Sentences with phrase «challenge church practices»

The signers pledged to offer one another a network of mutual support» as they celebrate instances of faithfulness in their various churches and challenge church practices that «presume a smooth fit between killing and discipleship.»

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In the last church I went you when a leader claimed she was being prophetic and doing what God does, I challenged her about being insulting, practicing false prophecy and using God's name in vain in her sexist approach.

The challenge to the church is to tap its tradition for those practices that will enable people to move beyond the utilitarian ethic of our individualistic,

Moreover, achieving this may well challenge the churches of the Reformation, and particularly the Church of England, to seek a renewal of their own faith and practice in parallel with the Catholic Church's Year of Faith.

Maybe this is overstating the case, but it really does seem that in most churches, you can question and challenge almost anything, except the practices of baptism and communion.

Many of the challenges to the instruction, however, reflect a continuing decline in the quality of dissimulation practiced by those who reject the magisterial teaching of the Church.

I think I just pissed off a church leader by challenging him to practice what he is preaching about self - sacrifice and kindness.

Particularly for the churches in India where the Christians often fail to practice what they preach, the martyrdom of Polycarp is a great challenge for us.

Still they realize that members of other Christian churches challenge the sufficiency, or even the rectitude, of their teaching and practice.

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

The ecumenical conversations between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distinguished three contemporary Reformed attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church: of those who remain unconvinced that the Catholic Church has actually dealt with the fundamental issues that divided Rome and the Reformation, those who «have not been challenged or encouraged to reconsider their traditional stance» and remain «largely untouched by the ecumenical exchanges of recent times,» and those who have engaged «in a fresh constructive and critical evaluation both of the contemporary teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church and of the classical controverted issues.»

It is the extension of it in India in the idea and practice of the churches in the Indian village and city that challenged absolutising the traditional casteist, sexist and other structures of Indian society as divinely ordained.

T.M.Philip's essay in it on «A History of Baptismal Practices and Theologies» points to a wide variety of practice and understanding that existed in the churches from NT times and says that the historical perspective would help us «to maintain a certain flexibility and openness in the light of the new questions and challenges presented by our present historical situation».

The growth of paid - time religious television and its many affiliated religious services, industries, and practices presents a radical challenge to established ideas about the nature of the Christian church.

The ecclesiastical trial of Father William Wendt in Washington, D.C., over the issue of women's orders symbolized that once the nature of authority is challenged, even in church governance, the very basis of traditional Christian thought and practice crumbles.

Before change in sexual behavior and family structure challenged the moral commitments of «the family pew,» anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner had observed that beliefs and practices in the church and in the family were so intertwined that, «Should the present form of the family disappear, the Christian church would necessarily undergo revolutionary changes.

The Fuller Youth Institute, a research institute in California that equips leaders in the church with best practices, conducted research to uncover what the biggest challenges facing the church in this area are.

Martin Luther is largely credited with starting the Protestant Reformation in 1517 with The 95 Theses, his work challenging the Catholic Church's practice of selling indulgences.

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