Christian And Missionary Alliance Marriage Encounter Ministry

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reatha H. SEARING
Keyword(s):  
Christian And Missionary Alliance ◽  
Marriage Encounter

A Social-Scientific View of the Marriage Encounter Movement

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-522
Author(s):  
Hal Witteman ◽  
Mary Anne Fitzpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Encounter ◽  
Social Scientific

scholarly journals DIFFERENCE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT: AN ASIAN CANADIAN SENIOR PASTOR’S EVANGELICAL SPATIALITY AT TENTH AVENUE ALLIANCE CHURCH IN VANCOUVER, BC

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Justin K. H Tse
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Senior Pastor ◽  
Complex Spaces ◽  
Christian And Missionary Alliance ◽  
Church Growth Movement ◽  
Growth Movement ◽  
The Church

This paper explores how the evangelical spatiality of an Asian Canadian senior pastor at a historically Anglo-Saxon congregation has transformed it from an ethnically homogeneous, aging church to a heterogeneously-constituted gathering in an evangelical Protestant tradition. This piece challenges the conventional wisdom of the church growth movement and the new religious economics in the sociology of religion, both of which advise religious groups to construct homogeneity and consensus in efforts for numerical growth over against secularizing forces. The paper argues instead that Pastor Ken Shigematsu’s evangelical spatiality from the mid-1990s to the present must be understood as a theological embrace of difference in a church gifted to him by God over which he prayerfully pastors along with his staff. This paper understands Shigematsu’s evangelical spatiality through his own New Testament exegesis, his denominational affiliation with the Christian and Missionary Alliance, his ancient spiritual practices of indiscriminate hospitality, and his mystical reception of Tenth as a welcoming space toward a multiplicity of ethnic, class, and religious backgrounds. This article contributes to Asian Canadian Christian studies by discouraging a future where pan-Asian churches in Canada are homogeneously constructed and by exploring the concrete possibility of non-strategies in which heterogeneous, complex spaces that include Asian Canadians are received by pastors and studied by academics as a divine gift.

Marriage Encounter: The Rediscovery of Love

1973 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
David R. Mace ◽  
Antoinette Bosco
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Encounter

Marriage Encounter: An "Insider's" Consideration of Recent Critiques

1982 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Stedman
Keyword(s):  
Marriage Encounter
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