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Emerging Church 1.31

"We believe that a congregation, in that it is an organism rather than an organization, has a uniqueness and a personality and a soul all of its own. The emerging Church realizes that every local parish, in order to be faithful to its Lord, may become unlike every other parish."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p56

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Emerging Church 1.30

"The emerging Church may follow General Booth of the Salvation Army more closely than Charles Wesley in the matter of hymnology, putting new words to singable popular tunes."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p86

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Emerging Church 1.29

"If we insist on going back to something in the past, perhaps we should go back to the beginning, rather than getting off conveniently at some 18th-century plateau (or 16th or even 12th)."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p83

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Emerging Church 1.28

"Suffice it to say that doing a thing because it has always been done is not an adequate reason for doing it in the church. The function of preaching - its forms, responses, and measurements - needs to be evaluated afresh."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p80

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Emerging Church 1.27

"But the emerging church will be radical in its emphasis and dependence on both - the resource of Christ's continuing divinity and the resource of our persistent humanity. With these as its major resources, "the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p73

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Emerging Church 1.26

"All of us use touch in a hundred ways to convey love and compassion . . . And in the emerging Church, we will acknowledge our brothers and sisters with an updated form of Paul's "kiss of peace, . . ."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p71

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Emerging Church 1.25

". . . the emerging Church will rediscover the healing power of confession.
. . . In the emerging church, the honesty of real confession will be provided for in layman to layman encounters of various kinds . . ."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p70, 71

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Emerging Church 1.39

"Whenever the emerging Church has become vital enough to make a strong impact, there have been dreamers who saw 'the big picture' in a new way."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p143

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Emerging Church 1.37

"The mark of a Christian Church in its most authentic forms is not that it always be right, but that it be capable of correction, rediscovery, reevaluation and change. A church that rigidly maintains it has at one time received God's guidance and is now remaining faithful to that guidance - we are not here referring to Biblical revelation - either takes itself too seriously or else does not understand the nature of God."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p56

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Emerging Church 1.36

"A church that is able to recognize general trends and circumstances and turn them into specific opportunities is one which will be a vital part of the emerging Church."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p117

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