Sentences with phrase «churches organized efforts»
Large numbers of Christian churches organized efforts to register conservatives to vote him out of office.
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This is why Paul organized a financial relief effort for the Jerusalem church among the Gentile churches he had established.
Many thousands of citizens, including many Christians, have been working for social justice for years — through nonprofit organizations, community organizing efforts, and justice - oriented churches.
In this respect the report can not be «objective» but must remain a somewhat personal effort to clarify and organize ideas about Church, ministry and theological education that seem to be «in the air» or that seem to be developing in «the climate of opinion.»
Even in the absence of organized effort by church leaders there are enormously important things which any layman can do to discover, to act upon, and to communicate the gospel.
Beginning in 1976, Weyrich, Phillips and Morton Blackwell, who organizes young men and teaches them how to be political activists — Ralph Reed is one of his graduates — launched a concentrated effort to involve conservative churches in their cause.
To begin, churches should encourage their member families to prepare, both for their own well being, and so they will be better able to help others, whether in organized church efforts or in their neighborhoods.
They were determined that the church support the efforts of the exploited to organize and secure decent conditions.
In recent years the clergy have found their place in the greater security of a welfare society, as shown by the provision of Pension Funds for the clergy (such as the efficient Church Pension Fund in America, organized in 1917) in lieu of earlier efforts to relieve their distressed widows and orphans.