Sentences with phrase «as the church approached»

As the church approached the second century, there was no uniform development in structure, theology and practice among different Christian groups.

However, as the church approaches 250 years, it doesn't contain the magic that used to be there.

Not exact matches

Tax these enormous, ornate, arrogant churches, mosques, synagogues as the commercial real estate they are and finally let them approach offsetting the horrendously inordinate burden they place on the infrastructure and staffing of our strapped communities.

Notwithstanding that I consider that there are some such flaws in the approach adopted by the Judge, I consider it is important that the church does acknowledge, as I do, that we were, and I include myself, at that time only at the beginning of learning how to deal with disclosures of abuse, and leaders such as myself did lack experience and training.

You hit the nail on the head and are giving me some excellent thoughts for approaching the younger set and seeing what they are looking for and how we as a church can reach out to them.

Biblicists will no doubt reject this approach as being wishy - washy and insufficiently prophetic, just as some activists have criticized Riverside Church's proposed «center for health of the city,» a think tank on urban problems.

The church can solve this problem by a «render unto Caesar» approach by relinquishing the legal role that the state has lumbered it with, and gets back to the basics of celebrating who God puts together — which, as stated in the previous verse, was between a man and woman instinct-wise.

It was by way of engaging with a woman taking a «feminist approach» (her words) to the abuse of women in the church using the rape of Tamar and the narrative about Lot asking those that wanted to rape the men to have the women instead as proof texts.

The Western theological approach to salvation is described simply as legalistic, and, according to Hart, apparently «a Roman Catholic church may hold a multitude of Masses at the same time».

Having been trained in a very critical approach to the New Testament that saw the material as largely shaped by the early church in the light of the resurrection, I have come to think that Jesus was indeed aware of a unique vocation, even if he did not consciously think of himself as the unique Son of God.

But as more and more churches are beginning to understand, this «big is better» approach does not work.

As the first anniversary of the Calais «Jungle» demolition approaches, a church in Essex said the situation has given the congregation a heart to help refugees.

As an Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Warehouse 242 is by doctrine and practice somewhere between the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), which is considered theologically liberal, and the Presbyterian Church in America, which broke off in the early 1970s to maintain a more traditionalist approach.

I have 2 questions: 1, Should elders approach church members and ask that their business tithe as well as their family household?

[20] Whereas the first approach maintains «the church [as] the principal vehicle of God's mission,» [21] the latter tends to reduce the church's place in God's mission «even to the point that it excluded the church's involvement.»

We often approach our church experience as consumers: «What can I get out of church?»

As one Roman Catholic writer was at pains to point out for the benefit of the pope in view of Khomeini's approach, the church does not live in the Middle Ages, and Muslims ought to be told so.

In the 1943 encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (On the Mystical Body of Christ), Pius XII addressed the meaning of membership in the Church, but, as Cardinal Dulles writes, Vatican II took a somewhat different approach.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The church school should include approaches such as this so that potentially harmful feelings can be expressed in nondestructive ways and thus diminished or redirected.

However, Pastor Johnson Sathyanathan, president of the Synod of Pentecostal Churches in Coimbatore told Morning Star India: «It is a well - planned conspiracy against the Christian community, as the Hindu extremists know that it is not easy to approach the collector's office for such permissions.

Does such a critical, yet faithful, approach as that outlined above imply that only the expert can arrive at an adequate Biblical understanding of the role of women in the church and family?

I have learned that when I approach my church and the kingdom of God as servant, truly desiring nothing more than to see the Lord encounter His people and set them free, I am often privileged with the opportunities to be a chosen vessel.

The latter approach takes seriously the present situation of the church but also envisions a congregation as existing over the passage of time.

This subject can be reflected in terms of the overall approach of the Church to human and social life, and in relation to the specific phenomenon as it has developed during the 1990s, after the fall of the soviet Empire.

As the ship approached America, it became evident that there was discontent among some who were not members of the Church.

Jeremy Myers, Here is the verse that tells that people should go to church, «not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.»

As the Red Guards approached his church he consumed the Blessed Sacrament to avoid profanation.

What I am calling for here is for the Birmingham programme to present that approach in a more systematic way which will show to best advantage the compellingnature of the Church's moral teaching as true.

Only the Christian Church (Disciple's), however, has gone in for this approach as a major part of its evangelism training.

Churches also sometimes utilize other approaches as well.

In Britain, numbers attending church have been decreasing continually in the postwar period, but there too there still seems to be a desire to have some kind of «spiritual» outlook — often involving a pick - and - mix approach to eastern religions as well as Christianity itself.

It's an approach to restoring the integrity of the Church worth keeping in mind as our «leaders» encourage us to relax and make ourselves comfortable in today's post-Christian culture.

We think that we have much to unlearn in regard to our modern approach to Scripture, and therefore the God of the Scriptures, and much to relearn as we seek to reJesus our lives and churches.»

«As we approach the 2017 Budget, I hope that the fact that the public think that it is important to protect church buildings for the future will provide the Chancellor with the evidence he needs to provide further funding, such as the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund, to protect churches for future generations.&raquAs we approach the 2017 Budget, I hope that the fact that the public think that it is important to protect church buildings for the future will provide the Chancellor with the evidence he needs to provide further funding, such as the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund, to protect churches for future generations.&raquas the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Fund, to protect churches for future generations.»

They approach the church primarily as a social - service provider.

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

Even though my book is about a specific topic — it's a gentle but provocative love letter to the Church about welcoming and affirming women — I approach it as art, not a message to be preached, or an argument to be made.

THE THEOLOGY WHICH CAN BEST SERVE THE CHURCH IN ITS MINISTRY TO THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE WILL TAKE THE FORM OF CHRISTIAN BIOPOLITICS — A UTOPIAN APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE QUEST FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE, WHICH TAKES AS ITS CENTRAL THEME THE FULFILLMENT OF LIFE WITHIN THE TOTALITY OF THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

Though there are people among the «priestly class», as you call it, that use the doctrine of inspiration to lord their educated / professional status over the average church members, there are plenty of others (such as my pastor, and probably most every Calvary Chapel pastor) who approach their charge as shepherds of the flock with the proper attitude of a helper and clarifier to the flock seeking to understand the meaning of the Bible.

But I did demur from what I thought is an unduly «church - centric» approach that does not care enough for the secular world as an arena of mission in our daily callings, and that seems too closed to the «world» as a source for building up a more wholesome common life.

The Reformers, as wonderful as they were, still retained the Magisterial, hierarchical, building - centered approach to doing church which began after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity.

This was never going to last, since heresy and relativism had, of course, never disappeared from the «papal agenda» and neither — perhaps more to the point — had his (and his predecessor's) analysis that disunity in the modern church was the result of a clash between two different interpretations of the Council itself, one right, the other wrong: as Benedict once more explained it, as his first Christmas as Pope approached in December 2005, «On the one hand, there is an interpretation that I would call «a hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture» [i.e., the line peddled by The Tabletfor thirty years]; it has frequently availed itself of the sympathies of the mass media, and also one trend of modern theology.

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

This approach has had a lasting influence on the Anglican church and on other churches, for example through William Temple and his contribution to the Life and Work Movement, which as we have seen, became part of the World Council of Cchurches, for example through William Temple and his contribution to the Life and Work Movement, which as we have seen, became part of the World Council of ChurchesChurches.

Certainly, every single parable in the tradition has to be approached with the basic assumption that, as it now stands, it represents the teaching of the early Church: that the voice is the voice of the risen Lord to the evangelist, and of the evangelist to the Church, not that of the historical Jesus to a group gathered by the sea of Galilee.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI's abdication and Francis's election, we face a strange situation in reflecting on the Church's trajectory: We must consider the actions of two men, both of whom are still alive.

As the book launch approaches, I've been warned by several advisors to avoid aligning myself with the «emerging church.»

Perhaps the most tangible result of these several conversations came when one of the participants approached me at church the following Sunday and exclaimed, «As soon as I left you, I called and we made uAs soon as I left you, I called and we made uas I left you, I called and we made up.

It is inevitable that as we seek partner with other churches in our area, we will run into the very attitudes and approaches that left many of us wounded.