“A Simple Path,” Matthew 18:20 Introduction Gaius Glenn Atkins, then Pastor at First Congregational Church of Detroit, said this while commenting on I Corinthians 13, Sunday November 14, 1909:
Paul summons all great human spiritual endeavors to the judgement seat “… and one by one he dismisses them with this sentence: Thou too shalt pass away. “Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. Partial and incomplete, they have no abiding city. What then is permanent, Paul? And he gravely makes answer: Now abideth faith.”
[1] Transition Ours is a grand heritage as followers of Christ in close connection to the historic Congregational Way. But why? Because The Congregational Way, when properly understood and practiced, is a way consistent with those early followers of The Way of Jesus! It is a way of pilgrimage; life together.
W.B. Selbie, in his 1927 account of Congregationalism gives a more robust trea…
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