We have lost the sense of call in our society. At one time the sense of professional was one who…

If I said to you, “Let’s go to church next Sunday,” what would you think that I was saying? I…

As an aide to this form of Biblical interpretation, we are beginning to see a new type of biblical commentary.…

The challenge for seminaries, as they serve the Body of Christ, is to enable pastors and educators to join the…

There is a sense in which our understanding of the church as the Body of Christ revives the question of…

What we are risking in seeking God’s word in the body is acting on the faith that Christ, as a…

I realize that such quick and simple correlation between life situations and biblical stories might also lead to erroneous decisions.…

The members of many mainline churches often draw back from utilizing Scripture in their decision making because they feel inadequate…

It is common for Christians to conclude their prayers with the phrase “through Jesus Christ our Lord.” What we have…

Just as for clergy, so too people who are members of a church need to be made aware of the…

A critical change in attitude occurs when we come to a full recognition of the fact that the church is…

Perhaps this slow dissolution of the power of the church and of the clergy of the church can offer us…

This change in the authority of the church can be very frustrating to those who have devoted their lives to…

It may be that God permitted the institutionalization of the church and even used it to protect the church and…

Elmil Brunner interpreted the history of the church as moving from a fellowship of believers to an institution that preserved…

It is interesting to reflect on Emil Brunner’s analysis of how the church moved from an egalitarian fellowship under the…

Let me suggest an example of how it might look to see the church as the church through which God…

Being the humiliated God-community, the first task of a congregation and its pastor is to listen for the Word of…

This mark of the church is a dynamic one. The writers of the epistles, both those of Paul and the…

Jesus laid down the criteria for discerning the true from the false prophet, “…you will know them by their fruits.”…