Sentences with phrase «establish a church like»

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Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

During that time, I established an online preaching ministry, Virtual Deaf Church, for deaf people like myself.

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

The established churches are, by and large, sitting in their holy huddles thinking to themselves, «If only they would come to use so we can «fix» them and they could be lucky, like us.»

Why then is it so hard and almost never coming for those who sit in a hierarchy that Jesus never established (Luke 22:24 - 26) and who also set up «litmus tests» for excommunicating «heretics» (subtly administered in the following way»... maybe it would be better if you would find yourself a church that believes more like you do...») to repent and change the order of their churches?

Like the establishment clause of the First Amendment, which Madison authored a few years later, it was a Madisonian addendum to the Lockean ideal of liberal toleration in a society with an established church.

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

The freedom of religion clause in the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing a state religion that all must be party to like it was in England (hince the Church of England) not to keep prayer out of anything the government has it's hands in.

A summary treatment of the subject, like the chapter on the Song of Songs in Jean Danielou's The Bible and the Liturgy, with its wealth of citations from the early Church, would establish his point even more convincingly.

The church, as he described it, is more like the established churches of Europe.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

The whole idea of Saddleback expanding to what we call «strategic global cities», like London, is to establish base camps to resource churches that will go to other places around the world in mission.

Giving people what they want may sound like crass marketing, but it may in truth be the only way that the established church can show that it cares about people who are not already members.

Then Constantine got sick of all the debating so he ordered a Bible assembled and a church established, so Christianity became Catholicism — a whole new faith with startling new concepts like the infallibility of the Pope, the trinity, etc..

Some were established to prepare nongraduates for Orders, like the Missionary College of the Church Missionary Society, founded at Islington in 1815.

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that establish an official national religion (e.g. Islam in Saudi Arabia, or the Church of England in colonial times), or from passing laws that prohibit you from getting together with those of like mind and faith.

Card, who has expressed his views about homosexuality in more detail than can be summarized in a sound bite, has, for years, bristled at accusations that he is a homophobe, establishing his views about homosexuality in the context of his faith as member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, a faith, like those of Catholics, that deems the practice of homosexuality as a sin.

Just like that, director David Mackenzie establishes, first, the idea that the men in that blue Camaro are up to no good; second, the current of economic desperation driving screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's story; and third, the religious posturing that offers an alternative to existential despair, with roadside churches, TV evangelists, and Christian radio offering a relentless white - noise stream of piety on demand to an American underclass with nowhere left to turn.

With its assured direction (it's hard not to love the way he frames many of his establishing shots with menacing church edifices looming in the background) and great performances from the likes of Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and (especially) Liev Schreiber,

The religious troglodytes established monastic settlements, and their cave churches add a biblical solemnity to the Flintstones - like region.

Burgersdorp is the oldest town in the North - Eastern Cape established by the Dutch - Reform Church circa 1846 and boasts history and culture for enthusiasts like old churches, monuments and artwork.

Anyone who would like to form SoulCollage ® Groups or use SoulCollage ® in already established groups (such as church groups, women's groups, senior groups, hospice, educational classes) or as an art technique as an adjunct to other kinds of groups, classes, or workshops is welcome to register.