Sentences with phrase «as the church expanded»

Most especially, the black man's having been «cursed as to the priesthood» had made for difficulty as the church expanded in South America.

As the church expanded in wealth and numbers, offices and auxiliary duties multiplied.

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The autism wing at Double Churches Middle School was expanded to include five full Marcus Model classrooms as well as three additional full - time teachers and six paraprofessionals.

Ho's secular music career was launched in 2002 as a «Crossover Project,» meant to reach non-Christians and expand the church.

And the Church in the 20th century hadn't always got its language and style right: Casti Connubii in the 1930s says wise and true things about marriage and family life, but didn't somehow quite manage to tackle the emerging questions being raised by women as educational opportunities for them expanded and new responsibilities cametheir way in public, commercial, and professional life.

The few attempts to systematize mission studies as an academic discipline within or about the movement have been concerned mainly with «how to» convert the «heathen» and expand the Church.

His early academic affections lay chiefly in the Balkans, especially Bulgaria, but later these expanded to embrace the whole of the oikoumene of the Greek Orthodox Church as well as the eastern Mediterranean.

As the church grew and expanded, they wrestled with the question about who Jesus truly was.

The New York wife of a Presbyterian pastor, for instance, gave up the strict regimen of Weight Watchers in 1972 to form 3D (Diet, Discipline, Discipleship), advertised as «a Christian counterpart to national weight - watcher programs» and expanding to more than 5,000 churches and 100,000 participants by 1981.

As populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centurAs populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th century.

The church is declining in numbers even as the population numbers expand.

Greg Valerio, Fairtrade International gold and precious metals programme co-ordinator said: «The Church's role is as significant today as it ever was as we continue to fight to bring the benefits to those who need it the most and to expand Fairtrade into new areas such as the luxury jewellery market.

Churches can sometimes view events, materials, and books offered by nationally popular parachurch teachers as an easy way to expand their offerings.

By the early 1830s, through the persuasive evangelism of Walter Scott and through union with Barton Stone's Christian movement, what had begun as a voluntary society became a rapidly expanding association of churches.

This expanded Synagogue Bible served as the first Scripture of the early Church.

A pope can only help develop and expand upon truths contained in the Jewish - Christian story of salvation as recorded in the Bible and preserved in what is believed to be the divinely guided tradition of the Church.

Mission involved encouraging more and more church activities as the church sought to expand the domain of religion.

The pastor of a suburban congregation finds herself increasingly torn between a dozen committees as her neighborhood grows and the membership of her church expands.

Whereas Jesus has turned down selfish individualism, power, control, riches, fame, recognition, and glory as a means of accomplishing His mission, the church fully embraced such things as a means to spread the Gospel, fulfill the Great Commission, and expand the Kingdom of God on earth.

God, as the Architect of the church, in His endeavors to expand the church, created a model for us.

Rather, we find ourselves expanded by the gaze of the other within, in whose reflection (as in a mirror) we see all others also with the same eyes in whose loving gaze the many are being drawn into the one: the mystical body of Christ that is the Church.

Finally, the answers made to these two types of questions will interconnect in complex ways with answers made to the question of how the school as community is related to church communities: Is the school itself an ordered Christian congregation; is it an expanded version of the academic aspect of the work of ministerial leadership in a settled congregation; is it an agency for the extension education of practicing clergy?

She wants open dialog and mutual respect, and would like to see the tradition in which she was raised and obviously still loves continue to embrace her as she endeavors to re-articulate theology, expand the church's borders, and open its doors to more and more people who have been marginalized and even excluded.

But as the nation grew and the Churches expanded they found theological training in the homes of individual pastors insufficient in quantity and quality.

It began as a very small program in the North Park Covenant Church in 1970 and continued to expand over the next three decades.

The bill, known as the Child Victims Act, would expand the statute of limitations for victims of abuse, had opposed by the Catholic Church, but pushed for by victim advocates and The Daily News in a series of pointed front - page headlines.

This dating service got it's start in 1991 as a Singles Network for churches and since then has expanded to the internet.

This dating service got its start in 1991 as a singles network for churches and since then expanded to the internet.

Union Baptist Church's reputation for Civil Rights advocacy and political empowerment expanded in the 1960s as they championed the desegregation of Gywnn Oak Park, the election of Congressman Parren J. Mitchell, and the work of the «Goon Squad» civil rights group.

Feel free to expand your search to the surrounding areas and adjacent cities, such as Worton, Still Pond, Rock Hall, Kennedyville, or even Church Hill.

While they are not in business to make a profit, churches still expand and grow as their ministry and congregations grow.

More and more counselors, churches, and clients joined together as Safe Harbor Christian Counseling began to expand its impact.