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What type of church or Christian would a Rob Bell follower be or attend?
According to terminology promolgated by Mark Driscoll and Ed Stetzer, Rob Bell has been identified as part of the Revisionist stream of the Emerging Church movement:
Revisionists are theologically ...
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Is Calvary Chapel a denomination?
It may depend on whom you ask. According to the Calvary Chapel website regarding the History of the Calvary Chapel, the church was founded in 1965 in Costa Mesa.
What began as a small local church ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
Set is an acceptable musical term and doesn't carry as many negative or "performance" overtones as other words may. It can be used of a final production in front of people, a studio session ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
the set
your set
the music set
the musical portion of the service
the service
the praise
the worship
might all work, depending on your congregation.
Comment: If you are playing along with loops/...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
We've found ourselves asking a similar question (for context: I lead the music group in an independent evangelic church in the UK). I get around the issue by shifting from using nouns to using verbs. ...
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What exactly does "Spirit-Filled" mean?
The term "Spirit Filled" is a Pentecostal / Charismatic term or idiom. It means that the church practices the various activities associated with that movement as far as "praying in ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
Thinking that the Bible can give a clue for terminologies, I scoured the NLT and the ESV translations for verses related to worship which has music & musicians (see "The Data" section ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
Is there a good alternative word to ”performance” to describe a music teams actions?
An alternative word for “performance”,when used as to a music team’s actions will very according to the Christian ...
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What does title of "Bishop" mean in some African-American churches?
Well, as you point out, the term Bishop—which is ultimately derived from the Greek episkopos > biscop [Old English] > bishop—literally just means "overseer." While it came to mean a leader over ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
The key in avoiding a "performance" is that a performer is someone who is doing something purely for the benefit of others. A performer might be compensated in some fashion, but that's not ...
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What exactly does "Spirit-Filled" mean?
They were all filled with the Holy Spirit. None was not filled.
And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and ...
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How to Choose a Doctoral Program in Theology?
"How does one choose a Doctoral program in this case?"
One chooses in this case the same as in every other: by seeking God's direction through prayer, and perhaps fasting, and through study ...
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What is Christian scholars' take on the `chicken-or-egg-first' riddle?
Which Came First—The Chicken or the Egg?
What would creationists believe? On Day Five of Creation Week, God created “every winged bird according to its kind” (Genesis 1:21). God created mature birds ...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
The fact that the oft-used word 'performance' is a problem to many who are involved in leading the music side of congregational worship, should flag up a warning to us all. I would add that the word '...
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Is there a good alternative word to “performance” to describe an evangelical worship team's actions?
Giving the Bible the once-over it seems your apprehension at the word performance as used for an artistic production is well founded
perform
performance
performed
performing
performs
There's lots of ...
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What are the general categories of benefits of being part of a denomination?
Pragmatic concerns
A denomination allows churches to cooperate and share the cost of many things which are needed to support the Gospel ministry of those churches, including: insurance, banking, and ...
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