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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.”…

Bonhoeffer adds community to the marks of the church. The church, as the Body of Christ, requires a corporateness. This…

Without denying the sacramental quality of many aspects of life, the church has set forth certain sacraments that are based…

The Reformers also identified as a mark of the true church the sacraments that were rightly administered. Augustine defined a…

In almost any gathering of Christians, the proclamation of the word, often in the form of a sermon, has been…