Sentences with phrase «few denominational leaders»

Few denominational leaders are either celebrities or well - known spiritual guides in their own church bodies; the media have created spokespersons entirely outside the line of appointed and elected officialdom who tend to speak for the churches.

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The results of this report offer an array of rich findings for church planters, planting coaches and denominational leaders, who should find in it encouragement and helpful information, as well as a few warnings.

Although denominational leaders, seminary professors, and pastors may know that dreams of American manifest destiny influenced nineteenth - century theology, few seem to recognize the ways in which the American Dream still influences the church today.

When a group convenes on the first evening, it is made up of twenty men and a few women who are usually strangers to each other; who come from different parts of the country or even of the world; who represent the doctrine and tradition of from eight to twelve different churches, Protestant and Catholic; and who are engaged in different kinds of ministries — education, local church, seminary leaders, denominational executives, and others.