Sentences with phrase «churches which»

I'm sure there are also filthy things occurred in other churches which involve the pastor and congragation ministries (pedophiles and thief alike).

In addition, it must be observed that all the Churches which reject universal tradition as a rule of truth in the interpretation of the scriptures and insist on their own particular tradition as sole criterion of truth, do not adopt a credible point of view.

But it is important to see that even those churches which pride themselves on not having so - called «man - made creeds» have a tradition for interpreting the Bible.

By liberal Protestantism we mean those churches which stress the historical approach to the Bible and hence its spiritual rather than literal inspiration, and find the source of Christian authority not in any creedal statement but in God's total and progressive revelation of himself in nature, history, human experience, and supremely in Jesus Christ.

By the fundamentalist Protestant type we mean those churches which hold to the verbal inspiration and hence the literal inerrancy of the Bible, and which defend as of vital importance certain creedal dogmas, notably the virgin birth, the blood atonement, the physical resurrection of Christ, and his visible second coming.

By Uppsala I mean, of course, the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches which is to be held in Uppsala, Sweden in July 1968.

In view of this analysis, it is not surprising that Humanism has not become the challenger of the churches which it promised to be during the short period of its flourishing a few years ago.

A significant opportunity awaits those churches which develop a cooperative plan to provide educational materials on these narrowcast media.

These ministers were relating with disturbed persons in churches which were stable in membership, with regular worship and a moderate to full program each week.

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

To be sure, these missionaries and reforms were from churches which in Europe were subject to the absolutist states of the period.

In Asia and North Africa it was represented by static or dwindling remnants of churches which were encircled and being slowly stifled by a politically dominant Islam or, in South India, by the prevailing Hinduism.

Churches which enjoy tax exempt status means they're being subsidized by the government - separation of church and state?

Several churches which now have a lively variety of growth groups did precisely this.

A few posts ago, I complained that the typical «church planter profile» is based only on the big and successful churches which have «Type A» personalities at the helm.

In the first century of the church independent local churches which were scattered around the Mediterranean communicated with one another as best they could by ship, runner, word of mouth — without a post office or email!

There are many so - called Christian «spirits» now at work in our churches which deny that «Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.»

But even with my limited knowledge, and without even doing a Google search, I can guarantee that there are many Christians and churches which condemn the celebration of Kwanzaa.

It is not the openness of this invitation, it is the restrictive measures of the churches which have to be justified before the face of the crucified Jesus.

Jerusalem remained the headquarters of the Church as a whole, and the authority of its leaders seems to have been accepted without question by the new churches which had been established outside Palestine.

This is true even in the churches which give little or no emphasis to baptism, the Lord's Supper, or the other five sacraments recognized in Catholicism: confirmation, penance, marriage, extreme unction, and, for priests, ordination.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

The churches which were set up by Paul and his companions on a series of lengthy journeys from Antioch, and which extended the range of Christianity throughout southern Asia Minor and Greece, were to be, some of them from their foundation, predominantly Gentile.

Even the most highly organized churches which insist on the importance of «legitimate» orders recognize with the Church of England that» «there always remains the power of God to give to the Church prophets, evangelists and teachers apart from the succession,» and even the most spiritualistic groups will elect certain men to interpret the sense of meetings in which anyone moved by the spirit is allowed to speak.

But this exhaustion infects all parties and sects, including mainline churches which pride themselves on their open - mindedness.

Few things are more important in our civilization than churches which worthily and intelligently will fulfill this inner function of religion, which will beget and develop in men a controlling sense of life's sanctities.

The result in Europe has been a mass exodus from the traditional churches which cling to the orthodox views, while in America there has arisen a much stronger fundamentalism.

Churches which once distributed food, water or medicine now peer beyond symptoms to underlying ecological insufficiency.

We have disavowed a view of the relation between the colleges and the churches which would permit viewing them as agencies of the church in preference for a covenant relationship in which each is recognized to have its own function but a common commitment and point of view on crucial issues.

Furthermore, such mission is also not sensitive to those churches which have worked out a legitimate and relevant form of mission in their own countries.

Most of them welcomed this change not only as a time of liberation for the churches which they had founded and had come of age, but also as a liberation for themselves.

So within the circle of churches which we serve, we seek to encourage mutuality.

This was brought sharply into the foreground by the discussions of the main theme of the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches which met in Evanston, Illinois, in 1954.

Here are some illustrative projects from local churches which suggest the wide range of possibilities.

At his root Jesus is a rebel who fought against any who claimed power, over turned tables, and there are too many mega churches which openly tell followers that following mammon is compatible with christianity.

Now that all the major U.S. churches which follow a lectionary are using basically the same one, we can expect that the contributions from biblical studies will continue to increase.

How would you encourage people who are in churches which are not really involved in their communities?

Recent decades have given rise to many highly influential «teaching» churches which promise to help churches develop a vision.

Aside from the house churches which were talked about and held up as models by the speakers, all the house church members I personally talked to had not seen a single «convert» in their house church during the past year.

Regretably nealry all churches which emerged through the Reformation have turned apostate today.

The Rt Rev Tim Thornton, a trustee of the Feeding Britain charity, said the survey had confirmed churches which have helped people who are struggling are «responding to a widespread and pressing need and that food poverty extends far beyond food bank use alone».

Many of today's churches, churches which are a far cry from anything envisioned in the New Testament, n - e-e-d money, lots of it to keep afloat.

The essay was a reply to the measures already taken by the Nazis against Jews, particularly the introduction of an «Aryan paragraph» in the churches which barred non-Aryans from the ministry, religious teaching and theological faculties.

I steer well clear of churches which talk about leadership in terms of authority.

And because we live, and want to live, in a worldwide Church, we must bear with a certain self - criticism that which is inevitable if the Church is not to disintegrate into particular Churches which no longer have a common life.

It is of note that those churches which are now growing the fastest are those which eschew institutional trappings, and which can therefore at least present the impression that they are less likely to have an institutional moribundity and self - interest.

Of course, there are some churches which I could not join — they would not have me!

Although we have focused on Jesus» divine status, for many people their experience of him as Saviour is more significant The World Council of Churches in its basis, which has already been mentioned, says it is a «fellowship of Churches which accept our Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour».

The churches which have been active in family counseling have produced family education programs on a large scale; often these are based on clinical experience obtained in the counseling centers, thus relating to real problems in the lives of people.

Indeed churches which fail in this are a disgrace.