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Emerging Church 1.17

"In churches today, officers and administrators are more likely to exploit the talents of the congregation than to help them find their spiritual gifts. . .
The emerging Church will do much more in terms of helping people to discover and develop such spiritual gifts."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p58

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Emerging Church 1.16

"If Christ dwells in His people, then the matter of administration might well be in the hands of laymen rather than the professional clergy."

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

Emerging Church 1.15

"When the church gathers for worship, the living Christ being present among and within them, participation by the whole people of God is essential."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p54

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Emerging Church 1.14

" . . . the obvious primary resource for the Church is Christ alive in his people. The emerging Church will take this fact as basic to its life and ministry."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p54

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Emerging Church 1.9

"In the Church, we are beginning to learn that the world does not need us as much as we need the world; that is why Christ sends us into it."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p37

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Emerging Church 1.5

"If the Church be true to its Lord, it may never properly say that it has "emerged.""

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p11

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Emerging Church 1.4

"We are not talking about renewal. Renewal is a concept foreign to the emerging Church. Renewal implies that the Church was once what God intended it to be and that our task is to bring it back to that golden age."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p11

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Emerging Church 1.3

"In the Emerging Church, due emphasis will be placed on both theological rootage and contemporary experience, on celebration in worship and involvement in social concerns, on faith and feeling, the personal and the conceptual."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p10-11

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Emerging Church 1.2

"The emerging Church will not choose up sides in such a fashion. Rather, it will affirm what is valuable in each emphasis, bringing together the most helpful of the old and the best of the new, blending the dynamic of a personal Gospel with the compassion of social concern."

Osborne, Larson, The Emerging Church (1970), p10

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Emerging Church 1.1

"Whereas the heady polarities of our day seek to divide us into an either-or camp, the mark of the emerging church will be its emphasis on both-and."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p10.

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