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How did early Christians understand and practice wealth in relation to worship/service and care of the poor?
Were worship and care of the poor competing against each other? How did early Christians prioritize both theology and practice? What might this dual prioritization teach us about our worship and care of the poor?
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
The last few minutes of corporate worship are critical because they frame the entire purpose of worship and its connection to our lives in the world.
Pastors of three Hispanic churches will share what they learned from experiences implementing congregational projects related to the development of new understandings and practices of worship and preaching.
Explore how Christians in the earliest centuries of Christianity engaged topics related to wealth and poverty in their preaching, public prayers, offerings, celebrations of baptism and the Lord’s Supper, and the shaping of buildings and spaces for Christian worship.
How did early Christians understand their illness and pain in their Greco-Roman context?
