File:Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods (1920) (14762688484).jpg

Identifier: communityprogram01guil (find matches)
Title: Community programs for cooperating churches; a manual of principles and methods
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Guild, Roy Bergen, 1872- ed
Subjects:
Publisher: New York, Association press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
that they may have directrepresentation in the interchurch council. 3. Local churches, however, have ecclesiastical asso-ciations to which they are primarily and authoritativelyrelated. These denominational groupings such as dis-trict, presbytery, convention, synod, and classis, are theorganizations to which the churches in the very natureof the case owe their first allegiance. In view of thefact that the denominations are not yet fully coordinatedin their national policies, no very great attempt has beenmade to coordinate these different ecclesiastical units ex-cept in a very superficial way. The effect of such lackof coordination is often felt in the community, wherethe churches of several denominations desire to formu-late some plan of common action, when it is discoveredthat one or more of the local churches have agreed toa plan in their ecclesiastical group which does not har-monize with what the same churches would desire todo in cooperation with other churches in the community.
Text Appearing After Image:
PRINCIPLES AND METHODS IS The possibility of this conflict may be seen from theaccompanying map, which shows the boundaries ofthe ecclesiastical organizations to which the localchurches of a city of 25,000 people are voluntarily orauthoritatively related. The real difficulty may be illus-trated in the planning of a community-wide evangelisticcampaign, which to be effective in the community musthave the whole-hearted and united support of all theagencies. Upon investigation it may be found, for ex-ample, that a Presbyterian minister has recently been tohis presbytery, which is made up of the Presbyterianchurches of a widely scattered area having no relationto the normal social and business life of the people, andin the presbytery has agreed to an evangelistic programwhich may be very different from that desired by thechurches in the community. It is at this point that inter-church work has found its greatest obstacles. Experi-ence of successful federations of churches has shownthat som

Note About Images