Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An agape feast or lovefeast [b] is a term used for various communal meals shared among Christians. [2] The name comes from the Greek word ἀγάπη (agape), which implies love in the sense of brotherly or familial affection. Agape meals originated in the early Church and were a time of fellowship for believers.
A cafe church is a Christian church centered in cafés. These edifices are associated with alternative worship and the emerging church movements, and seek to find new forms and approaches to existing as a church in the 21st century. These churches are often focused on relationship aspects of Christian fellowship and outreach to their local ...
These congregations generally accept the description "non-institutional", although they do not officially identify as such on signs, letterhead, or other official documents; some consider pejorative the epithet "anti" with which they have been called by some in the usually larger mainstream Churches of Christ since the 1950s and 1960s, and likewise the similar term, "non-cooperative". [5]
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill continues his miniseries on shredded chicken sandwiches, tracing their roots through church events.
The child evangelism movement is an American Christian evangelism movement founded in 1937 by Jesse Irvin Overholtzer, who founded the Christian organization Child Evangelism Fellowship (CEF). It focuses on the 4/14 window, which centers on evangelizing children between the ages of 4 and 14 years. [1]
The ecclesiological model of Church as an institution holds that the Catholic Church alone is the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church", and is the only Church of divine and apostolic origin led by the Pope. This view of the Church is dogmatically defined Catholic doctrine, and is therefore de fide.
The Congregational Church of Phillipston's organ is the oldest made in New England that is still playable, even after a hungry mouse had other ideas. Local view: Phillipston's hungry mouse creates ...
The Jesus Army, also known as the Jesus Fellowship Church and the Bugbrooke Community, [1] was a neocharismatic evangelical Christian movement based in the United Kingdom, part of the British New Church Movement. The name Jesus Army was used specifically for the outreach and street-based evangelism for which they were known. [2]