Sentences with phrase «early church leaders for»

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Early Popes (and other Christian Church leaders) placed the blame on the Jews for the execution of Jesus.

The early church not only preserved the account of Peter evangelizing a Roman centurion, but also told of how Peter convinced skeptical church leaders that it was God's design for him to embrace the enemy.

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.

Firstly, it must be remembered, that he disclaims very early in the book that he can only speak for the mainline denominations with which he is familiar, and although my memory may fail me, he implies that he can only speak for his observations of the churches / leaders with whom he is familiar, and also that he may be wrong, and also, that he is only pointing out what he calls a possible cause for the problems he has seen, and hopes that his suggestions / ideas, will be considered, researched, etc, and that time will tell if his thesis bears any truth or not.

Early Church leaders wrote about persecution: «The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed» for the growth of God's people.

Early in 2002 the Mennonite Central Committee will release «Connecting Peoples,» a guide for pastors and local church leaders who want to lead groups or establish sistering relationships.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

In their early days, when the Emergent Church was vying with the new Calvinism for pole position in the American evangelical world, they launched regular, and often very thorough, critiques of the Emergent leaders.

Priority should be given to establishing certain types of groups: As indicated earlier, one of these is a group for church officials, other lay leaders, teachers, and youth leaders.

For example, one of my church leaders insisted that early Christian preachers had their heads cut off and still carried on preaching.

Although it would be a mistake to suppose that Paul speaks at every point for all the early church — that he surely does not do, as he himself lets us know in no uncertain terms — still he represents more clearly than any other early Christian leader the direction which Christian reflection upon Jesus actually took.

Just read the fathers of the church like Athanasius and you will see that the Early Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save church like Athanasius and you will see that the Early Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save Church preached the true gospel and here leaders were not greedy for honor, power and riches, but wanted to save souls.

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.

Early on, he says his church leaders pegged him for a bit of a troublemaker, and that wasn't necessarily seen as a bad thing.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The Waldenses were in the tradition of earlier twelfth - century leaders, such as Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia, who led a life of poverty, denounced the clergy for unworthy luxury and grasping for political power, and condemned many of the current customs of the Church.

Earlier she had asked the diaconate of that all - white church in a town 98 percent white to invite a black seminarian to become a student assistant and worship leader every Sunday for a year.

In his speech earlier, the leader of the LORDS CHOSEN Church, Pastor Muoka told the governor that they want to start the University and complete it without delay and asked for the support of the state government.