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{|<div style="border-spacingbackground:8px;margin:0px -8px"|class="MainPageBG" style="width:55%#f3f9f6;border:1px solid #cef2e0c4d8d1;backgroundborder-colortop:5px solid #FFFFDB286553;verticalborder-alignradius:top7px;colorpadding:#000"|{|width="100%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="5" style="vertical.9em;margin-alignbottom:top.8em;background-color:#FFFFDB"><h2 div style="marginfont-size:079%;backgroundfont-weight:bold;color:#FFE06664776f;fonttext-familytransform:sansuppercase;letter-serifspacing:.04em;">Featured mission story · Colombia</div><div style="font-size:120121%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a3bfb1;text-align:left;color:#00017483b;paddingmargin:0.2em 15em 0.4em;">Who is God?Evangelical churches mobilize after major earthquake</h2div>|-|style="color:#000"|God is the central being of all existence. He is eternal in that he has no beginning Churches and Christian ministries are coordinating relief, shelter and no endpastoral care for affected communities. In the first chapter of the first book of Bible an account is given of God creating the universe and the earth and creating people in his own image[https://worldea. org/ World Evangelical Alliance]</div>

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Although <div style="display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:.75em;align-items:stretch;"><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;">Reformation</div>[[Martin Luther]]'s [[Ninety-five Theses]], traditionally dated to 31 October 1517, became an important catalyst of the [[Protestant Reformation]].</div><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;">The Bible in everyday language</div>Protestant reformers strongly promoted translating and reading the mere existence of God can be deduced [[Bible]] in the languages spoken by natural reason his nature is beyond our understandingordinary people; Luther's German New Testament appeared in 1522.</div><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:. He gives life to all and he is 04em;">A royal priesthood</div>The Protestant teaching commonly called the author [[priesthood of love and forgiveness. all believers]] emphasizes that every Christian has direct access to God through [[John Jesus Christ]] and is called to serve him (1Peter 2:9; Hebrews 4:14–16).</div><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;">Congregational song</div>The Reformation encouraged whole congregations—not only choirs or clergy—to sing. Luther wrote hymns, while [[Charles Wesley]] describes this beautifullylater composed thousands of hymn texts for the [[Methodism|Methodist]] movement.</div><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing: .04em;">Global mission</div>The 1792 publication of [[William Carey]]''{{s missionary appeal helped inspire the modern Protestant missionary movement; Carey later worked as a Bible versetranslator and educator in India.</div><div style="flex:1 1 225px;border:1px solid #d3e0e7;border-radius:7px;padding:.8em;box-sizing:border-box;background:#fbfdfe;"><div style="font-size:78%;font-weight:bold;color:#315d78;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.04em;">Many traditions, one historic center</div>[[Lutheranism|JohnLutherans]], [[Reformed Christianity|1Reformed Christians]], [[Anglicanism|Anglicans]], [[Baptists]], [[Methodism|4Methodists]], [[Pentecostalism|lang=WEB}}''Pentecostals]] and many evangelical churches differ in practice, yet historically affirm the unique saving work of [[Jesus Christ]] and the authority of Scripture.</div></div>

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