Zusammenfassung der Ressource
living the Christian life
- worship
- liturgical worship is the
use of prayer books e.g
books of common prayer
- having more freedom
in worship and more
flexibility
- comfort reciting
words with history,
knowing how it works
- non liturgical worship - bible
reading, individual prayer,
moved by hold spirit
- "lighten our darkness, we beseech thee,
O lord" - book of common prayer
- more common is charismatic churches
- local church
- tolerance of diiferent ideas
- mutaul understanding
- less discrimination
- "whoever welcomes one
of these little children in
my name welcomes me"
- charity, evangelism, community
services, helping elderly, prayer
servicesfor sick, supporting campaigns
- ecumenism is being
between christian sects
- friendship between christians
- pilgrimage
- sites linked to where
Jesus/Apostles or where visions
of Virgin Mary happened
- "Pilgrimages evoke our earthly journey towards heaven"
- Walshingham - shrine of our Lady
Walshingham, house built on sight where a
woman had a vision of Gabriel visiting Mary
- Taize - monastic order, a community founded
in 1940, pilgrims go to see their way of life
- Iona - the focal point for the spread of
Christianity in Scotland, the Iona community
- Jerusalem - Jesus's ministry took place and
where he went on pilgrimage himself age 12
- considered less important for
protestants than Catholics
- future church
- missionary work is spreading jesus word,
building churches, seeking conversion
- church attendance declining in the UK
- "go into the word and preach the gospel to all creation"
- evangelism - teaching people about Jesus, warning against sin
- 33000 new Christians
in africa every day
- can cause conflicts, take advantage in
natural disasters, forcing western values
- pentacostalism is the fastest growing denomination
- Uk sends 15000 missionaries
in a year and receive 10000