Sentences with phrase «american churches»

The second challenge I see facing American churches today (I discuss the first one here) is how the Church engages postmodernism in American culture.

The assembly at Evanston brought home firsthand to the American Churches the meaning and significance of the World Council of Churches.

And it is precisely in failing to make this distinction that American churches have gone astray, on both sides of the political spectrum.

Compared with the approximately 5 per cent who were members of churches at the end of the colonial period our present situation is not bad, (Year Book of American Churches, 1947 ed., p. 159.)

It is the cultural disestablishment of American churches that has been especially painful and bewildering to Presbyterians and other mainline Protestants.

«Remenber all scpritures are inspired words from God, my point is, Jesus wants us to be more than religious, but obedient.Jefferson is just stating that American Churches have become more corrupted with its religious practices that they have forgotten about jesus along the way.The church has taken scriptures and have use them according to what is pleasing to themselves.Jesus wants us to forget about what is pleasing to ourselves and follow him, be like him, love him (means be obedient to him) and ignore what we have known as religion.I define religion as jefferson is using in the video as an act of man pretending or decieving himself into believing that he know God and that he is better than others.He shows that by what he know / pratice not really whats in his heart and by serving how we choose which is pleasing to us, so we use God as a vessel praticing holy rituals teaching what we have made tradition and we have a eternal life with God.God created religion in order for us to remenber him and have a personal relationship with him through his son regardless of the many mistakes we have made in the past.We need to remenber God Forgets our past «he sperate our sins from us as far as the east is from the west».

The state of the American churches today is neither good nor bad, but indifferent.

American churches have made Jesus and god into a their image: a capitalist loving american who thinks that American can do no wrong.

We didn't see any scary sheep (just rugged ones)-- they must only live in North American churches.

There they could gawk and gape and revere, as high schoolers are enabled and goaded to do during spring vacation trips to sacred sites in Washington, D.C. Are the young people in American churches grasping, or able to grasp, this hero?

We typically don't say white or Caucasian churches so why do we say black or Afro - American churches?

African - American churches that serve impoverished urban areas argue compellingly that many kids in their neighborhoods are left out of the «digital revolution» because they do not have home computers.

Participants in the present conflict over families within American churches and denominations would do well to take the modernization factor more seriously than they have in recent debates.

Indeed, it appears that theologians exert a diminishing influence within the life of American churches as well.

This is no small part of the reason why the American churches, with all their weakness, are in general in a healthier condition than the state - supported churches of Europe.

It is fairly well established that predominent African - American churches are excused from the separation of church and state.

This fact helps us understand the horror of quite moderate African Christians when Euro - American churches dismiss biblical strictures against homosexuality as rooted in the Old Testament, and therefore outmoded.

In its pursuit certain great American churches consider themselves to be integral parts of society.

But the preoccupation of the leaders of the American churches with the crumbling foundations of European churches seems somewhat gratuitous when the foundations of their own churches are crumbling under their very feet for exactly the same reasons.

After the churches in Europe have heatedly debated the truth claims of a theological position, the American churches appropriate that portion of it which will «work.»

As organizations American churches strike one as being on the whole marvelously well run.

There are of course a few individual exceptions of men and women who by faith have transcended the limitations of their respective German and American churches and have entered as persons into the fellowship of the universal community of faith.

While the fragmentation of American churches poses obstacles to the kind of ecclesiastical consensus reached in Germany in the 1930s or the Philippines in the 1980s, some kind of convocation of theologically orthodox bodies could presumably join to consider the duty of Christians under the present order.

We've surveyed traditional Sunday School model churches, missions - focused churches, mainline denominations, African - American churches and churches representing a wide range of geographies, sizes and styles.

We haven't factored in the finances required to keep church doors open, lights on, and staff paid (not to mention the extravagant spending of a lot of American churches).

Here was a chance for American Churches to operate on a foreign field under American control.

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Cooper sends her students to visit African American churches on Wednesday nights, where they often find a warm welcome.

Gumbel appeared live via satellite to North American churches that had signed up for an «Introduction to Alpha» day

What is different, though, between homosexuality in America and polygamy in Africa is that no mainline Christian Church in Africa has normalized polygamy as a biblically sanctioned Christian marriage as some mainline American churches in the West, including the PC (USA), have done with homosexuality.

Home to perhaps a quarter of the population in much of the South, African - American churches have provided the incubator in which a distinct religious - political vision of equality and justice has been nurtured.

African - American churches have long flourished with clergy who work at one job during the week and preach on Sundays.

The pre-Civil War schism is significant less because it disrupted unity and more because it tells Goen and us how culturally captive American churches are.

I am discouraged about the direction of the Euro - American churches and Euro - American society today.

As I express my hopes for the renewal of practical Christian thinking in the Euro - American churches, I hope you will consider the similarities and differences with the Korean and Korean - American ones.

Compilations such as Ph. Schaff's Creeds of Christendom, Neve's Churches and Sects, Frank S. Mead's Handbook of Denominations, Marcus Bach's They Found a Faith, E. T. Clark's «Small Sects, the Study of Organized Religion in the United States,» in the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, W. W. Sweet's The American Churches, and H. W. Schneider's Religion in 20th Century America provide lists and summary descriptions of the groups that compose the American religious scene.

Mostly the article is a series of quotes from ministers of largely African American churches talking about how churches should mobilize their congregations to participate in education — participating on and voting for school boards and generally getting involved.

In August 1939 he produced an essay on the North American churches titled «Protestantism Without Reformation.»

As her media career took off, her music royalties dropped as American churches stopped singing her songs in light of her support for gay marriage.

A survey released in January from LifeWay Research indicated that, despite broad support for the idea of helping refugees, many American churches had concerns:

I am describing the prevailing situation in the oldline Euro - American churches.

At the opposite extreme, Latin American liberation theology has had much the relation to Latin American churches that the social gospel had to the North American churches.

As the baby boomer generation ages, a surge in elderly congregants will provide a tremendous opportunity to American churches.

American churches never «competed» politically in that they never set the rules of competition or determined jurisdiction, but this did not keep them out of the political arena.

World hunger has served to mobilize the resources of the American churches as few other issues have done.

Unfortunately, American churches are far from immune from predatory behavior.

It seems most books on church health focus on the big and popular churches, forgetting that about 90 % of American churches have 100 people or less.

This introduced a break between theology and the American churches.

In the late nineteenth century, the pursuit of perfection amounted to an obsession in American churches.

The Pentecostal idea of a «second blessing,» marked by speaking in tongues, has now returned to influence American churches of every stripe in the form of the charismatic movement.