Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missionary Church. "The church has also a redemptive role to fulfill . . . Evangelism, the confrontation of men with Jesus Christ so that they may accept Him as their Saviour and follow Him as their Lord in the fellowship of the church, is the church's primary task. It is not sufficient that the Gospel be preached in established places of worship. It is necessary that it be taken to the people. Let our complacency be shaken by the fact that today, even while church membership stands at an alltime peak in the history of our country, there are still...
...level, should be extended to the grass roots. He told the assembly: "We've been concerned here with the overhead of cooperation. We've been on dress parade . . . I am concerned in bringing the services of the council into closer relationship with the local community . . . This overhead fellowship is delightful and enriching, but there should be elimination of the sense of futility that grows out of the overlapping and duplication of denominational programs on the local parish level...
...period during the war, as well as a sincere effort to cement good will between the two largest English-speaking nations. That feeling is best typified in one sentence of a message from Winston Churchill, opposite the frontispiece: "To those who did not return the best memorial is the fellowship of our two countries, which by their valour they created and by their sacrifice they have preserved...
...churches of their own, but felt they were too few to build two churches and support two pastors. Together, in 1947, they organized the Indian Hill Presbyterian Church and the Indian Hill Episcopal Church (joint membership: 404), with an Episcopalian as minister. Fortnight ago, as the seal of their fellowship, Indian Hill's congregation dedicated a new $300,000 church building-the first U.S. church ever to be built by a combined Episcopal and Presbyterian congregation as a common effort...
...Episcopal services on different Sundays; St. Barnabas' uses a simplified liturgy at all its services. New members are received into both denominations, i.e., the bishop lays his hands on the confirmand in the Episcopal rite of confirmation, and the pastor then extends "the right hand of Christian fellowship," Presbyterian fashion. Both churches give part of their revenues to Episcopal and Presbyterian church agencies...