Sentences with phrase «as the church faces»

Different parts of the biblical record take on relevance and importance as the church faces different situations.

As the church faced the cultural upheavals at the turn of the sixteenth century, the response was to attempt to preserve the established structures and to put a damper on creative initiative.

As the Church faced new problems, it continued to use the literature from its earliest members and eventually made a normative selection called the New Testament.

As the church faces another critical moment in its complex history of self - reform, its members therefore seek greater unity through open communication — through listening and speaking to one another in mutual respect and without fear of reprisal.

Although in the early pronouncements on mission a great deal of stress is placed on direct evangelism, a broader framework for interpreting mission is discernible as the church faced new challenges.

Not exact matches

The New York Times cited anonymous sources involved with The Birth of a Nation as saying that Fox Searchlight does not plan to change course on its promotion of the film, which includes plans to have Parker tour U.S. universities and churches as the public face of the movie.

But Christian imagination has little difficulty imagining the Church as the young, poorly armed David, facing the world's Goliaths.

As Catholics become more and more concerned with their personal identity, the ideals and morals of the Universal Church begin to disintegrate when faced with the «subjectivism, relativism, emotivism, and nihilism so much in fashion in Western democracies today.»

She, like the church as a whole, is frustrated with the realities facing the church.

Schickel's work» represented here by 175 full - color photographs» brings us face - to - face with the concerns of our own culture war, especially as it is manifested in clashes between traditionalists and liberals in the Church over the past three decades.

5oo, ooo priests for 1.2 billion Catholics - There is the answer to why the abusing priests were tolerated.The conclave elected exactly who they wanted to be Pope - Someone who would not rock the boat.I believe Pope Benedict was advised to retire in light of the Federal indictment pending so this would not involve a standing Pope and the possiblity of him being found guilty.I further think this new election of Pope will allow the Church to change it's stance on the very controvertial issues the Church is facing ie.female priests being one, the decisions appearing more acceptable coming from a new head as opposed to reversed stance of standing Pope.This decision to retire, in the Churchs» view I believe is damage control and not neccessarily Pope Benedict's desire.If looked at for what it is - A very slick maneuver indeed.

As the church in Africa faces these and other significant issues, it does so as a robust communitAs the church in Africa faces these and other significant issues, it does so as a robust communitas a robust community.

Neither of us ever thought we would face such difficulty finding a church where we felt welcome as an interracial couple.

I watched the tension flee from their faces as I described what amounted to the least common denominator of church involvement — the kind of behavior in God's people to which I had accommodated myself years earlier.

As the curtain rises on Election Year 2012, the Catholic Church in the United States finds itself undergoing historic changes that indicate that the future face of the Church on these shores will be much different from what it has been historically.

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As you read through these seven dangers that could be facing your church, I hope you are challenged but not disheartened.

But that is quite different from saying that Christianity as such faces extinction in the region, or that the church might cease to exist.

The challenge that faces all business, including churches, is that they have historical placed «sexual misconduct allegations» as petty offenses.

He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth....

in fact the attendance at church when necessary (family / friend events like weddings, christenings) is as much as I can face!

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

As the two Churches faced the tremendous need of the frontier they saw that they could best meet the challenge by co-operation and not by competition.

Some of the deepest divides within Christiandom regarding war, peace, politics, and Biblical interpretation were brought to light last night, and they served as sober reminder of both my own sin and the challenge facing the modern Church.

In many ways the challenges that Dominic faced in his days, eight hundred years ago, are very similar to those that the Church faces today, and therefore Dominic has a message for us now as to how we can meet those challenges.

He saw two main ways of kindling this ardour: one, as expressed eloquently in his Novo Millennio Ineunte, was through that contemplation of the face of Christ which the whole Church engaged in during the Millennium Jubilee.

So there is much to be worried about, especially with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived wisdom about how to respond to problems such as early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

There was usually no need for this however, except as a theological exercise, since the presence of a powerful and authoritative church and the possession of an infallible Bible were usually sufficient to re-awaken faith, if ever believers were faced with doubts.

Mention of the Donatists is a reminder of the agonizing choices that those who have faced persecution have had to make, as much in the twentieth century under Fascist and Communist regimes, as in the early centuries of the church.

Ye t the Council said nothing at all about facing the people, and its permission (not requirement) for use of the vernacular included the expectation that Latin and the musical treasury of the Church would also continue in use as a normal part of parish life.

These fears are not so different from the fear I see in the eyes of protestors carrying signs that depict President Obama as Hitler, the fear I see in the red faces of angry preachers urging their parishioners to «take America back for God,» the fear I detect in some of the books against emerging church, the fear I detect in some of the books in support of the emerging church, the fear I hear in the voices of both gays and the conservative evangelical activists who lobby against them when both sides consider for just a second the possibility that maybe they have it wrong.

How the church sees and offers itself as community, cultivates loyalty, and embodies authority in such a competitive culture is an important question to be faced.

As one who was a pastor during the «60s and early «70s I find it relatively easy to identify the issues faced by the church in those years which generated the most controversy and which from an institutional standpoint resulted in the greatest losses.

The results of this schism are with us still; it is not uncommon to find Baptist and «Christian» churches still facing one another across town squares and village lanes throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, just as New England Congregationalists divided into Old Lights and New Lights in the eighteenth century.

And the churches will find a way to separat the believers and by default give us atheists the upper hand as now we will face smaller groups lead by small voices instead of one group with one voice... the battle shall be epic!

Due to problems with allegedly excessive emotionalism as well as difficulties in transmitting charisma to a second generation, the Assemblies of God faced some of the same problems that caused the early church of the first centuries to abandon «signs and wonders.»

A third institutional challenge is the increasing competition the church faces as a purveyor of stories about the past.

I'd say uneducated, unsuccessful bitter racist white - trash fundamentalists (who are all about as sharp as a marble) are always the ones drawn to the KKK, John Birch, and fundamentalist «churches»... they're easy to amp up with hatred of a common enemy... which is what you see «churches» like Westboro Blabtist do... just look at the combination of zeal and hatred in their faces when they're on the news.

The prominent display of pictures and murals of a white Jesus in black churches is a slap in the face to those who understand Jesus as the liberator of oppressed blacks.

«In the face of those who no longer see the full, visible unity of the Church as an achievable goal,» he said to a delegation of Finnish Lutherans visiting Rome this past Friday, «we are invited not to give up our ecumenical efforts, faithful to that which the Lord Jesus asked of the Father, «that they may be one.

Lee follows the ancient church and describes the transfiguration as both an epiphany and an apocalyptic vision that «discloses the face of God and the hope of God's future.»

Since Monday, the cardinals have been uniting for what are known as General Congregations, a series of meetings in which they discuss the issues facing the church.

Critics such as James Burtchaell, whose book The Dying of the Light was reviewed in these pages by Ralph C. Wood (February 3 - 10), have simply not indicated realistically how, in the face of massive changes in society, church and human knowledge, church - related colleges could have maintained their traditional church - relatedness in all its 19th - or early 20th - century glory.

I share some images and I ask — how can we claim discipleship when we as the Church refuse to face up to the moral and ethical challenges that images, such as these described below, evoke?

If theology is to be renewed as a central part of church life, we must face the question of why it has been marginalized.

It could happen in actuality only as hundreds of thousands of members of oldline churches faced the criticisms, studied the responses, and internalized ways of remaining faithful with full integrity.

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

The Southern California megachurch Crystal Cathedral Ministries will enter bankruptcy as it faces lawsuit - filing creditors and a rapid decline in donations due to the recession, church officials announced Monday.

So the Churches in America faced many battles in beliefs as well as struggles in the face of new social and economic conditions.