Sentences with phrase «while traditional church»

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The changes also include giving clergy to option not to wear traditional vestments while performing official church ceremonies such as Holy Communion or weddings, baptisms and funerals.

It seems like you may be fighting against the grain in trying to doing church in a non-traditional way while being in a traditional context.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

While there is great respect for the traditional liturgy and worship of the Episcopal Church, the place is totally devoid of the stuffiness and stiffness you encounter in some more traditional churches whose favorite refrain seems to be, «we've always done it this way» with a subtle undertone of «please don't break anything.»

Growing numbers of church people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these people find their search for meaning more and more unmet by the church's teaching.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

Cultural differences block the communication between the traditional and the contemporary; or, the church is still emotionally related to the nineteenth - century conditions while the world is involved in the explorations and tensions of the twentieth century.

Silence was highly related to belief in traditional church doctrines: 95 per cent of the modernists preached on Proposition 14 while only 29 per cent of the traditionalists did so.

The church proclaimed and lived its tolerance while adopting a very traditional Protestant hymnody and worship style and a classical instrumental and choral repertoire.

While the conclave was not designed to embrace a specifically religious perspective, it was noteworthy that even many of the representatives of secular organizations attributed their interest in aging at least partially to their own churches» influence and traditional support for the elderly.

The result in Europe has been a mass exodus from the traditional churches which cling to the orthodox views, while in America there has arisen a much stronger fundamentalism.

George Barna, in his book Revolution, indicates that while numbers and involvement in traditional «brick and mortar» churches is declining, people who are committed to following Jesus in their lives, at their jobs, and among their friends, is expanding exponentially.

While people within the traditional church often complain that those who leave their «church» are abandoning God's church, the ones who leave actually feel that they are finding church for the first time.

I claim that Vosper, rather than blowing her own horn or trying to make a buck off the church while she can — as some have accused — is actually working in the spirit of Bishop Pike to bring about this same honest re-examination of traditional beliefs, polity, and social awareness and action as someone who appreciates the tradition and all it holds dear, but only in a different way than the church would wish.

While the decline of traditional women's ministry is largely anecdotal, it is tied to some well - documented trends in the American church, including the rise of working women and the gap between younger and older generations.

Eventually Yeltsin signed a new law which, while maintaining a theoretical separation of church and state, protected the Russian Orthodox Church and, surprisingly, the other «traditional» religions of Russia — Islam, Judaism and Buddhism — from the supposedly foreign incursions of the Protestant and Catholic chuchurch and state, protected the Russian Orthodox Church and, surprisingly, the other «traditional» religions of Russia — Islam, Judaism and Buddhism — from the supposedly foreign incursions of the Protestant and Catholic chuChurch and, surprisingly, the other «traditional» religions of Russia — Islam, Judaism and Buddhism — from the supposedly foreign incursions of the Protestant and Catholic churches.

While I share your concerns and disillusionment with much of what is practiced (or not practiced) in «traditional churches», you don't seriously believe that the «Open Circle» concept is the solution do you?

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But, in the meantime, while we are re-educating youth in new traditional religions and afterwards in ours, we shall not overtly lay a finger on existing churches, but we shall fight against them by criticism calculated to produce schism... (Emphasis added)

Barack Obama's friend Jim Wallis calls on the Church to reject traditional political divides, preach the gospel while feeding the poor, and reject the...

For example, while I led the funeral procession from the house of the deceased to the burial ground — dressed in the traditional attire of the local Christian priest, and accompanied by a band of church members singing Christian lyrics — there was a group of Dalit leaders, sometimes accompanied by a group of drummers, fulfilling the native Dalit ritualistic requirements.

While the remaining believers of the sponsoring church may imagine that the newcomers are being incorporated into the traditional undertaking of the college, in fact the opposite seems to be happening.

While the sanctity of marriage will be debated the Kirk earlier claimed its move towards greater acceptance of gay marriage would not compromise the Church's traditional view of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Following Jesus has led Genevieve to leave the institutional church and seek relationships with others outside the four walls of the traditional church building, while Shannon and Jessica have decided to remain within a traditional church setting, but switch from one church fellowship to another.

The recent, though scantily reported, rise within Jewry of a «Messianic» movement which, while affirming the continued theological validity of the Jewish people, also accepts Jesus as Israel's Messiah, could not have occurred in past centuries when the traditional churches held sway and routinely burned premillenial types at the stake as heretics.

While it is quite possible that the tried and true methods of traditional Christianity are exactly what Jesus wanted for the church 1900 years ago, or 1500 years ago, or 500 years ago, or even 50 years ago, what Jesus wants for the church may be very different today.

While Reformed churches have not recently produced any great preachers in the traditional sense (what denomination has?)

While no such congregation exists in the RCA, a growing number of churches have forsaken the traditional pattern of a quarterly and very penitential observance for a more frequent and joyous form of celebration.

Also, many non-Southern cities have a long traditional of Catholic K - 12 schools sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, subsidized by parishes; while the South, which has few Roman Catholics, also has few Catholic schools as a result.

Bespoke furniture is in keeping with the classic church style, while the berry accents are both traditional and uplifting.