Sentences with phrase «as mainline denominations»

And they scored almost as high as mainline denominations in service.

Some denominations adopted guidelines (like the Methodists), but most of those movements declined as mainline denominations moved leftward theologically.

The charismatics tended to be the evangelicals and as the mainline denominations became more progressive theologically, the charismatics began to be increasingly uncomfortable.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

Not exact matches

And mainline denominations teach this as well, so who is this «some» that thinks the only way to know God is through the church?

As a former evangelical, I put some faith in the fact that I was in a church that was part of a mainline, liberal denomination.

As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same - sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton's official and long - held positions.

In what is becoming something of a pig pile on the GOP from the Christian Left, more than two dozen bishops from mainline Protestant denominations sent a letter to Congress today denouncing proposed Republican budget cuts as «morally indefensible.»

The study pointed out that «none» needn't necessarily mean «atheist» as much as it implies a dissatisfaction with mainline denominations.

I think every mainline denomination has a [usually] minority movement that stands against the direction the denomination as a whole is taking.

Instead, I believe as Karl Barth and the majority of the mainline denominations and current scholarship believe that «The Bible is not letter by letter word of God but contains the word of God.»

Certainly, mainline Christianity's preoccupation with social affairs as a substitute for religious experience has resulted in a general decline of «standard - brand» denominations.

Opinion polls show that these members are as liberal on economic issues as members of mainline denominations, even when social class and race are taken into account.

For Douthat, however, our present identity as a «nation of heretics» marks a departure from earlier periods, in particular the post «World War II era of America's Greatest Generation, when Roman Catholic orthodoxy and the mainline Protestant denominations ruled the culture in ways that were truly Christian and faithful.

When the major networks refused to sell them time, preferring instead to donate it to representatives of mainline denominations and ecumenical organizations, independent broadcasters bought time on local stations, laying the groundwork for what later came to be known as the electronic church.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Though he has his doubts about whether Emergent can «work» in the structures of a denomination — he says he was never tempted by the «golden handcuffs» of church - plant funding — he values interaction with mainline pastors such as Cox Johnson.

Different Christian denominations were at home in each party as well: Catholics and Southern Baptists supported the Democrats, and northern mainline and evangelical Protestants the Republicans.

Its church hierarchies are often housed in organizations such as Focus on the Family and independent congregations instead of in denominations, and their relationship with government is more subtle and more private then that of mainline denominations.

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

As far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil WaAs far as I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil Waas I know, President Obama is still a member of the United Church of Christ — a progressive, mostly white, mainline Protestant Christian denomination with a rich American history that includes, among many others, the Pilgrims and Congregationalists of New England and many African - American churches, schools and colleges established in the south after the Civil War.

Conversely, the worship of mainline white American denominations looks increasingly exceptional, as do these groups» customary approaches to biblical authority.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

Clearly, we must not take for granted that the Western notion of «civil society,» as it developed largely in Britain and America from the seventeenth century onward with the close collaboration of the forebears of today's «mainline «protestant denominations, has answers for a contemporary global society.

Therefore, so far as the mainline churches are concerned, if they ca n`t beat «em, they should n`t join «em, because, fortunately, the mainline denominations have an alternative which is unique, nationwide and highly biblical: the local church.

As I contemplate the church today, I would judge it to be an institution in very serious trouble; every mainline denomination is faced with the same agonies of declining membership.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

A minister of a mainline Protestant denomination, newly hired as a chaplain of a denominational college, met with a committee of the regional judicatory within whose bounds he would be working.

Interesting how this issue has come up for us as a large mainline denomination has asked our involvement.

It may be Mormonism has moved closer to Christian tenets or perhaps mainline Christian denominations have gotten looser on what they regard as Christian [and a lot of good that's done their membership numbers].

In the U.S. some two dozen «mainline» national denominations — the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Church as well as the Roman Catholic Church — provide programs ranging from 30 - second spots to half - hour programs 52 weeks a year.

But, as we shall see in later chapters, the mainline denominations have been declining.

It wasn't, on the face of it, all that much, and not as rhetorically strong as resolutions adopted by the mainline denominations years ago.

Their book may not turn card - carrying members of mainline denominations into Evangelicals, but it might begin to make them «wise as serpents.»

As a member of one of the so - called Mainline denominations and a nondispensationalist Evangelical, I feel impelled to respond.