On Schism, B - The Confessing Movement

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On Schism Thomas C. Oden That There Might Be No Schism in the Body of Christ Wesley at age eighty-two preached a crucial homily entitled “On Schism” in which he pleads: “Do not rashly tear asunder the sacred ties which unite you to any Christian society.” His text is from 1 Cor. 12.35: “That there might be no schism in the body of Christ.” Schism opens the door to destructive tempers, both in ourselves and others, which elicit evil surmisings and uncharitable judgments, “bitterness, malice, and settled hatred,” which in turn become “a grievous stumbling-block” to

• covenant responsibility
• modern wesleyan traditions today
• wesleyan doctrinal standards
• wesleyan connection of churches today
• schism
• heresy
• body of christ
• evil
• separation
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