Sentences with phrase «national churches fellowship»

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In a «conciliar fellowship» every national or regional body represented would be a unified and inclusive expression of the church «in each place.»

In this context, the Congress called everyone to encourage and assist in the organization of evangelical fellowships among churches and missionary societies at national, regional and international levels.

Among the gratifications from church mentioned most often in a national survey of regular church attenders, for example, were feeling close to God (77 percent), the experience of worshiping God (60 percent), and a sense of companionship or fellowship (54 percent).

The Mennonites and Amish are members of Christian fellowships that «value simplicity, community, separation from the world and separation of church and state,» says Donald B. Kraybill, a senior fellow at Pennsylvania's Elizabethtown College and a national expert on these plain sect groups.