Sentences with phrase «christian house churches»

He ran an orphanage in the country and was imprisoned after allegedly helping to lead illegal underground Christian house churches in the country.

This article states the pastor is, «the head of a network of Christian house churches in Iran».

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent advisory group appointed by the president and Congress to monitor religious freedom around the world, Wednesday expressed «deep concern» for Nadarkhani, the head of a network of Christian house churches in Iran.

On this very site, or nearby, Paul's Letter to the Romans might first have been read aloud in a Christian house church.

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A court has rejected an appeal made on behalf of four Iranian Christian converts who were all charged with propagating house churches and promoting «Zionist Christianity».

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

According to Dr Bullivant's report, which will be launched at the House of Commons on Tuesday, the Anglican and Catholic churches are struggling to retain people brought up as Christians.

Christian charity Housing Justice Cymru found churches in the Caerphilly, Newport and Swansea areas served the destitute at 20 different centres across the period, amounting to that time.

Meanwhile, Iraq's beleagured president Nouri al - Maliki accused the organisation of trying to destroy the «centuries - old heritage» of Christians in Iraq, he said: «What is being done by the Daesh terrorist gang [ISIS] against our Christian citizens in Ninevah province, and their aggression against the churches and houses of worship in the areas under their control, reveals beyond any doubt the extremist criminal and terrorist nature of this group, he said.

It was at a place called The Potter's House Christian Fellowship Church.

Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult - like or abusive practices at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.

To review: In their letters to the early church, the apostles Peter and Paul include what you might call a Christian remix of the traditional Greco - Roman household codes, which detailed the responsibilities of a male head - of - house, his wives, slaves, and adult children (see Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, and 1 Peter 3).

House church proponents claim their small groups are sort of a throwback to the early Christian church in that they have no clergy and everyone is expected to contribute to the teaching, singing and praying.

The members of this «house church» are part of what experts say is a fundamental shift in the way U.S. Christians think about church.

Find a small group within the church or your local house church or find some Christians who you can relate your life questions with... your picture was a church right?

Number 2 not going to church can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nchurch can be harmful to you not to them this is the problem with many Christians claiming they can serve God at home rather than going to the house of God it's not a social service you are doing when you go to Church you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always nChurch you don't go for hypocrites they are not Christians they are wolves in sheep clothing your example of worship is always needed.

NOW, BECAUSE HE WANTS A WHITE MAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE, HE TAKES DOWN HIS WEBB SITE AND SUPPORTS MITT ROMNEY AND SAYS THE MORMON CHURCH IS NOW A CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Latin American Protestant seminaries, theologians and publishing houses have a relatively limited space in which to move, work and think — in part because of the financial and ideological pressures of North American Christian churches, mission boards and societies.

Similarly, parents who select church - housed child care partly in the hope that their children will receive instruction in Christian teachings may be disappointed.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

But the formal rupture with the church, in the belief that there could be a Christian house of learning bound by no communion to an actual church, made these activities inappropriate, and after a generation of increasingly awkward continuance they had to be eliminated.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

well in my city, I count about 8 christian radio stations, I have 5 churches within a mile of my house, a mormon temple, a bunch of christian bill boards, and every weekend I have people knocking on my door..

Meanwhile, United Nations human rights experts have issued a statement, urging Iran to ensure «a fair and transparent final hearing» for three Iranian Christians who have been sentenced for «conducting evangelism» and «illegal house church activities,» among other charges.

The family - cluster house - church is one of the most promising spiritual growth groups available to support Christian parents in the nurture and instruction of their own children.

Churchmen seemed to have no ideas at all on the subject (6) The earliest form of Christian marriage was a simple blessing of the newly wedded, «in facie ecclesiae» — outside the churches closed doors — to keep the pollution of lust out of God's house.

A family - cluster house - church appeals primarily to adults who are already committed Christians and to families in which the parents are eager for an extended family experience.

He belonged to the Christian church in that city — a church still meeting in the house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 -house of one of the great families, (See F. V. Filson, «The Significance of the Early House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 -House Churches,» Journal of Biblical Literature 58: 105 - 12.)

The Total Woman (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revel, 1973), Virginia R. Mollenkott, Women, Men, and the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon, 1977); Helen Andelin, Fascinating Womanhood (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Pacific Press, 1963); Don Williams, The Apostle Paul and Women in the Church (Van Nuys, Calif.: BIM Publishing Co., 1977); Larry Christenson, The Christian Family (Minneapolis: Bethany Fellowship, 1970); Gladys Hunt, Ms. Means Myselj (Grand Rapids: Erdmans, 1972); Letha Scanzoni and Nancy Hardesty, Al1, We're Meant to Be (Waco: Word Books, 1974); Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be a Woman (Wheaton: Tyndale House, 1976); George W. Knight, III, The New Testament Teaching on the Role Relationship of Men and Women (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977).

Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.

The White House hopeful described her experience becoming a Christian as a 16 - year - old, when she said she walked into a church one day with some friends and felt called to the altar.

In my own church, I see how several times during the month, groups of fellow Christians, armed with a list of local homes in disrepair, go at no cost to fix a front porch, or gutters, or save a poor widow from having her house condemned.

Christian Baroness Cox joined other members of the House of Lords and church leaders to hold meetings with the Assad regime.

«Christians therefore have the right to deny entry to any religious department officer who requests entry into a meeting at a house, church premise, or any private property used for Christian worship and activities,» wrote Eugene Yapp, secretary - general for the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), in an advisory to the nation's nearly 2,500 evangelical churches.

Additionally, nearly 56,000 people were displaced, forced to flee into the forests, as mobs burned down more than 5,600 houses, 300 churches, and other Christian institutions.

Whether we're in a megachurch or a small house church, whether we went to seminary or we never did, whether we observe the Church calendar or have never prayed the liturgy, whether we listen to Christian music or turn up our church, whether we went to seminary or we never did, whether we observe the Church calendar or have never prayed the liturgy, whether we listen to Christian music or turn up our Church calendar or have never prayed the liturgy, whether we listen to Christian music or turn up our noses.

Active in what would now be called «Christian community development,» with an emphasis on affordable housing, Hill was a frequent speaker to churches and charitable societies, and she sometimes rebuked her....

My first youth group was my sister, myself and two other girls in the house church; by the time we were in Year 12 it had grown to 140 young people, and only eight of us with Christian parents.

A house church Christian in China's southern Guangdong province was recently blacklisted from employment after being arrested for his faith.

Why is it that Christians — whether mega church pastors or house church proponents — all use the same «I'm right, and you are damned if you disagree with me» verses?

To do this, it partners with the Association for Christian Thoughtfulness (ACT), which helps churches distribute materials on HIV / AIDS, abuse, and other social needs to 200 houses at a time.

Roman flags didn't stand next to Christian flags in first - century house churches, and followers of Jesus viewed themselves as citizens of One: One Lord, One baptism, One kingdom of sojourners scattered across the earth as colonies of heaven.

So a Christian's house gets destroyed by a flood because they weren't giving enough money to the church, yet nothing happens to a murderer because he repents before God takes the time to punish him?

He added that he stands with Catholics and other Christians who opposed the government mandate, though it's not completely clear if he's satisfied by a White House adjustment to the rule that mollified some Catholics, if not the Catholic Church.

In the historical context, these churches housed the vast majority of American Christians from the colonial era up until the early 20th century where they began to lose membership due to their being labeled too «liberal».

My mum and dad are very strong Christians and I went to the Church of England church that was a stone's throw from the Church of England church that was a stone's throw from the church that was a stone's throw from the house.

While there is agreement in principle among Christians that all persons are equal before God, the reality of racial prejudice, whether based on biology, geography, education, economics, color, nationality or any other discriminating factor, must be addressed by the church in proclaiming its gospel and putting its own house in order.

A major spike in the harassment and arrest of Iranian Christians in recent months is re-vealing just how nervous the Islamic republic is about the prodigious success of house churches, say Iranian Christian leaders.

Wahlberg's claim that the Apostle Peter's «first successors might have been something like the leaders or chairmen of the presbyterial college at Rome» is belied by the careful scholarship of Peter Lampe, who, as we point out in our book, «developed the «fractionation thesis» to illustrate the house - church - decentralized flavor of the city along with its various Christian districts.»

It appears the couple then planted a church in the region, for when Paul writes back to the Christians in Corinth, he passes along greetings from «Aquila and Priscilla and the church that meets in their house.»