Sentences with phrase «on behalf of the church which»

Then we prayed the «Prayers of the People,» culminating in these words which the congregation spoke together: «On behalf of the church which blessed your marriage, we now recognize the end of that marriage.

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Has this created another situation in which the WCC will refuse to speak forcibly on behalf of persecuted Christians because of the membership of government - approved church leaders from a Communist country?

Release International is an advocacy movement on behalf of the persecuted church, formerly known as Christian Mission to the Communist World which is part of the International Christian Association, a global alliance of fifty ministries working among the persecuted church These organisations will often urge readers to write to their MP or the appropriate ambassador to register concern at the way human rights are being flouted.

Recognizing the disarray of the church for which and to which he wrote, he wondered how it was possible to speak on behalf of such a church.

Parishioner Henry Borga requested the mass intention, on behalf of one Osama bin Laden, which is a long - standing tradition in the Catholic Church in which masses are offered for souls in purgatory or to remember someone who has died or in honor of someone still living.

The NRB report does not ignore the reckless and self - serving ways in which bishops escaped criminal liability by pleading guilty on behalf of their dioceses and handing important aspects of church governance over to civil authorities.

It is the notion of the ministry as representative and functional, standing for, and acting on behalf of, Christ; yet standing for Him and acting in His behalf as Christ Himself acts in the Church which belongs to Him.

Although there may be some variation on the specifics, broadly speaking, complementarians believe that women are biblically - bound to submit to male leadership in the home and in church life, which means that husbands are ultimately responsible for decision - making on behalf of their families and that women should refrain from assuming leadership positions over men in a church setting.

Each year, the WACC, which provides funding for communication development worldwide on behalf of churches throughout the world, is channeling less of its funds into large shortwave services and large publishing houses, and more into the development of small printing presses, the production of audiocassettes, local drama and music groups, and the use of communication forms indigeneous to the village life, such as story telling, puppets and mime.

Currently, IRS laws prohibits political campaign activity by charities and churches by defining a 501 (c)(3) organization as one «which does not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distributing of statements), any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.»

(Ephesians 4:1 - 7, 3:16) On the other side, when a member of the Church has to suffer for the good cause, he can say «I am making up what is lacking of Christ's sufferings on behalf of His body, which is the Church»On the other side, when a member of the Church has to suffer for the good cause, he can say «I am making up what is lacking of Christ's sufferings on behalf of His body, which is the Church»on behalf of His body, which is the Church».

In this representational sense the Church is that part of human society, and that element in each particular society, which moves toward God, which as the priest acting for all men worships Him, which believes and trusts in Him on behalf of all, which is first to obey Him when it becomes aware of a new aspect of His will.

But it should now be clear to white and black churchmen alike that the theological differences between them are very real, and that they form barriers which, in my opinion at least, are insurmountable for the present generation unless, of course, white churches are ready to make a radical commitment to the fight for justice on behalf of the oppressed.

In the early Church the sinner was only formally reconciled after doing penance, sometimes public penance in which the parish might join with him on his behalf, for a certain number of days.

His proposal of an inner church fellowship, which reminds one of the plan that Luther had entertained and quickly rejected at the beginning of the Reformation, represented a final, even desperate, effort to obtain for a minority in the church what he had hoped to realize on behalf of the whole community.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Beasley likewise doesn't find a particular personal relevance in St. Peter's Basilica in terms of its geographic or religious aspects, but he does certainly appreciate it as a space brilliantly designed to project a strong image - argument on behalf of a particular entity, the Catholic Church, which was grappling at that post-Reformation moment with power, morality, faith, longevity, and values.