The Popish theory, which assumes that Christ, the Apostles and believers, constituted the Church while our Saviour was on earth, and this organization was designed to be perpetual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.
However, as the Eastern churches have always maintained, through Christ creation is intended eventually to share in the life of God, the life of divine nature.
The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.
True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.
Christianity is in its nature revolutionary.
The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
Jesus made clear that the Kingdom of God is organic and not organizational. It grows like a seed and it works like leaven: secretly, invisibly, surprisingly, and irresistibly.