Sentences with phrase «during church revival»

Not exact matches

The first problem here is that, minus signs or not, the fluctuating growth rates for the oldline churches (quite healthy growth during the postwar revival; decline during the 1970s; some recovery in the first half of the «80s) tell us little if they are not compared, and compared over a number of decades, with the growth rates for the conservative churches.

It was in my childhood church, one summer during our usual long, hot, two - week August revival meeting, that 12 grown men «found God» and hit the sawdust trail.

Appalachian and Southern Christians often told stories about staggering into church and walking forward during the altar call to say the «sinner's prayer» during revival services that would often last for several weeks.