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Jesus and Fellowship
Stating that " Paramahansa Yogananda was sent to the West by Jesus Christ himself " with the said intent to " restore the original Christian teachings among his followers ", in Revelations of Christ Swami Kriyananda, Yogananda's disciple and Ex-minister of the Self-Realization Fellowship, provides a distilled commentary on the life and teachings of Christ, all of which is meant to serve as an anticipatory primer to Yogananda's more philosophically nuanced treatment in The Second Coming of Christ.
Shortly after receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1515, he was elected to a Fellowship of Jesus College.
There are churches for Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, Mennonite Church, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Grace Fellowship Community Church, Canyon Family Church, Foursquare Gospel Church, Chinle Potters House, and Catholic Church ( Our Lady of Fatima ), a meetinghouse for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a Kingdom Hall for Jehovah's Witnesses.
* Lord Jesus Our Redeemer Christian Fellowship Sucat Parañaque
Prison Fellowship's vision is that Jesus Christ's transforming grace and truth be manifested in the lives of prisoners and their families, as the local church and Prison Fellowship partner in Christ's work to restore prisoners to the community and Church as contributing members, bearing witness that no life is beyond the reach of God's power.
According to their Statement of Faith, the Elim Fellowship believes that the Bible is the inspired word of God ; that God exists eternally as three persons ; that man is lost and in need of a Savior ; that salvation is through the atoning death of Jesus Christ and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit ; that divine healing is provided through the atonement ; and that the personal bodily return of Jesus Christ is imminent.
" The mission of Elim Fellowship is to glorify God and His Son Jesus Christ and to obey Christ's mandate to preach the Gospel and make disciples of all nations.
Some of these include: Acting on AIDS, At the Foot of the Cross, Beacon Newspaper, Campus Crusade for Christ, Chesbronian Yearbook, Dance Ministry, Drama Ministry, Gospel Choir, Habitat for Humanity, In Jesus ' Name ( Street Ministry ), And He Made Me ( Multicultural Student Union-leadership team ) Intramural Athletics, mission trips, Student Association, SIFE, Fellowship of Christian Athletes ( FCA ), Key of She ( all-female a cappella group ) and Worship Teams.
During the martial law under then President Ferdinand Marcos, despite the threats for communism, several independent church organizations were planted from the 1970's to the mid-1980's like the Jesus Is Lord Church, Greenhills Christian Fellowship founded in 1978, Bread of Life Ministries International founded in 1982, and both Christ's Commission Fellowship and Victory Christian Fellowship established in 1984.
* www. rccgfocc. org and Pentecostal Church – Jesus Is Lord Christian Fellowship use Place Of Worship and Church Service to denote two different types of buildings.
In contrast, Jeff Sharlet, who was interviewed on NBC News and wrote a book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, and an article in Harper's about his experience serving as an intern in the Fellowship, has stated that the organization fetishizes power by comparing Jesus to " Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden " as examples of leaders who change the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their " brothers ".
The Fellowship archives reveal that, " in effect, the group adopted an even lower profile, serving as a channel of communication and a catalyst " of global outreach in the spirit of Jesus.
The Fellowship is a loosely banded group of people who have an affinity for Jesus.
Jeff Sharlet and Andrea Mitchell have described Fellowship leader Doug Coe as preaching a leadership model and a personal commitment to Jesus Christ comparable to the blind devotion that Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Pol Pot demanded from their followers.
The Jesus Army is the identity that the Jesus Fellowship Church uses in its outreach and street-based work.
The Jesus Fellowship was founded in 1969, when Noel Stanton ( 1926 – 2009 ), at that time the lay pastor of the Bugbrooke village Baptist chapel near Northampton, East Midlands, was inspired by a charismatic experience which led him to successfully expand the congregation, largely by appealing to a younger generation of worshippers As the new church grew and became more charismatic in nature, many of the original congregation left to continue worshipping in the more traditional churches.
The Jesus Fellowship has grown considerably since its inception in 1969.
The Jesus Fellowship operates much like the house church movements, or the more radical elements of the larger, more conventional churches.
The beliefs of the Jesus Fellowship are in line with historic Christian orthodoxy.
Nevertheless, there are various aspects of the Jesus Fellowship ’ s way of practising Christianity that are distinctive when compared with more conventional churches.
The Jesus Army was launched in 1987 as the campaigning identity of the Jesus Fellowship.

Jesus and community
Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.
The antiquity of the creed has been located by most biblical scholars to no more than five years after Jesus ' death, probably originating from the Jerusalem apostolic community.
Immersion baptism | Baptism by immersionFor most Disciples, communion is understood as the symbolic presence of Jesus within the gathered community.
The Jewish Christians of Antioch responded differently: obedience to law will be done though following Jesus ; Jesus was the Messiah ; and Jew and gentile were to be brought into the one community.
Matthew's own Christian community may have called themselves Nazoreans, a sect mentioned by Jerome and others: like Matthew, they maintained a " high Christology " ( i. e., they stressed Jesus ' divine nature over his human-ness ), and did not demand that Gentile Christians observe all the Law.
They argue that the disciple who formed this community was both an historical person and a companion of Jesus Christ.
The author likely considered himself Jewish, did not deny that Jesus and his disciples were all Jewish, and was probably speaking to a largely Jewish community.
The Apostolic Church was the community led by the apostles, and to some degree, Jesus ' relatives.
To confirm means to “ make more sure ” and the ordinance of confirmation also stands as a witness of the individual becoming a member of the LDS church and community and not just an acceptance of Jesus.
Some scholars suppose that these contain early Christian creeds and creedal hymns, which were included in several of the New Testament texts and that some of these creeds date to within a few years of Jesus ' death and were developed within the Christian community in Jerusalem.
We believe that the local church is a community of believers organized in covenant relationship for worship, fellowship and service, practicing and proclaiming common convictions, while growing in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
The Last Supper was likely a retelling of the events of the last meal of Jesus among the early Christian community, and became a ritual which recounted that meal.
The community believed that Jesus had already returned in A. D. 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just Heaven ( a belief called Perfectionism ).
Omaha hosts the only Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in Nebraska, along with a significant Jewish community.
The Jesus Seminar considers the New Testament accounts of Jesus ' ascension as inventions of the Christian community in the Apostolic Age.
Mack develops the thesis that this was the earliest writing about Jesus, developed over decades by a community which he describes with unwavering confidence.
Mack suggests that at this time Jesus was seen simply as a teacher by the community which produced the text, with many similarities to a sage in the Cynic tradition.
The most " underground " expression of Christian rock is the annual Cornerstone Festival, sponsored by the Jesus People USA, a community which formed during the Jesus Movement of the 1970s.
There is a significant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints community in Corona with many churches throughout town, due to a fairly large Mormon population in the Riverside-San Bernardino area.
The Hispanic Ministry Committee ( made up of both Hispanics and Anglos ) exists to further the mission of Jesus Christ as present within a multi-faceted faith community.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the dominant religious denomination in Roosevelt, with three stakes centered in town ; but the community also includes Roman Catholic, Christian Assembly of God, Baptist, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other smaller denomination congregations.
Philip introduces members of this community to Jesus.

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