Sentences with phrase «ecclesial communities rather»
As for saying that these other associations are ecclesial communities rather than churches in the full sense — as, for instance, the «particular churches» of Orthodoxy are churches — this should cause no hard feelings.
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Perhaps the most harmful transformation, though, has been the PCUSA's adoption of decision - making procedures that mimic American - style liberal democracy rather than expressing the character and quality of ecclesial community.
Rather, the Lord Jesus is to gaze upon the faith of the entire ecclesial community.