Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, in 1938, George MacLeod began to gather about him a group of young ministers and laymen. Together they evolved their own Rule of faith and worship-a Rule which makes them seem at once as mystical as Franciscans and as hardheaded as Stalinists...
...truly believe in God in Christ, then worship becomes no conventional act of outward respectability, but the very bread of life. . . . If we truly believe, then brotherhood becomes more than a slogan. ... If we really believe, then Christian discipleship, the mission of the church, are not inconsequential asides or the task of peculiar people. They are the absorbing responsibility and opportunity of every member of the church...
...real Protestant feels no such need. He may use some ritual in formal worship, but does not associate with its use a guarantee of a special ministry of God. He does not require the services of a clergyman to purge his sins. The future of the soul of the dead he does not believe to be related to the use of the kind of ritual employed before or at the time of burial. The Protestant clergyman is not called into emergency situations because he is believed to possess any special ritual, or a special right to use such ritual essential...
Recently the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, Dr. W. A. Visser 't Hooft, went into the Russian zone of Germany, and there found "certain hopeful signs" that men and women might be allowed to worship God after their own fashion and according...
...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...