In the fall of 1979, he and his wife, Debbie, were the first church planters sent out by John Wimber's Calvary Chapel of Yorba Linda-more than two years before that group joined the nascent Vineyard movement. By 1994, Hunter was national coordinator of the Association of Vineyard Churches. In 2000, he became a church planting coach for Allelon, a group devoted to cultivating (here comes a buzzword) the missional church.
Read moreAnd more recently, in the mid-1990s, Mark Thompson, of Moore Theological College, has addressed the issue in a series of articles in The Briefing, and in a book titled, Saving the Heart, subtitle, 'What is an evangelical?'
The sheer fact that the question has been asked so often, and that answers by such erudite contributors have apparently failed to settle the issue, forces us to acknowledge that evangelicalism is not a set of commonly-held, narrowly-defined, doctrines.
Read moreThe most celebrated Bibles in the collection are the Gutenberg Bible and the Giant Bible of Mainz -- proudly featured in the library's Great Hall.
The Giant Bible of Mainz is one of the last great handwritten Bibles of Europe and it represents hundreds of years of work disseminating the word of God, according to the library's Web site.
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Read more"With both TheCRY and TheCall in the U.S., so much of what we target in prayer is the exact antithesis of that whole late-60s movement of turning away from God, rebellion to authority, sexual perversion, seeking spiritual encounter apart form God," said TheCRY founder Faytene Kryskow, who realized the prayer event was being held on the Woodstock anniversary two months ago.
Read more"One college we are working with is struggling to help students realize that just because they don't feel called to international missions doesn't mean they get a pass on the Great Commission," said Todd Eckhardt, director for Partnership Development. "They want to broaden the emphasis of their missions week to include all areas of missions, not just international."
Read moreAt the time of the Reformation Cranmer and the other Reformers had reformed the CofEs Formularies and Prayer Book with the help of Continental Reformers such as Martin Bucer.
The Formularies had been modelled on continental Protestant revisions, for example the Lutheran Confession of Augsburg.
Read moreThings got a little crowed in the Palisades Room because 150 faithful Nashotah alumni and associates were expected to show up. Many more did. Priests and bishops clustered together with drinks in hand, munching on the California version of Tex-Mex cuisine.
Read moreGiven the Anglican Mission's focus on the 130 million unchurched, how can we keep our message accessible to culture while preserving the Truth?
Read more"The under-35 generation thinks church is a judgmental, hypocritical, insular place," says Jamie Dunham, chief planning officer for Bohan Advertising & Marketing, the firm that designed the United Methodist campaign. "So our question is: What if church can change the world with a journey?"
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