Town and Country Church Institute

• Pages

  • about tcci
  • concentrated studies
  • gettysburg seminary

• what’s “town and country?”

  open country up to towns of about 10,000 in population; "rural and small town" is an equivalent term

• what is the church?

  "It is also taught that at all times there must be and remain one holy, Christian church. It is the assembly of all believers among whom the gospel is purely preached and the sacraments are administered according to the gospel.... It is not necessary for the true unity of the Christian church that uniform ceremonies, instituted by human beings, be observed everywhere." Augsburg Confession article VII

• what’s an institute

  an intentional effort to maintain a focus of study and a community of discussion around a certain reality or topic