Sentences with phrase «local particular churches»

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But who will go the distance and admit that in Century One we see nothing but the local church - which, generally speaking, encompassed the fellowship of all the saints in a particular city?

local catechisms and various catechetical supplements in use in the particular Churches should be examined toensure their complete conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Accordingly, in what follows the word «church» moves freely from reference to particular local institutions to ecclesiastical life generally.)

No matter that even in our own complex and secular day, when the old notion of «parish» as a particular area where people sleep and work has almost expired, the majority of people can still be ministered to by local churches for most of their lives if they are interested in the services of ministry.

They're just going to church with their friends, unaware that their congregation is a model for how to be «post» many things (postevangelical, postliberal, postconservative, postmodern) precisely by sinking its roots deeper into the local, the particular and the church catholic.

It suggests that maintaining healthy diversity among particular churches means decentralization and communication at the local level, but in global terms with global contacts.

For many theologically literate people, the «place» of religious experience is a local church, a particular building on a particular street in a particular town.

Even though the Church of Rome acquired particular respect because of its association with the apostles Peter and Paul and eventually became the point of reference for the whole Church, the relationship among the local churches and with Rome was not understood in the sense of jurisdictional superiority or subordination.

The local church bears a distinctive name to indicate, even in eases where one family rules the parish, that the congregation is not synonymous with a particular bond of flesh.

So closely do local churches accompany the growth and perpetuation of Christianity that their structure may seem an apostolic invention, but the followers of Jesus founded only particular churches, not the pattern of the congregation itself.

Hopewell had pursued his fascination with the congregation through a yearlong examination of a local United Methodist and a local Baptist congregation, and arrived in Indiana that fall with a presentation woven of insights about the two churches drawn from fields as diverse as history, economics, statistics and sociology, with particular emphasis on literary analysis, symbolic language, anthropology and mythology.

«For many if not most of the people I was coming into contact with in local churches, talking about their congregation meant citing statistics of one sort or another, or details of particular programs.»

We further observe that sometimes parts of our churches have subjugated the spirit, mind, will and voice of our people, particularly when Christian media initiatives invade other countries and cultures without an understanding of the life, realities and involvement of the local churches and Christian councils in a particular nation.

It is our responses to the particular meeting houses — us, relative to those houses — that make the local church what it is.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local cultural idioms.

«As church leaders, you may be approached by your local or national media outlets to make comments on Dr. Carson's candidacy, in particular as it relates to his membership in the church,» read a statement posted by the Adventist Review.

The local church bears a distinctive name to indicate... that the congregation is not synonymous with a particular bond of flesh.»

I've been thinking about establishing the shelf life of our particular expression of local church here.

In this argument, if the character of a particular local church were found to be Dionysian, the explanation would be that a deep paradigm of Dionysian norms and dynamisms informs the way the parish values and acts.

Generally the only real solution that was offered was to attend different sorts of planned activities and outings that were becoming held at one particular from the local churches.

Afternoon tea, church choir, and particular attention paid to manners and gentility preoccupy the townsfolk, including Anne Morrison (Margo Martindale), the local gardening doyenne.

In particular we have a long tradition of our lawyers being actively involved in local charities, churches, schools and politics.