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By the early twentieth century, with the ecumenical movement in full swing, community churches were ready to cut formal ties with denominations and to demonstrate Christian unity-in-diversity. Community churches began to understand themselves as post-Protestant and postdenominational.
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The Community Church Movement originates in the early twentieth century as a highly evangelical attempt at realizing practical ecumenism: groups of Christians who leave denominationalism and engage in non-denominational Christianity. The movement attempts to support community churches in many locations. Community churches are difficult to character...
The earliest origins of the community church movement are likely from the nineteenth century and the practical concerns of many small American communities: there were not enough members of individual denominations to each have a congregation, and many times such Protestants would come together to establish a community church of sorts. The community...
Since the community church movement is, generically, a marriage of evangelicalism and ecumenism, community churches strive to be either nondenominational or even postdenominational. Regardless, most of its members come either from the world or the “evangelical” denominations, and doctrine follows accordingly. There is a body, the International Coun...
Since community churches are extremely diverse, it is impossible to make entirely accurate characterizations of any individual congregation. The list below represents a likely range of doctrines consistent with community churches.
We are a purpose-driven church focused around the five New Testament purposes given to the church by Jesus in the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-40) and the Great Commission (Matthew 28: 19-20). We focus on health and keep a simple “menu” of ministries around each purpose for each generation.
Jan 4, 2022 · What are community churches, where do they come from, and what do they have in common? That question has no simple answer, but this article will attempt to give a suitable one. As pioneers spread across the North American continent, they brought along their personal religious beliefs.
The cardinal principle of community-church policy is that an individual speaks only for himself. To move beyond that point is to make him liable to the charge of encroachment on religious liberty. Community churches are regularly described as "of the people, for the people, and by the people."
Feb 1, 2007 · Emerging churches are communities that practice the way of Jesus within postmodern cultures. This definition encompasses nine practices. Emerging churches (1) identify with the life of Jesus,...
The movement developed, first connecting with those projects already developed and then encouraging others to take first steps. These new forms of church ranged from family focused Messy Churches to New Monastic Communities and to Social Justice Projects. For a snapshot visit our YouTube page to see them in action.
