Sentences with phrase «church body»

Well today Christian counseling services are in the mainstream of church body life.

Other church bodies have their own problems deciding who speaks for their church.

Very few object to denominations speaking out on public issues, and most (80 per cent) agree with most of their own church body's positions in this field.

Local stations often acted similarly, producing religious programs in association with local church bodies or representative councils.

But among American church bodies at least, the relational view is employed in a whole variety of statements.

I know of no current church body, which keeps the true doctrine.

No one is going to force church bodies that believe same gender love is immoral to perform same gender marriages.

Perhaps that is true also of a member or church body also.

People from one denomination do not care much about what goes on in another, and as a result, news of church bodies rarely receives coverage.

And while Christian counselors don't necessarily need an endorsement by their denomination to conduct counseling or therapy, pastoral counselors must be endorsed by their respective church bodies before becoming certified pastoral counselors.

Before any local church body can act in this way, you must first choose to live this way.

If you think the largest Lutheran church body in the world is in Europe, think again.

Our 12 year old son wanted to be baptized for the first time and since we had all been baptized in different churches, we were re-confirming our faith in the saving power of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and identifying with our local church body as a family — it was amazing!

One practical implication for church bodies wanting to plant congregations is that they need to sow three or four seeds in the hope that one will grow.

It is also one of the fastest - growing Lutheran church bodies in the world; in 2016, they counted about 4 million members, and they are opening a new congregation every week.

Both Concordia Seminary and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod had cultivated a kind of family atmosphere, characteristic perhaps of relatively small church bodies with ethnic origins.

On the international scene, a large number of statements issued by Protestant church bodies in Latin America, Europe and Africa reflect a relational anthropology.

An increasing number of official church bodies, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, have made public statements of their remorse about Christian mistreatment of Jews and Judaism.

ELCA Lutheranism might be the least theologically liberal component of the mainline, but one feature distinguishes this new church body from its peers and sets it somewhat to the left of them.

The concern of the international church bodies went beyond the status of civil liberties in Germany.

Bread for the World, a collective Christian voice against hunger, is working with a coalition of Christian church bodies and other organizations to mobilize people of faith to push for farm bill reform.

He is treating this loose confederation of national Church bodies less like what it is, and more like a snotty country club.

At this point sharp divergences appear, for while church bodies have repeatedly opposed universal military training, some Christians favor it, and while many deplore the size of our military budget as compared with other peacetime services, there are those who would think it folly to lessen it.

It is the only way to ensure that you are sticking to the unique call God has for your particular church body.

That said, the number of church bodies interested in joining the ILC is growing.

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.

The powerful Catholic Church body that handles such allegations has been working on updating the 2001 rules «for some time,» the Vatican said.

Let's use the Catholic church to disband the whole church body.

The Presbyterians were to develop in strength until at the time of the Revolution they and the Congregationalists formed the two most important Church bodies in the colonies.

A number of organic unions took place between Church bodies with similar background.

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.

ZION with man, Jesus» Wife = His Reality with God added to mans conscience, (RIB of ADAM = reality in brain) and bride is the Pure, righteous, undefiled immortal eternal church body of Living Christ Bodies, CHILDREN OF ZION, CHILDREN OF GOD!

I'm glad to see that it's finally being talked about openly instead of whispered about by overworked and undervalued church members who are having difficulty separating their view of a loving God with a hateful church body.

Within a single generation, his movement had subdivided into several distinct and often mutually hostile church bodies» déj vu to anyone familiar with the history of Presbyterians in Scotland, Lutherans in America, Reformed churches in the Netherlands, Anglicans in Africa, and Baptists almost anywhere.

Despite the practical resistance to the civil rights struggle on the part of numerous Protestant congregations, especially in the South, most national and regional church bodies were supportive of the extension of equal rights in this way.

LCC and the LCMS participate in regular dialogue with the young North American Lutheran Church, with the three church bodies issuing a joint statement on Scripture in 2016.

The PGI called for support from world church bodies and the United Nations, and declared that the attacks were intended to eradicate «the presence of Christians and the church...

The Unitarian Universalist church body's Web site upholds a belief that «personal experience, conscience and reason should be the final authorities in religion.

It would be important that this recognition be achieved as an act of the council, not as a series of acts of recognition of the various separated church bodies.

The resulting council «in each place» would be commissioned to carry out, as its first formal act, a rite ensuring full mutual recognition of ministries, and therefore of sacraments, in the participating church bodies.

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.»

Within the United States this same drive toward mutual understanding and unity expressed itself in a series of organic unions and finally in a great federation of co-operating Church bodies.

However, today the major church bodies, with few exceptions, have simply caved in to the wider culture on sex and life issues.