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Emerging Church 1.12

"Who says that the best place for a congregation is at the focal point of a community?
Perhaps is should be hidden in a corner somewhere, at the heartbeat of where its members live and work and socialize."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p51

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Emerging Church 1.11

"Consider the possibility that a church should own no property at all"

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p51

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Emerging Church 1.10

"What is the ideal size of a congregation? 5,000? 500? Well, why not fifty-or a dozen-or even five?  . . . Jesus said "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I . . ." As we face the future and seek to find the shape of the emerging church, let us bear in mind that quantity does not guarantee quality."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p51

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Emerging Church 1.8

"Whatever form preaching will take, that form will not itself be a goal for the emerging Church. A right strategy, yes, but not a goal."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p25

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Emerging Church 1.7

"True, the emerging Church will require great sermons, but great sermons for the 70's will find a more contemporary means of communication than employed by yesterday's pulpit orators."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p25

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Emerging Church 1.6

"Wherever there are a few individuals willing and ready to be Christ's people in their own situation and place, there the emerging Church is coming into its own. "Do you not perceive it?""

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

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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 1.24

"There will be no second-class citizens in the emerging Church. Neither will there be "professional Christians" through whom the rest of us live out our faith vicariously."

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

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Emerging Church 1.23

"The clergyman in the emerging Church will recognize that he is part of the laity ('laos' meaning the people of God) and the layman will acknowledge that he is a minister (that is, "servant") along with the clergyman,"

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p69

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Emerging Church 1.22

"The emerging church will encourage and enable this kind of [open] relationship, aware that the humanness of the people of God is one of the Church's primary resources."

Larson, Osborne, The Emerging Church (1970), p69

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