Word: worship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disciple worry is membership. The nation's fastest-growing churches are ones that emphasize their doctrinal individuality-including the conservative Churches of Christ (TIME, Feb. 15), which broke with the Disciples around 1900 over a number of ecclesiastical questions, such as whether the Bible authorized instrumental music in worship. But the ecumenical-minded Disciples have lost 50,000 members in the last decade, and outgoing President Dr. Robert W. Burns of Atlanta warned that the flames of a faith built on evangelism seemed to be dying into embers. "Our evangelism has lagged because many of us lack a deep...
...sold it first to some of the foreign correspondents in Saigon. They have represented themselves as undergoing religious persecution. By now, they have been depicted in the press around the world as suffering from 'a host of restrictions on their religious freedom, refusal to grant them freedom of worship, discrimination practices...
...reporting churchmen "waking up to race" was stimulating. You will be interested to know that Methodist Bishop Richard C. Raines of the Indiana area has sent letters to the 1,000 Methodist ministers and lay leaders in the state offering full support for implementation of the policy of open worship and open membership. During the next few months, 350,000 Methodists are being asked to act on these matters in their local congregations...
...think that an individual or individuals could do this to a church gathering is shocking to say the least; however, it is not any more shocking than the fact that a group could go to a church and mix pep talks for integration with a form of worship...
...best of motives, and in a heroic vein. But if English law will not declare that heroes have no more right to kill in this fashion than other folk, I shall take an early opportunity of migrating to Texas or some other quiet place where there is less hero worship and more respect for justice...