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A Dialogue on Homosexuality and Church Unity
Darren R. Cushman Wood
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Credo: Struggling, yes. They have to be at least struggling with sin, not celebrating it and tolerating it. Earlier you mentioned outward holiness, which brings up something you and Embrace are downplaying. Wesley always begins with a bare bones definition, but then he moves beyond this to a deeper definition of the church. Wesley always saw the true church or true believers as being within and visible in the institutional structure of church discipline and they are marked by personal expressions of outward holiness.
In referencing Article Nineteen and Cyprian, he made the point that the church is always visible; it is more than a “spiritual” unity. It is seen in the sacraments, heard in good preaching, and felt through the loving actions of all true believers. He had no concept of an “invisible church.” If the church is the church, then it is always a visible church.
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