Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town has three general stores-the Regal, Herb Minnicks and Dyers. It has two gas stations, a post office (Ross Gallimore, postmaster) and Fulk Bros. Electric Store. There are four churches-the Nazarene, Methodist, Baptist, and the white, steepled Christian Church to which all of Freedom's people were invited, last week, to hear a Christmas cantata...
...people had entered the church to hear the Christmas singing. They piled coats and purses on the back pews and looked about with appreciation. A fire was snapping in the stove, a big U.S. flag was hung near the front of the church, and the piano was decorated with holiday greens...
...duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
...already come, already victorious, already founded Kingdom in all its majesty-our Lord Jesus Christ, who has already robbed sin and death, the devil and hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life, or finally the result of this activity in the Christianization of all humanity and, consequently, the setting up of an order of justice...
...have been led to the surely unbiblical habit of speaking as though we had in the church a continuation of the incarnation of the Word of God. If that were so, then manifestly . . . enslaved mankind would have to expect its salvation from us -from our clear grasp of the world's historical situation, from the progress and action and hoped-for future triumphs of the church as the embodiment and representative of Jesus Christ and God Himself. Then one easily got in the way of acting as though the Lord on high were dead ... as though everything took...