Sentences with phrase «among younger churches»

A pattern is set for all Paul's apostolic work, whereby his presence among the young churches has a remarkable effect on conversions, only to be undermined in his absence by the mistaken insights and follies of disloyal followers.

Not exact matches

I am one of the RCIA team leaders in my church and there are strong conversions among the young University students that desire to enter the Catholic fold.

That would be fine if the entire point of this story is how polls and studies and trendlines show an ever decreasing church attendance rate overall, especially among younger people.

As David Kinnaman explains in his enlightening book, You Lost Me, one of the top six responses among young adults is that they left the church because they didn't feel like their pastors, mentors, and friends took their questions about faith seriously.

Back in November 1977 the co-founder of Faith Movement wrote, as editor of this magazine, «There will be no traditional priesthood left in Europe in ten years time, among the younger clergy, unless a start is urgently made to teach priests the full faith, the full spiritual heritage of the Church, and the full content of the life of Christ in the traditional image of the priest of the Western Patriarchate, the priesthood of the Latin rite, which is the priesthood of the fullness of Peter and Paul.»

If this positive view of celibacy is conveyed, «then we shall see the most distinguished among the younger generation fired up with the inspiration to feed the flock of God... and their deep hearts will grasp the whole idea of the Church and accept it into themselves as a living power» (p73).

On the other hand, I must admit that among young adults (myself included), there seems to be an unhealthy appetite for stories about the church that are exclusively negative.

The third group among whom this book deserves the widest possible dispersion is young adults, cradle, converted, or just looking around, who are turning to the Church for its seriousness in a world where frivolity and idolatry are destroying so many.

It would seem that part of the problem will be that families with young and teenage children are among those most absent from our churches today.

«Local churches of all sizes tend to forget to identify, equip, and celebrate «church mothers» who can — among other things — serve those younger in the faith in tangible, relational ways,» she said.

Totus Tuus captures in microcosm the contagious renewal that is occurring from the ground up among the youngest generation of American Catholics, and it bodes extremely well for the future of the Church on these shores.

Serving in Paris, France, she is among the 52,000 Mormon missionaries - most of them young adults; the others retired couples - who are knocking on doors and speaking 107 different languages in 180 countries, according to Lyman Kirkland, a church spokesman.

«We've seen an increase in membership among younger clergy and younger ordinands and a lot of them, myself included, don't come from a church background,» he added.

For instance, among so - called exclusive Baptists where a conversion experience is required to become a church member, young people can be expected to, have a conversion experience.

The dissatisfaction of the students with the WSCF Conference on the World Mission of the Church in Strasburg in 1960 was an indication of the mood among young Christian people.

At the same time, the mainline churches were facing their own crisis involving declining membership (especially among younger generations), clergy shortages, and deep polarization over issues such as human sexuality.

Whether among the secularized masses of industrial societies, the emerging new ideologies around which societies are organized, the resurging religions which people embrace, the movements of workers and political refugees, the people's search for liberation and justice, the uncertain pilgrimage of the younger generation into a future both full of promise and overshadowed by nuclear confrontation - the Church is called to be present and to articulate the meaning of God's love in Jesus Christ for every person and for every situation.

Far more serious than any of the startling events of the decade was the massive erosion of the legitimacy of American institutions — business, government, education, the churches, the family — that set in, particularly among young people, and that continues, if public opinion polls are to be believed, in the 1970s even when overt protest has become less frequent.

Among them are many young church leaders.

Among the 700,000 or so Dreamers are plenty of young church leaders, students at Christian colleges, and even members of World Relief's own staff.

To be «spiritual» is in these days, especially among the young, whereas to belong to the church is somewhere between «slightly embarrassing» and «out of the question altogether.»

Among the younger generation who struggle with the idea of Jesus being the unique path of salvation, it is easy to find an «out» here from actually engaging in traditional gospel sharing... after all those on the cutting edge say «the church» needs to talk less and do more... «if necessary use words».

That was the question Ken Myers posed as we talked recently about Christian hip - hop artists Lecrae, Shai Linne, Trip Lee, and others (especially popular among the «young, restless, Reformed» wing of the church).

In Turkey the Church has not disappeared, and a movement, small numerically but earnest, has set in among some of the younger Turks, which, while disavowing the designation of Christian, is intensely loyal to Jesus.

The next day, the young Sayat - Nova places the religious texts on the church roof to air - dry, laying among them with arms outstretched as if hoping that the wind rippling the books» pages might carry some of their knowledge into him.