Sentences with phrase «church practice actually»

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And I also assume you are not aware that the practice of polygamy has been banned from the faith and actually will get a person excommunicated from the Church since the 1800s.

While 80 % + Americans self - identify as Christians, many fewer actually attend church or practice their faith in any significant way.

Any other practice breaks the unity of the church, and the lack of water baptism is actually a tradition of omission, thus not showing a greater understanding of faith, but rather a lack of reverence for the will and intention of Jesus himself.

If in relatively normal circumstances there is too great a gap between the theoretical morality of the Church and what is actually practiced even by good Catholics, the Church will have to ask herself whether she has really done all that was necessary as far as the working out of her doctrine in pastoral practice is concerned.

For the church that means transforming the caste system of male clerical hierarchy to partnership in ministry, and putting Galatians 3:28 — as well as the stance of the American Catholic bishops that «women should be in decision - making roles» — actually into practice.

* Many of those practices, we believe, actually hinder the church from being what God designed her to be and how she should function.

It sounds like you attend a church that actually practices the Golden Rule.

Then, when we actually moved to the South, we experienced the cognitive dissonance of being assumed to be part of the irresistible evangelical mainstream while practicing a form of Baptist life that eventually got our church kicked out of the denomination.

But realistically, there are many who actually attend one church on Sundays, even at a membership level and yet still practice the pendulum swing, unintentionality and relational avoidance.

Best of all, it is a book by people who actually practice «simple church.»

Actually, Mormon doctrine says the original church and its practices such as baptism by immersion (as Christ did) was lost during the dark ages which made a «restoration» necessary.

It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.

This way of speaking about scripture is rooted in the spiritual practices of the liturgical churches, Childs observes, not «the way the Bible actually functions within the church» — apparently meaning, in this case, the nonliturgical churches.

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.»

Get plugged in at your church, join a sports league or actually attempt the ancient and forgotten practice of meeting your neighbors.

According to the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia, Simons was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest at Utrecht in 1524, but quickly began to question some of the church's beliefs and practices when, «while he was administering the Mass he began to doubt whether the bread and the wine were actually being changed into the flesh and blood of Christ.»