: Brazos Press
Release Date : 2019-04-16
How The Body Of Christ Talks written by C. Christopher Smith and has been published by Brazos Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-16 with Religion categories.
In today's highly charged social and political environment, we often don't know how to talk well with others--especially with people whose backgrounds differ from our own. C. Christopher Smith, coauthor of the critically acclaimed and influential Slow Church, addresses why conversation has become such a challenge in the 21st century and argues that it is perhaps the most-needed spiritual practice of our individualistic age. Smith likens practicing conversation to the working of the human body. Bodies are wondrous symphonies of diverse, intricate parts striving for our health, and our health suffers when these parts fail to converse effectively. Likewise, we must learn to converse effectively with those who differ from us in the body of Christ so we can embody Christ together in the world. In community, we learn what it means to belong to others and to a story that is bigger than ourselves. Smith shows how church communities can be training hubs where we learn to talk with and listen to one another with kindness and compassion. The book explores how churches can initiate and sustain conversation, offers advice for working through seasons of conflict, suggests spiritual practices and dispositions that can foster conversation, and features stories from several congregations that are learning to practice conversation.
The Life And Way For The Practice Of The Church Life
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Author : Witness Lee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 1994-07-01
The Life And Way For The Practice Of The Church Life written by Witness Lee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-07-01 with Religion categories.
In The Life and Way for the Practice of the Church Life Witness Lee speaks not only of our need to know Christ but also of our need to receive a vision of the church, His Body. Enjoying Christ as life will lead us into the proper practice of the church life. In the proper church life we all live and move as members of the Body, guard the genuine ground of oneness, and experience Christ in order to present His riches in the meetings for the building up of His Body.
Reclaiming The Body In Christian Spirituality
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Author : Thomas Ryan
language : en
Publisher: Paulist Press
Release Date : 2004
Reclaiming The Body In Christian Spirituality written by Thomas Ryan and has been published by Paulist Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
This small, spirited book, a collection of reflections contributed primarily by the participants of a retreat and edited by its sponsor, an authority on spirituality, examines the role of the human body in the Christian spiritual life. It asks us to recover a conviction of the goodness of our bodies and how God created us so that we can reclaim a positive, healthy attitude toward our individual bodies, toward the social body, the community around us, including the Church, the "earthbody," the body of the natural world, and become spiritually whole. Fr. Thomas Ryan, as editor and contributor, leads with an introduction, reflections on the positive aspects of the human body, and the modalities of body expression in the Christian and non-Christian-Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Eastern Orthodox-traditions: meditation, prayer, yoga, exercise and rest, sex, fasting and feasting, silence and solitude, and acts of corporal mercy. He is followed by James Wiseman, James Dickerson, Casey Rock, and James Hall with a,short overview of historical Christian attitudes toward the body, the benefits of yoga and Kripalu philosophy for Christians, and the ways of integrating personal spiritual practices with political, social, and environmental justice, through mission groups, Manna Inc., L'Arche, and wilderness groups. Devotees as well as newcomers to health, fitness, especially yoga, nature, and spirituality rooted in the body, are sure to be receptive of its positive message.
Reclaiming The Body The Christian Practice Of Everyday Life
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Author : Joel Shuman
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2006-02-01
Reclaiming The Body The Christian Practice Of Everyday Life written by Joel Shuman and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02-01 with Religion categories.
We live in an age of incredible medical technology, and with it, a great emphasis on health and well-being. We fully entrust the care of our bodies to the medical profession, often taking its solutions and judgments as gospel. But what role, if any, should our Christian faith play in all this? In Reclaiming the Body, a physician and a theologian take a critical look at some of the assumptions we draw from the medical profession and explore what theology has to say about medicine, our bodies, our health, and the Body of Christ. The authors deal with such issues as suffering, caring for the sick, children and reproductive technologies, medicine and the poor, our obsession with physical perfection, and death and dying.
Exercising Our Spirit To Practice The Body Life
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Author : Witness Lee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 2024-02-20
Exercising Our Spirit To Practice The Body Life written by Witness Lee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-20 with Religion categories.
As Christians, we have been saved and regenerated by God to be members of the Body of Christ and to come together to practice the Body life. This is God’s main and central will for us. The Body life is a basic and foundational matter in the Scriptures, and without it, it is impossible for us to be victorious, spiritual, or holy; to grow in life; or to be built up with other believers as a living expression of Christ. Central to our experience of the Body life is the exercise of our human spirit. God created a spirit within us specifically so that we could contact Him. Once we learn how to exercise our spirit to contact Him, everything that God is and has will become our daily experience. Through such a daily experience, God will be able to fulfill His purpose.
Honoring The Body
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Author : Stephanie Paulsell
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Honoring The Body written by Stephanie Paulsell and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with Religion categories.
Learn to celebrate your body by attending to daily spiritual practices In Honoring the Body, Stephanie Paulsell speaks to those who have ever wondered how to celebrate the body's pleasures and protect the body's vulnerabilities in a world that seems confused about both. What we need, she shows, are practices that honor the body. Paulsell invites readers to explore how we might honor the body in daily activities--bathing, clothing, eating, working, exercising, loving, and suffering--seeking wisdom from Scripture, history, and contemporary experience, in story and song and poetry. She argues that the accumulated wisdom of religious traditions provides the resources for a rich practice of honoring the body. This practice will not be just an individual practice, however. It will be a shared, communal practice, one we engage in with others. Honoring the Body is for those who want to honor their body and the bodies of others, who wish for a community that cherishes, attends to, celebrates, and soothes the body.
Body Politics
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Author : John Howard Yoder
language : en
Publisher: MennoMedia, Inc.
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Body Politics written by John Howard Yoder and has been published by MennoMedia, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with Religion categories.
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the original practices has often been covered by centuries of ritual and interpretation. John Howard Yoder, in his inimitably direct and discerning style, uncovers the original meaning of the five practices and shows why the recovery of these practices is so important for the social, economic, and political witness of the church today.