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Editor’s Note: With the recent conclusion of the GAFCON meeting in Jerusalem–with significant leadership led by African Anglican leaders–the following material might be of interest when it comes to the trajectory of the Christian Church when measured demographically through history.
Drawn from “Ockenga Connections” (A Ministry of the Ocknga Institute of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
(volume 11, number [...]

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Editor’s Note: This article is reprinted with permission from The Congregationalist magazine for the benefit of all our readers but especially those whose churches were called “Congregationalist” . It refers to The Cambridge Platform reprinted here previously. It’s next to closing sentence is well taken: “The exercise of the freedoms of the Congregational Way [...]

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Editor’s Note: The United Church of Christ was formed largely as an attempt to unite two Reformed bodies in the US, the Congregationalists and the Evangelical and Reformed Church. Both owe their existence, providentially speaking, to Jesus Christ through His servant John Calvin.
From Reformatus.us
The 500th Anniversary of John Calvin’s Birth takes place in July [...]

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Editor’s Note: One of the Reformed streams that ulimately composed the “United Church of Christ” and which the church pays lip service to is the “Congregational Stream”. The Campbridge Platform shows that the historic Congregationalism that serves as the ancestor of today’s UCC was not the freewheeling antinomianism we have come to know. Instead, the Platform emerges from the need for discipline in the church to adorn the Gospel. In 1708 a subsequent document, The Saybrook Platform, was drafted to strengthen the church’s order even more. Where are today’s concerns with orthodoxy and discipline? How are our present day practices consistent with the heritage we claim for ourselves? Whatever else might be said about the Platform, it did attempt to define the life of the church Biblically and regulate the church’s life according to God’s Word.

The Cambridge Platform

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On April 25th, 2008 the World Council of Churches in which the United Church of Christ and other mainline denominations are members called for the immediate release of results from Zimbabwe’s recent elections as a Chinese freighter attempted to unload a deadly cargo to perpetuate the dictator Mugabe’s oppressive regime.
But the outrage from the World [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues a series of articles on Congregational Missions (Click to see more articles on this theme!)
(c) 2008 Phil Corr, Ph.D.
On a March day in 2000 I gripped a lever, set my legs, and pulled back. I had just “printed” a page of Hawaiian alphabet material. I was visiting the mission [...]

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Editor’s Note: Gerry Charlotte Phelps offers an insightful article on the nature of the demographic problem facing the mainline church. It is the same one, essentially, faced by the West - creeping depopulation. The mainline church reflects the larger culture and is imploding. As we lose both our children and spiritual children, drastic - [...]

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September 23rd 2007 marked the 150th anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival. Linked to the Reformed Church in America historically and theologically as well as through our Formula of Agreement, it is good for us to remember this outpouring of God’s Spirit with them.
As the RCA website notes:
The Fulton Street prayer revival began September 23, [...]

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The Global “Day” of Prayer is Pentecost Sunday, May 11, 2008 this year. The days of prayer preceding it however are Ascension Day through Pentecost - May 1st through the 11th.
Though the modern Global Day of Prayer movement “started” in one sense in the year 2000, in reality the feasts of Pascha (the Christian Passover [...]

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Editor’s Note: This continues a series of articles on Congregational Missions (Click to see more articles on this theme!). Here we see another pioneering effort in Bible Translation by Congregational Missions and other important part of the UCC story.

(c) 2008 Rev. Phil Corr Ph.D.
In my previous article I wrote about Bible translations by Congregational missionaries [...]

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