Sentences with phrase «church practices back»

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Were the Catholic Church to change its teaching and practice, they say, the dam holding back the libidinous urgencies of a licentious culture would collapse completely.

Every day millions of faithful souls in monasteries and back pews and small apartments exercise the priesthood of all believers in prayer practices that bring life to the church as the beating heart brings blood to the body.

By practicing compassionate, active listening, we help create a safe path back to renewed connection with God and the church.

Nowadays many churches are open all day; it would be a wise plan for the rest of us to adopt the common practice of Roman Catholics and drop in at a church on the way to work or coming back from work.

Facing East is certainly not an innovation, since, until the Second Vatican Council, it was the universal Catholic practice for at least fifteen hundred years, with some scholars contending that it goes back to the very beginnings of the Church.

It would be nice to go back and sit in on the conversations between Constantine and church leaders about why they did what they did to adopt certain practices and customs.

Luke had buried them back in his Gospel, and once he had finished copying out the end of Q (at Luke 22:30), he rather explicitly said that the idyllic, unreal world of Jesus has been put behind us, for we must now come to grips with reality, buy a sword, become the church militant, and replace the kind of mission Jesus had advocated and practiced with one like the missionary journeys of Paul.

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion... More

I could look back in history and see that major figures in church history that caused the greatest change for the good in the church practiced expository preaching.

Your study (see url a couple of comments back) of the early church and the practices and beliefs pertaining to commumion was very well done an opened my eyes to some things I had not thought of previously.

Even after a season of my life when I walked far away from our traditions, gathering the greater story of our Church and history to myself, I now find myself corkscrewing back over and over again to the teachings of my childhood, the songs, the practices.

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion Therapy aimed at altering sexual orientation.

So, go back to being a church and be left alone to practice religion as you desire or remain in the business world and learn to follow the laws that protect employees.

The Church of England's General Synod has backed a motion calling for a ban on the practice of Conversion Therapy aimed at altering sexual orientation... More

Jeremy asks us to consider what did the early Christians believe and practice back before the above people put their finger prints on the churches belief systems.

Linguistically the word evangelical is rooted in the Greek word evangelion and refers to those who preach and practice the good news; historically the word refers to those renewing groups in the church which from time to time have called the church back to the evangel; theologically it refers to a commitment to classical theology as expressed in the Apostles» Creed; and sociologically the word is used of various contemporary groupings of culturally conditioned evangelicals (i.e., fundamentalist evangelicals, Reformed evangelicals, Anabaptist evangelicals, conservative evangelicals).

The practice of gauging wind direction dates as far back as ancient Greece, and decorative weathervanes were common on churches in medieval Europe.