Sentences with phrase «denominations where»

• Be sure to take enough cash with you (smaller denominations where possible) to last your entire stay in Greece, or at least several days.

The dualism of separate but equal roles associated with men and women in ministry is perpetuated in denominations where pastors are ordained, but Christian educators are consecrated.

In religions and denominations where there is usually only one church to go to the make up is probably more linked to the ethnic make up of the surrounding community.

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

This reflection takes the temperature of one who aspires to the description «Evangelical,» yet serves within a denomination where the word carries mixed associations.

Initially I was resistant because actually, many years ago, before we were at Life Church, my family were part of a denomination where most of the women had to have their head covered.

In the denomination where I grew up and served for so many years, there was never a woman pastor or deacon.

For example, I come from a denomination where women's organizations have been in the forefront of raising funds and dispatching workers on behalf of health and education.

Now, as female clergy in a denomination where there's grumbling about the «pinkaficaton» of the church, I find this cartoon wrenchingly ironic.

Not exact matches

But one where I realized that this work is more important to me than denomination.

OTOH, disregarding denominations, 33 % of the world population believes Christiantiy in one form or another, where Jesus was born of Mary, with God using the Holy Spirit to form him within her, and Jesus using the Holy Spirit later, dying on the cross, and then giving the Holy Spirit to the Apostles after ascending to heaven.

Thompson said it's something people can do regardless of their denomination, social status or income, and it puts the focus back where he says it should be, on God's word.

Many Atheist think of all Christians as «lockstep» where as you can barely get Christians to agree on everything within a single denomination, so explain how do you figure this grand Christian theocracy would come into being?

Not only are they in denominations that will not ordain them, they are in worship services where women will never be able to read scripture or preside at the table or, in some places, take the offering.

Approximately a year later the denomination moved the pastor to another church (where he has continued to thrive), because the first church could no longer pay his full salary.

, he has served the Mennonite denomination in both mission administration and overseas relief, as well as at Goshen Biblical Seminary, where he was professor from 1965 to 1984 and President from 1970 to 1973.

I doubt that now, but I do predict a greater self - consciousness of a Holiness bloc of denominations grouped under the CHA, where there is already very close cooperation in such areas as publishing and preparing Christian education materials.

That went on for some time with only minor hiccups such as happens whenever humans gather until at some point, unbeknownst to me, we seemed to have slipped into this point where we were expected to have an affinity for the denomination and thus automatically hold its leadership in high regard and limit our criticism of such.

Where does this leave the main - line denominations and their schools of theology?

Is there a point where breaking communion is appropriate (schism, I think, was not the correct word as you pointed out it is not even possible unless every misogynist denomination (I refuse to use the long C word) splits in two), and who has the authority to make that call?

Even where liturgy and theology do not seem to be providing any distinct denominational links, some congregations maintain their loyalty because their denomination helps them accomplish their mission.

Where you went to school, denomination or doctrinal affiliation you may share with a particular denomination or camp.

Looking with California eyes at the South and the Midwest, where these denominations continue to flourish, one sees there also the seeds of decay.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

Although the Congregational Union of England and Wales were the first to ordain a female minister, the denomination was not alone in giving women a platform to lead, preach and, where tradition allowed, administer sacraments.

Silverton Friends Church, for instance, (where my co-author John Pattison is a member) gathered a diverse group of its members and spent most of the past school year reading about the LGBT community and discussing how they would respond together to tensions about sexuality in their congregation and their denomination.

I have been to where Jehovah Witness worship, I have been to a Christian Church, Catholic Church, and have been to other local denominations in Florida.

The congregationalist structure of the denomination is such that it must at least tolerate islands of catholicity like Mr. Nuechterlein's Christ Church in Manhattan or Christ Church in York, Pennsylvania, where I serve.

Today, most charismatics are not in mainline denominations, though that is where it started and where such practices were mainstreamed.

Where a domesticated piety dominates the commitments of a denomination, the conservation of middle - class ideals can blind both leaders and people to the prominent concern for social justice found in the Bible.

Maybe it varies church to church or denomination to denomination or even by where you live.

Those were ideas made by man (just like the Talmud), Constantine to be specific, and adopted by men to the point where it was made doctrine in many denominations.

I do have to admit that very recently I spent some time away from home in a community where a particular denomination was very strong.

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

Let us imagine a (probable) near - future world in which Christian numbers are strongly concentrated in the global South, where the clergy and scholars of the world's most populous churches accept interpretations of the Bible more conservative than those normally prevailing in American mainline denominations.

National churches like the Church of England and other mainline Protestant denominations are losing ground in a world where nationality and culture are becoming increasingly flexible in the lives of most people.

Indeed in Europe, where one Christian denomination was dominant, other Christians often suffered from discrimination and sometimes persecution.

We are at the place today where there are thousands of groups and denominations, with little unity or love between us.

It would be beneficial to provide at least some communities, either within our denominations or independently, where what the pastor believes is not primary, as long as they are committed to the unique and individual spiritual health of their members.

Where do the models come from that major denominations in the United States rely on to govern themselves and to conduct their business?

I'm aware of several churches where the denomination bought and paid for the land, but the congregation paid for the building.

I have a dream that the people of our splintering denominations will one day serve as a unified church where they will not be judged by the adherence to a doctrinal statement but by the content of their character and their conformity to the love of Jesus.

Yet even in this area, where there is most to celebrate in the church's response, the metanoia has not gone far enough to contribute significantly to the long - term health of the oldline denominations.

Overseas it was largely, although by no means entirely, in lands in which British missions, from related Protestant denominations, were active; in islands, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, which had come under the flag of the United States; in Japan, which the United States had led in opening to the outside world; in Hawaii, with which the commerce of the United States had provided contacts; and in Latin America, where geographic propinquity and the common possession of alleged republican institutions had nourished in the people of the United States an emotional interest.

To use a phrase which became a benchmark for theology within my own denomination - the Evangelical Covenant Church - there is a commitment to ask the question: where is it written?

In sparsely settled regions where only a handful of Baptist churches are present, the mission should be ecumenically extended to include other denominations that share congregational practice and polity; e.g., the United Church of Christ, the Brethren, the Disciples, the Quakers.

Where criticism comes from the viewer's own denomination, the basis of common concern is maximized and the viewer is encouraged to view religious programs critically in order to discern that which is dissonant with other aspects of their faith.

A unique opportunity to study the effectiveness of television in contributing to the growth of a church was provided in Tallahassee, Florida, in 1974, where the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination strategically planned for the establishment of two new congregations.

The most important change to take place should be that this denomination quite hiding pedophiles by playing a shell game with where they serve.

The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.