Sentences with phrase «early church leaders decided»
As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.
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On a visit to the UK for the Pioneer Church Leaders Conference in early 1996, they heard about the Pioneer «Partnership» structure and decided to use the model.
Since the early church had no set «canon of Scripture» (we'll deal with this later), no universally accepted doctrinal statements or creeds, no seminaries to teach «correct doctrine», and no Pope or Denominational leaders to decide between disagreeing factions, there was a lot of disagreement in the early church about what was truth and what was «heresy.»