Church Matters: Retrieving the Great Tradition

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• Begin to apply personally practical ways to retrieve the Great Tradition in their own spiritual lives, and in their ministry in the church. The Church of the Living God is called many things in the Sacred Writings – the Family of God, the Body of Christ, and the Temple of the Holy Spirit. This amazing community born of the Blood of Christ and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit has continued to grow and expand since the time of the Apostles, bearing witness to the Lord. Since the day of Pentecost and throughout history, the Church of God has grown, battling persecution, schism, and heresy, but always, in some form or another, persevering through the name and grace of Christ. May the Lord grant you insight and grace to see the Church through history as she really is – the called-out assembly of the living God in Jesus Christ, which continues to guard the faith and embody the Story of God in the world today.

~ Don Davis

Assignments and Grading For our TUMI satellites, all course-relevant materials are located at www.tumi.org/foundations . Each course or workshop has assigned textbooks which are read and discussed throughout the class. We maintain our official Foundations for Ministry Series required textbook list at www.tumi.org/foundationsbooks .

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