If they took no Government funding, and were entirely privately
staffed by church members, they could be extensions and would probably be exempt, but that's not the case here.
This chapter is a great encouragement to all who have been cast out or
condemned by church members and church leaders of former churches.
I was
loved by my church members and also expected to give them the attention I would have given them if they were my fathers and mothers, daughters and sons.
Although the name of Christ is regularly used
by church members in the intensive, self - identifying acts of worship and evangelism, it seems now to be infrequently employed to fathom situations that challenge personal or corporate identity.
If you had, you'd realize that the «church» had, within a ridiculously short time frame, launched THOUSANDS of frivolous lawsuits against the IRS accusing them of all manner of supposed taxpayer fraud based on spying
committed by church members at public functions, conventions, you name it.
Just before the calendars ticked over from 1999 to 2000, one pastor was voted out of his job
by church members who complained that he refused to preach warnings about the coming world disaster called the Millennium Bug (remember that non-event?).
Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM), a network of Reformed church plants in 21 countries still dealing with the aftermath of an internal investigation of founder and president C. J. Mahaney's leadership, now faces allegations that its president and board chairman, among other leaders, covered up child sex
abuse by church members.
Throughout his resignation letter (which he posted here), Kensrue focused on what he sees as a lack of ability of the church elders to offer correction to higher church leadership, and the inability to address concerns
raised by church members and the media.
Our parsonage was
entered by church members while we were on vacation, who riffled through our closets, kitchen cabinets and moved things in the house around.
Repeatedly Hauerwas and his students have been
told by church members that they are drawn to a vision of discipleship at odds with a world bent on violence, but that they need some more accessible materials, if not an outright plan of action.
Questions have been
asked by church members and at least one other congregation, as is their right in the United Church.
It was, at most, speculative folk doctrine, completely at odds with what the church * does * formally teach: The condemnation of
racism by church members and leaders, in all forms, past and present.
If you listed every single good deed
done by church members, officials, clergy and the Catholc church as a whole, and measured it against the negatives, I believe the scales would tip toward te positive most aggressively.
Three female plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed Wednesday «allege a conspiracy spanning more than two decades to conceal sexual abuse
committed by church members» throughout the 1980s and 1990s, according to the Associated Press.
I know of several churches commonly referred to (
by church members!)