Sentences with phrase «church bodies whether»

Looking back on the sorry record of many Western Christians during the cold war, Tokes concludes, «I want to ask the international church bodies whether the time has not come to repent and ask for forgiveness.»

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If the issues involved in the seminary struggle — how to read the Bible and how to locate authority within the church — continue to trouble church bodies, we do well to consider carefully whether it can be of any benefit to tackle them via the news conference.

For some, it is the «mission of the church,» whether they consider that to be helping people, reaching people for Christ, showing love, or even more mercenary goals like building a bigger building or increasing bodies in pews.

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

Whether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of thWhether we are speaking of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body of principles which informed the daily work of increasingly larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of thwhether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form of institutional chaplaincies or church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles of the poor.

This is the case regardless of whether one sees the Catholic Church (or Orthodox churches) as the most complete visible expression of the Body of Christ and all other forms as «lesser,» or whether one defines the Body of Christ in terms of the invisible communion with no visible form fully expressing that bBody of Christ and all other forms as «lesser,» or whether one defines the Body of Christ in terms of the invisible communion with no visible form fully expressing that bBody of Christ in terms of the invisible communion with no visible form fully expressing that bodybody.

Is the church really the Body of Christ — that is, His hands, His feet, and His priorities (whether in an instituional setting or not)?

And whatever «form» of church one attends (small group, house, small local body, mega-church) has some form of leadership (some good, some not - sThe biblical issue isn't, in my opinion, about whether women can teach in a church — it is the issue of qualifications for elders.

The document was sent to all member churches, asking them «to prepare an official response to this text at the highest appropriate level of authority, whether it be a council, synod, conference, assembly or other body.»

Even in Taprobane [Ceylon] an island in further India, where the Indian sea is, there is a Church of Christians, with clergy and a body of believers, but I know not whether there be any Christians in the parts beyond it.

So when a local gathering of believers is trying to decide whether or not they are accomplishing God's will for the church in their community, they must not look at the numbers of bodies who sit a pew, the amount of money collected in the offering, or the square feet of the building in which these things take place.

The moment we shift our focus from «me» to «Him» (truly), and serving other (sincerely) rather than fixating on imperfections of an «imperfect body» for example, whether that be in or outside of the «church» we receive a freedom and peace which no one can touch.

Our assembly as the Body of Christ is primarily a spiritual gathering into Christ, and so whether we gather in large groups or small, we can still know that we are assembled with all other saints around the world and throughout time (For more on this understanding of church, see my book, Skeleton Chchurch, see my book, Skeleton ChurchChurch).

The Minority Chief Whip also asked the President to come clean on how much control government intends to give to the religious bodies, since it was not clear whether government will fully handover the such schools to the churches or mosques.