Sentences with phrase «after church practices»

This has remained part of the fabric of society for some generations after church practices and beliefs ceased to engage the whole of society.

Not exact matches

After listing the moral failings of various religious groups and practices, Hitchens offered three conclusions: «The first is that religion and the churches are manufactured, and that this salient fact is too obvious to ignore.

It assembles every four years and determines ¯ after deliberating and voting ¯ what The United Methodist Church is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadreChurch is to teach and practice, and how the church is to order its life, during the next quadrechurch is to order its life, during the next quadrennium.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

But may we not ask such an «orthodox» Protestant whether his Church might not, after all, practice such tolerance which, existentially and ecclesially, would not be distinguishable from a recognition, even if it were not expressed by the authorities in so many words?

Even after the birth of the church in Acts 2, the vast majority of the early Christians were Jewish, and most of the Gentiles who converted were «God fearers» which means that they knew and respected the teachings of Judaism, and even followed many of the Jewish traditions and practices (cf. Acts 10:2).

While Morelos's Constitution of Apatzingán was never put into practice, the plan of Iguala (1821), drawn up by Iturbide after independence, also confirmed the official status of Catholicism as the state religion and denied toleration to all other religions.32 The war for independence, in other words, was reasonably conservative in purpose, especially with respect to the church.

The people of God recognize and discern the gift; the individual then discerns, responds, and submits; then after the commissioning, the community receives the practice within the church and in the world.

I was born and raised in a household where one parent was Catholic and one was Protestant, after being exposed to both religions I chose the Catholic Church, was confirmed, and will continue to practice the faith.

The Catholic Church is evil — always has been, always will be and anyone who is still a practicing Catholic after every evil this so - called church has done and continues to do, repeatedly, is misguided and spiritually Church is evil — always has been, always will be and anyone who is still a practicing Catholic after every evil this so - called church has done and continues to do, repeatedly, is misguided and spiritually church has done and continues to do, repeatedly, is misguided and spiritually blind.

Unethical or religious freedom??? There also seems to be another accepted practice of the Mormon Missionaries and LDS faithful members of baptizing prosepective church members into the LDS faith after only three visits of Book of Mormon and other religious lessons.

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rChurch can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rchurch will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

Chew, a co-defendant in the church's case, noted that his decision came after months of deliberation and only as a result of the breach between teaching and practice he saw at the church.

In the southwestern United States in the centuries after the Spanish came, it was the practice of the church to send European priests to the Indian pueblos.

If Christians believe that the church and the worship it offers to God ought in some ways to counter the norms and practices of the surrounding culture, then what does it mean that after spending so much of our time each week in front of computer monitors, cell phones, and sports bar TVs, we come to church on Sunday and happily position ourselves in front of the biggest screen of all?

After leaving seminary, Spencer Nix was ready to put his theology into practice by getting local churches involved in missions and outreach,...

After Hialeah, Florida, passed ordinances banning animal sacrifice (a common practice in Santeria), church members sued, arguing that the law was intended to specifically target them.

After church we had lunch and Jared and the girls headed to hockey practice.

He returned to practice after a three - year spell as president of a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints.