Sentences with phrase «church bodies composed»

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

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The Pope plans to hire a top global accounting firm to look over the Church's finances, and he's set up a «Working - Party for the Economic Future,» composed of some of the top Vatican bodies, in order to create a plan for the city - state to free up more money for helping the poor, according to Bloomberg.

The Church was the bride of Christ, and although it was composed of a people scattered abroad throughout the world, the Church was «one body with Christ through faith»; and this unity he loved to illustrate: «The husband confides all his secrets to his wife; she has become part of his body, and she bears the keys at her side.

The New Testament pictures the body of Christ as composed of many members, but in our state churches the body of Christ consists of one big mouth and many little ears.

Into this category fell Marsilius of Padua in the fourteenth century with his «modern'theory of the Church as a spiritual body in an entirely secular society, and Jan Huss (d. 1415), a Bohemian priest and university lecturer in Prague, one of the first to compose a treatise on The Church.

In The United Methodist Church, the Annual Conference is a governing body, often statewide, composed of approximately equal numbers of ministers and lay delegates.