What is it about?
Taking the passage from Acts 4:15-20, this article describes how the church is supposed to act and speak in the public arena, based on its spiritual experience, and using integrity as a main tool.
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Why is it important?
This article is important because it brings the issue of authority to the fore front. The main question is who speaks for God? and where is authority based? The church looses its position as an ethical voice when there is no correlation between the message it preaches its behavior, both inside and out in the community.
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As a pastor of a local church that is fully engaged in the larger community, I consider this reflection very important. i think the church in America has lost the place it had at the dialog table by the mid 20th century because it lost its moral authority. Excesses and abuses, talking about some things but not representing those things in its own life in the world, the church became estranged from the table of dialog. In these postmodern times, as we are offered a new opportunity to sit at the table, we must not betray our integrity.
Liliana Da Valle
ABSW
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This page is a summary of: Integrity in the public life of the Church from Acts 4:15–20, Review & Expositor, August 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0034637317724084.
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