Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ecumenical Mediator. He should understand his Petrine Office as a primacy of service within Christianity, as an office to be renewed in the spirit of the Gospel and exercised with responsibility for Christian freedom...
...should promote dialogue and cooperation with the other Christian churches and should exercise his influence as a gathering, not a dispersing force for the unity of the church within plurality. He should give an example of Christian readiness to change, by removing the obstacles to church union on the part of Roman Catholicism and by promoting the cooperation of the Catholic Church with the World Council of Churches...
...Genuine Christian. He need not be a saint or a genius. He can have his faults and his deficiencies, but whatever he be, he should be a Christian in the genuine sense of the term, namely a man who in thought, word and deed is guided by the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the decisive norm of his life...
...that I have destiny," says Preacher Garner Ted Armstrong. But does he have a following? "Disfellowshiped" from the Worldwide Church of God by his father, Herbert Armstrong, 86, Garner Ted, 48, has organized his own Church of God International. At his first sermon in Tyler, Texas, he was all Christian charity and humility to his 200 listeners: "I don't have a bad attitude toward my father any more at all. I realize that he's doing what he feels he has to do -spank his boy. And I want to take every punishment that I need...
...Rice were a dazzling writer, such silliness might be tolerable, but his lyrics rarely rise above the cute. ("The people ... need to adore me/ So Christian Dior me," sings Evita to her couturiers.) The show's structure is clumsy. In addition to the narration and flashbacks within flashbacks, Rice introduces an irrelevant character just to plug his best song (Another Suitcase in Another Hall). That sort of contrivance hasn't been seen in a musical since Carol Haney sang Hernando's Hideaway in The Pajama Game...