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Formed to Discern: Toward a Practical Theology of Communal Discernment for the Church

Hetrick, Kyle

Congregational discernment is frequently invoked whenever Christians gather to make decisions, yet the term often names practices that are theologically different: strategic planning opened with prayer, majority preference, clerical control, unmanaged intuition, therapeutic harmony, or religious endorsement of decisions already made. This article…