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It emphasizes cooperation over competition by pooling resources, tailoring social and economic activities, and subordinating doctrinal tests to Christian discipleship. 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significance and relate them to the Christian enterprise at home and abroad.”  \nThe Christian Rural Fellowship Bulletin  \nOctober 1936  \nNumber 15  \n# The Larger Parish and Rural Reconstruction Unit\n\nBy Malcolm Dana,D.D.*  \nFrequent requests have been made for an exact and authoritativedefinition of the Larger Parish,but it must be frankly admitted that nosuch definition has been formulated,and for a very good reason.TheLarger Parish is a theory and philosophy of rural religious work,ratherthan a standardized plan or procedure everywhere the same.Its real geniusand purpose are:first,a ministry over areas as well as churches,andsecond,a major emphasis upon populations instead of 'constituencies.'Itembodies a ministry to all of the people who live upon a definite area ofinhabited land.  \nThe practice of the Larger Parish is not altogether new.Ag-gressive ministers have used the plan more or less for many years withoutbothering to give it a name.It possesses many of the elements of the oldcircuit rider system,brought up to date and given a new emphasis and largerscope.The minister who uses the Larger Parish plan feels not only ob-ligated to render faithful service to his own particular church and people,but also swayed by an absorbing passion to minister over large areas.Hehas the vision of the foreign missionary who does not feel himself calledto a church or parish,but who proposes to occupy great stretches of country-side in the name of the Most High.The limits of parish and community willalways transcend the narrow confines of village or town to reach out inevery direction and include all of the homes and peoples whose interestscenter there.The Larger Parish recognizes that ithe village church willfail that does not buttress itself up with a strong country work.'Feedersare therďore established by means of preaching stations,Sunday schools,andsocial and other activities.But churches themselves are not the chief endof effort.The measure of 'success!is an ability on the part of a ministerto lead his people out with himself into a program of genuine service to thecountryside.The leader of a Larger Parish has no time to speculate aboutthe lkilling range!of centers,for heis too busy exalting a'serving range'which will minister to overlooked people in the nearby country.  \n## A Religious-Cooperative\n\nThe Larger Parish is convinced that churches can no longer preachand practice competition when cooperation exists in almost every otheractivity of rural life.It therefore seeks to combine a number of rural  \n*Dr。Dana is Director of the Town and Country Department of the CongregationalChurch Extension Boards and Associate Professor of the Rural Church at YaleDivinity School and Hartford Theological Seminary.  \nchurches ofa 'sociological area!into a sort of religious cooperativewhich utilizes social,economic and religious activities.Town andcountry are made conscious of their inter-dependence.Neighborhoods,churches and peoples are indur ed to pool their resources so that to-gether they can obtain a program,equipment and ministry which no one ofthem has ever been able to get alone.People of different kinds,creedsand communions organize themselves into an effort which subordinates doc-trinal tests to those of Christian discipleship.The Larger Parish is areal practice of democracy in religion.For ministers,churches andpeoples acting together formulate and administer plans and programs bymeans of a Larger Parish Council made up of delegates officially electedby the cooperating units.Effort is made to underwrite a multiple ministryof trained specialists with departmental responsibilities and also to dis-cover,mobilize,train and use volunteer local leadership.  \nIt is quite evident that the Larger Parish is more than a 'yokedfield!or a¹glorified circuit!of preaching appointmen","cbCaiptipg5ivmzn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiptipg5ivmzn","pdf",1232646,"English","# The Larger Parish and Rural Reconstruction Unit\n## A 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