Sentences with phrase «orthodox church experienced»

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We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who — while experiencing same - sex desires and feelings — nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression.

Essentially the orthodox Church wanted to defend its conviction that in the person of Jesus Christ and in the experience of God present in Christian life and worship, the believer was met by very God.

There is already every sign that these suspicions were misplaced, and that after years of amiable drift, Westminster could soon experience the firm and orthodox leadership it (along with the rest of the English and Welsh Church) has long needed.