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The Church Ordinances, Sacramental and Nonsacramental Rites: (The Sacred Traditions, TeachingsAndPractices of the Church with other Confirmatory Topic

The Church Ordinances, Sacramental and Nonsacramental Rites: (The Sacred Traditions, TeachingsAndPractices of the Church with other Confirmatory Topic

Bolaji, Agboola Timothy

Paperback

General Christianity

ISBN13: 9798292924081
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 17 2025
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.41 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
ABOUT THE BOOKThe book, THE CHURCH ORDINANCES, SACRAMENTAL AND NONSACRAMENTAL RITES (The Sacred Traditions, Teachings and Practices of the Church with other Confirmatory Topics) presents a comprehensive introduction to the nature and variety of Christian religious beliefs and practices as handed over by the Early Church and the Church Fathers. Designed for intellectual, religious training of Bible - based students and for those who need the basic concepts of ancient and modern Christian, religious traditions that are in harmony with the Orthodox Christianity without missing the benchmark.It traced back the Church History to the 1st and 2nd Centuries Church, Middle Age and Renaissance (Enlightening) periods which spawned religious, cultural and political upheavals and where the Church's weaknesses were flagrantly exposed, religious revolutions which offered to Christ so many martyrs, returns of worship purity and the restoration of the Eternal Gospel (Primitive Church) and how they all played a large role in shaping the context and contents for today's global Church.Apart from unearthing Judeo- Christian heritages of the ancient times, the church's traditions and foundations of sacred teachings from the primitive, it is a tool to comprehend and exploit the wealth, variety and complex traditions delivered to the Church through the Judeo- Christian Bible, the writings of the early church leaders and the commitment of the Church Fathers without corrupting the Kerygma (apostolic authoritative messages and practices relating to the gospel and salvation), the ultimate agenda of the Antichrist and Satan.Ordinances and Sacraments, their origin, types, evolutionary trends, disparity in their administration in the Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, authentic ways to administer them in churches and public places when applicable are extensively elaborated.The strands of passed - on traditions confirmed that the Apostles, the Early Church and the 1st Century or Post Apostolic Church held to two (2) major indisputable Ordinances which are Baptism and the Lord's Supper. After series of Ecumenical Councils between 150-1800 AD, the Church Fathers and Champions of Reformation clarified Holy Matrimony, Holy Order (Ordination), Public Reading of the Scriptures, Feet Washing and Fasting and Prayers as Sacramental Rites while Confirmation, Penance, Extreme Unction (anointing the dead) and Christian Burial were identified as Non- Sacramental Rites. The book offer solutions to critical issues facing Christianity today via wrong and incompetent administration of the Ordinances and the Sacraments: Syncretism, Pluralism and Secularization. These negative cultural effects endangering Christianity, profaning the Sacred or Holy religious symbolism, myth and doctrine, sacred rituals and the Social and Ethical dimensions of Christian religion are scholarly handled. God constituted the Church as the keeper of the precious deposit of the Truth and gave her the great and responsible tasks of maintaining and defending the truth against all the forces of unbelief and error. Jesus instituted discipline in His Church, when He gave the apostles and, in connection with their word, also the Church in general, the power to bind and to loose, to declare what is forbidden and what is permitted, and to forgive and to retain sins declaratively, Matt 16:19; John 20:23. Therefore, the Priests and everyone handling these sacred rituals or symbolisms MUST BE CAREFUL NEVER to trivialize or profane them to please men and offend God by corrupting or abusing on any ground to confuse or mislead people (putting them to danger of Eternal fire of Hell) BUT mindful of being Christ's servants who will give Him accounts one day.

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