Sentences with phrase «many conservative churches»

Like was drilled into my brain when I was in the conservative church, Lauren and Yen have been taught, among many other things, that masturbation and being gay (one which is a sexual act and one which is an identity) is wrong.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in Conservative churches (and I am still casting off theologies that were biased).

Ironically I went from what what most people would consider to be an extremely liberal and open minded church to a (somewhat) more conservative church, and find it more open to honest self examination.

Why the issue of homosexuality has posed such a problem for conservative churches relates to their understanding of Scripture.

Mainliners, for their part, can offer this satisfying explanation: while conservative churches have offered people a simplistic faith.

He pointed out that the human rights ordinance «had brought the community's conservative churches face to face with the problem of homosexuality for the first time.»

Gays are marginalized... and hated, reviled, made fun of, used for fundraising for conservative churches and on and on and on.

The young are fleeing the conservative churches they view as bigoted.

They will form the next generation conservative churches to fit their feelings in this, and Christianity's opposition to gays will become history.

I've come to realize after growing up in a conservative church and then moving away from that environment that the majority of people that sincerely believe the Bible is to be taken completely literally have never read it all.

3) Your assessment that all the young are fleeing the conservative church seems only to take into account the collegiate years.

Anthea Butler, a columnist with Religion Dispatches magazine, says Miller is invoking an old theme in fundamentalist and conservative churches: that any new media - like movies, television and radio - is sinful.

Despite the hopes I have had for the churches in Britain, I have to admit that the areas of church growth have in most cases been amongst the more conservative churches.

The question, however, is whether despite the growth of conservative churches both in Europe and North America and in other parts of the world, and the likelihood that they will remain strong, they offer the key to the future in a world that is changing very quickly.

National Council of Churches staffer Dean Kelley in 1972 produced a best - selling analysis, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing.

I believe in the power of the blood of Jesus but now this leaves me afraid to admit it, for I'm already pegged as superstitious and into magic — seems no different than the boogyman stories my once conservative church tried to lay on me, that my protection is in their oversight, that if I leave them my life would be destroyed, and more — we must be careful in our ernest seeking after truth that we don't become what we have despised and that we don't put on others our perspectives and understandings.

By some estimates, some 600 congregations have since left the ELCA for more conservative churches.

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

Some of the differences become theologically technical, with distinctions drawn not only between mainline and conservative churches, but also between different varieties of evangelicalism, fundamentalism, and pentecostalism.

Surprisingly, mainline churches were also less likely than conservative churches to attract members from nontraditional households.

Since the 1970s, the conservative churches have been in the ascendancy, and their leaders understandably think that it is their turn to try to frame the moral challenges for the society.

A decade later, we might well ask ourselves whether what we are experiencing today is a spiritual awakening, or something better described as a numerical multiplication of evangelicals due to the success of conservative churches and parachurch evangelism ministries.

Kelley produced massive evidence on the decline of liberal or «mainline» churches, in contrast to conservative churches that were enjoying a bull market.

This gained currency with the late Dean Kelley's 1972 book, Why Conservative Churches Are Growing.

I will never step foot in a conservative church again.

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

I mean, obviously, to support those who think of the future usefulness of these bodies, and of their federative structures, in «gathered - church» more than in «churchly» terms — at that juncture I agree with Dean Kelley (Why Conservative Churches Are Growing [Harper & Row, 1972]-RRB- To put this concretely, let me offer just one example.

I was brought up in the church, a quite conservative church.

Most the members (and I say this as a compliment because I am one to) have been rejected and hurt by more conservative churches.

If this denomination splits, within minutes the new conservative church will be organized into warring factions.

In the United States most preaching, even in quite conservative churches, has a primarily psychological character.

Today, homosexuality tops the list for many conservative churches.

This, he argues, accounts for the success of strict or conservative churches in a so - called secular age.

The usual assertions are (1) that this kind of religion is today on the defensive; (2) that the defensive posture is occasioned by the flourishing of «conservative churches» (although the alleged liberal enervation is also seen in more autonomous terms); (3) that the growth in religious conservatism and conservative churches is itself the result of widespread reaction against «secular humanist» values and against those who hold such values; (4) that our society as a whole has been experiencing a breakdown in moral consensus, a loss of moral coherence somehow connected with a decline in oldline Protestant dominance; and (5) that some or all of these happenings have been quite sudden, so that the early 1960s can be taken as a kind of benchmark — as a time before the fall.

As a pastor's kid who had grown up in a small, moderately conservative church, the sheer...

If you attend a conservative church, some label you «un-spiritual,» and if you attend a charismatic church, some may say you are «too spiritual.»

As a pastor's kid who had grown up in a small, moderately conservative church, the sheer volume of people in the room floored me.

Indeed, in historical perspective the figures for membership and attendance could easily be used to argue that the so - called conservative churches have been growing less spectacularly over the past 20 years than in the period from 1920 to 1965.

Liberal and conservative churches have sought to reverse the proliferation of explicit and degrading depictions of human sexuality.

Dean Kelley's 1972 book Why Conservative Churches Are Growing contributed to the debate by providing other data for the dissenters.

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 is common to explain such vast differences by speculating that conservative churches must surely have begun with smaller numbers.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Conservative churches turn out to be indirectly ensuring the survival of liberal churches this way a proportion of their ordinands become more liberal and go on to pastor liberal congregations, or turn evangelical churches into liberal ones.

«On the whole, conservative churches tend to be stricter in terms of what they require people to believe and their demands upon them, something which generally makes an organisation stronger.

Pastoring conservative churches for 20 + years has taught me that too many professed Christians don't know what they might believe because of self induced Biblical illiteracy.

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

In the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relations.

The «old boys» are in charge of all the conservative churches.