Sentences with phrase «christian church»

Its pressing task is quite simply to tell people what the basic content of Christianity is, and to give them some information of what the Christian Church is achieving in the face of ignorance, fear, disease and sheer physical human need in many parts of the world.

«The City Council's action today is not the final word,» said Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville and chairman of a group called Stand4MarriageDC.

The answer is that some of us don't believe that the church run by Rev. Wright IS a Christian church.

Accepting the divine entry of God into human history through the man Jesus Christ explains the extraordinary strength and resilience of the Christian Church, and also why it is a mistake to regard it as a purely human organization of those who happen to share the same religious views.

Another way to say it would be to observe that my story testifies to the truth of the position the Christian church has held with almost total unanimity throughout the centuries — namely, that homosexuality was not God's original creative intention for humanity, that it is, on the contrary, a tragic sign of human nature and relationships being fractured by sin, and therefore that homosexual practice goes against God's express will for all human beings, especially those who trust in Christ.»

Cyprus's Orthodox Christian Church has defrocked a priest for sexually abusing his stepdaughter when... More

And this is exactly what the Christian Church should be.

These are the same dunces who criticize him for attending a christian church led a Reverend Wright.

Alongside this stream of modern philosophic and scientific thought, we have the Christian Church, labouring hard to preserveher inheritance and at last gaining a little in Europe, but mainly because of the bitter fruits already ripening in the communist - atheist countries, not because of any new stirring from within herself.

It is quite obvious that bigots like gibb would not take any organization other than christian church as a moral authority.

Various dictionaries are very useful, such as The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed.

Even if I were to equate attendance at Christian church and attendance at Jewish synagogue, I could not have followed Jesus» example had I lived in his day — because I am a woman.

Instead, it refers to the whole Christian Church, throughout time.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.»

Hence we must conclude with Professors Branscomb, Lohmeyer, Werner, Bishop Rawlinson, and other recent writers, that Mark's point of view is that which was «in general characteristic of the Gentile - Christian Church of the first century,» but that it was not, «in the narrower and more distinctive sense of the words, a «Pauline» Gospel.»

This is the most dramatic reform needed, as well as one of the most difficult to achieve, except where already present, as in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

We need to ask ourselves these questions and think deeply about them before we can even begin to start solving the problem of abuse in the Christian church.

Ukip's acting leader has revealed he wouldn't want to personally see any new mosques built in the UK as «Islam doesn't allow a Christian church or a Sikh temple to be built in its heartland, because it's in the Koran».

It seems that the Christian Church at large conducts itself as a business and has given itself over to greed and it's entanglements.

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

In the history of educational enterprise of the Christian Church in India, there were several articulations and re-articulations of the Christian identity in Higher Education as spiritual responses of the Christian Mission / Church to changes in the cultural scenario of India.

Traditionally the Christian church has internalized its own experience of exile within an alien culture and adopted a spirituality suffused with exilic qualities.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

Here was a direct attack on the Christian Church!

Much conversion to the Christian church was not expected though there were a few in Bengal.

Pastor Gerhard Linn was active in the Christian church in East Germany.

As a Christian church, we are being addressed on these issues by our surrounding culture.

In general, when a Christian church uses the political arena to impose actions on women without corresponding actions on men, do you feel feminists need to respond as Christians, or as citizens?

Furthermore, Smith notes, the assertion that we can only know Jesus through the Bible «fails to explain how the Christian Church for its first three hundred and fifty years — when it did not possess the defined biblical canon as we know it — managed to know Christ.»

West Hills, California (CNN)- A Los Angeles Christian church and school that had planned two host two Chinese students who died in Saturday's Asiana 214 crash in San Francisco grieved at a worship service on Sunday.

Restart your life, you don't have to go to church, but I recommend going to a Christian church.

If the dogmas of the Christian Church from the second to the sixth century centuries express finally and sufficiently the truths concerning the topics about which they deal, then the Greek philosophy of that period had developed a system of ideas of equal finality.

It was customary among the Reformers themselves to speak of a «valid» ministry as one in which «the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments be duly administered according to Christ's ordinance» (to quote the Anglican Thirty - nine Articles, which are paralleled in other and similar «confessions»); and the history of the ministry in the Christian Church as a whole makes it abundantly clear that «authority to preach the Word of God,» or the right to «dispense the Word of God,» or the giving to the candidate of the Church's recognition and authority to be «preacher of the Gospel» — all these are more or less synonymous phrases — has been an integral part of ordination.

My present concern is the liturgical center: the Reformed churches, Presbyterians, United Methodists, United Church of Canada and portions of the free - church tradition (United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]-RRB-.

For many the use of the set services of the Christian Church, as found in the traditional prayer books, can be of great value.

It has its setting in what the German form - critics have called the sitz - im - leben, the «life - situation,» of the primitive Christian Church.

As for what David is doing... once you cease being a card carrying institutional Christian church clone and become a true follower of Jesus, things change.

The Christian church has not consistently understood atonement in cosmic terms.

This is the first confession of the Christian church.

The Congregationalists carried on discussions with the Episcopalians, Presbyterians, and Universalists, and finally united with the Christian Church in 1931.

On that day, Polycarp, the eighty - six - year - old leader of the Christian church in Smyrna, was cruelly put to death by fire and sword because he refused to renounce Jesus Christ.

It is impossible to list separately the many leaders in the Christian Church in Australia, of all denominations, who were so generous to me during my stay in their country; but I thank them with all my heart for all that they did to make my visit memorable and pleasant.

There is no evidence that Hitler himself, in his personal life, ever expressed any individual belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church» — Laurence Rees

What can we as a Christian church learn from these cultural prophets?

Yes god has been good to me so much so that I am PROUD to never wish to stoep foot into an insane asylum I MEANT Christian church ever again.

The Christian Church has always conceived its ministry to be responsible for such personal communication and care.

«I do notice that sometimes, like on health care, when [Obama] says it's the right thing to do, it's him saying you love God by loving your neighbor,» says Watkins, who leads a mainline denomination called Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

I notice that the people around me, from Christian church - goers to Christian non-church-goers to non-Christian non-church-goers to atheists to whatever... I've found around me a rich...

Verity A. Jones is pastor of Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Any real faith (meaning the kind that actually does move mountains) died out of the «Christian Church» when the Bible was canonized, with little exception, and most of the exceptions were exterminated.