Most of the very
conservative churches still use the King James version and it is this version which is distributed in such vast numbers by the British and American Bible Societies.
Not exact matches
Honestly, I had to drop so much doctrinal baggage to find the truth behind most of what I was taught in
Conservative churches (and I am
still casting off theologies that were biased).
Despite these features of
conservative Methodism, others
still fear it as a source of division in the
church, and perhaps understandably so.
For many «communion
conservatives» who
still remain within the Episcopal
Church, this will amount to a deep crisis of conscience, since in effect their church seems bent upon forcing them to choose between the Anglican communion and the Episcopal C
Church, this will amount to a deep crisis of conscience, since in effect their
church seems bent upon forcing them to choose between the Anglican communion and the Episcopal C
church seems bent upon forcing them to choose between the Anglican communion and the Episcopal
ChurchChurch.
Also, sad to see that the «
conservative - liberal» divide is
still so present in the
church.
With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the
Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole,
still tempted to defend old
conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.
Some Germans
still see themselves as East German or West German, others see themselves as liberal or
conservative, but the
church, he says, should be middle ground.
It is unlikely that either
churches that are very
conservative and thoroughly displeased with the directions their denominations are taking, or
churches that are radical «do - it - ourselvers» and think the national bodies are
still in the Middle Ages, will want to buy into the systems, though they could use much of what will be developed.
However much the oldline
churches can be faulted when evaluated according to Cobb's signs of vitality, those
churches still come off better than
churches of the new
conservative religious center.
His calls for changes may be radical from the highly
conservative and exclusionary perspective of the
Church as it is now but in comparison to the rest of the planet he's
still far, far behind.
Churches in the more
conservative Protestant traditions attract new members and are growing because they
still support «the American way of life.»
It's pretty bad when one of the most
conservative Christian
Churches is
still too liberal for GOP / TEA.
The more
conservative churches are
still growing, riding the boom in both authoritarian and experiential religion that the mainliners have not quite known how to exploit.
You can see that after 1996 the turnout has been quite low on average, so the referendum of 2005 is not a significant outlier, but I
still remember a vast and hard campaign from
conservatives (and especially the
church) that were calling for abstentionism.