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"church congregation" refers to a group of people who regularly come together to worship and pray in a church. It is the community of believers who attend services and participate in religious activities together.
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Although someone usually gets blamed whenever a marriage fails, suing your
local church congregation for your divorce is definitely an unusual circumstance.
And while some evangelicals retain a belief that scripture prohibits women from either teaching or
leading church congregations, most no longer object.
«I figured a way out, a way to get rid of all the lesbians and queers, but I couldn't get it past the Congress,» Pastor Charles L. Worley can be seen telling his Providence Road
Baptist Church congregation in the video, which had more than 250,000 YouTube views by Tuesday.
Cabrera's «war for our children» led him to lead a 2012 march over the Brooklyn Bridge demanding that the Department of Education end its policy barring
church congregations from meeting in public schools.
He startles a plain vanilla
church congregation into silence, and rips the insurance lobby: «The reason the healthcare industry is so profitable is they get 24 cents of every dollar.»
Perhaps Father Rohr's book will spark discussions
among church congregations and elsewhere that lead to positive changes in how we try to meet the needs of others, especially the elderly.
It aims to counter the rise of Christian fundamentalism by means of holding conferences and seminars that will
bring church congregations up to date with biblical scholarship.
Many church congregations make their first contact with practicing Buddhists when they sponsor refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia.
and unless you're a Christian, it might not make sense to understand
why church congregations are so «close - minded» on changing their stance on what is sin that has been ironed out for thousands of years.
On the other corner: a massive
Catholic church the congregation of which would litter their steps with cigarette butts after service, which me and a buddy would collect to smoke in a vacant lot nearby and once set it on fire lighting up.
Cabrera, who is a longtime foe of marriage equality and a leader in the effort that recently overturned the public schools» policy
against church congregations using their space for worship services, has for years worked with the Family Research Council, an organization condemned as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Copyright © 2016 * / A 12 - year - old girl who came out as a lesbian in front of her
Mormon church congregation in Utah was told to sit down halfway through a speech in which
The information from surveys and interviews was gleaned primarily from
within church congregations and may or may not reflect the attitudes of society in general.
These standardized statements serve as a shield, protecting politicians and policy makers from shouldering any of the blame for a system that allows for legal gun owners to open fire at a school, concert, and
church congregation — a system they help create.
How can you say that because Obama takes one stance that doesn't match Christian values,
the church congregation must vote for others?
In a new regular column Lizzie Lowrie writes on the ups and downs of planting
a church congregation in a Liverpool coffee shop More
An Oxford University study has found singing in groups like choirs and
church congregations can significantly... More
When
the church congregation, either individually, or as a corporate body, acts more like a FaceBook friend, than a physically present flash and blood person, that dimension is lost.
Savage told
his church congregation that he had sinned and had never tried to hide the assault from church leaders, according to The New York Times.
«since they» + «should they not» + «they are» + «why do they»... Again: do not forget that the church are us, not them... even if you're not enrolled on
a church congregation.
Two Sundays ago I found myself painfully aware of how no matter the church, no matter the speaker, when I am sitting in
a church congregation there is a deep, deep anger in my soul.
Perhaps because of the generational segregation that Powell observes, I just didn't feel this way about the rest of
my church congregation.
If we handed
a church congregation a copy of Greek Mythology and told them, «everything in here is literally true», they'd laugh you out of the room, and yet...
In a new regular column Lizzie Lowrie writes on the ups and downs of planting
a church congregation in a Liverpool coffee shop
An A student, beloved by
his church congregation, Nathan eluded tacklers like an avatar in a video game.
As long as there is one person of color in
a church congregation, it is not segregated, and thus there are many many thousands of churches in America that are not segregated (here in Atlanta, I don't know of any).
Church congregation has done an excellent job in helping teens better understand their own sexuality and sexual morality
Theological discourse has become the language of elites, with little relevance either for
church congregations or for the broader secularized society.
Last I heard,
the church congregation had been amalgamated with somewhere else, and the church building had become a fine music venue.
My question is how can you trust some one who can not make a decision without praying and asking God, Jesus and probably a priest in confession (IF your are Catholic, which Newt now claims to be) and maybe half
a church congregation for the anwer?
However Czeslaw and his isters also kept the secret for two years, from their friends, teachers, schoolmates and
church congregation, despite the anti-Semitic brainwashing they received in school.
The growing indispensability of mass media for reaching electorates, political parties,
church congregations, the entire youth population and even widely dispersed intellectuals, has forced not only politicians but educators, clergy, and scientists to join merchants in adapting their messages to fit the exigencies of the media system.
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