Sentences with phrase «establish churches all»

The object of all these orders was to establish churches according to the standards of the Reformers!

He managed to establish churches of his own to rival the Catholic church for the next two centuries.

It was because of Patrick's knowledge of the cultural customs, his mastery of the language and his boldness that the Gospel soon spread throughout Ireland and he was able to establish churches all over the island.

We are here today because our ancestors fought for religious freedom, braved and explored a new world to establish churches in America and spread the gospel.

To be sure, Lewis spoke to a nation with a legally established church in World War II — era Britain.

I don't really care what the purpose of establishing the church is.

However much this move might cost in terms of philosophical clarity, it could be defended either as an accommodation to the power of the established church (in England) or to the necessary of popular enlightenment (in America).

Some have started their own churches and others work for established churches.

I have walked away from the established church (and am unsure what faith I can now hold onto, if any) and have lots of questions.

God also commanded Joseph Smith to translate a record of the ancient inhabitants of the Americas, written by prophets who believed and taught the Savior Jesus Christ established his church under his direction.

The pregnancy was overshadowed by all the upset at church with the pastor leaving and the church splitting, and although we did go back for a short while when they had a new pastor, we moved to a more established church afterwards.

Throughout most of church history, the term «mission» meant what believers were «sent out» to do — to propagate Christianity by making converts and establishing churches.

The typical person from an established church has too many ideas of how church should be done.

I just wonder if there is any real way to compel them to come back to an established church where we are, hopefully, trying to reset our direction.

They suggest some ways that established churches can become missional.

Why can't you just pastor an established church?»

If we remember most of Jesus» criticism was for the established church.

This was done in a nation with a strong established church, so that the freedom enabled by religious toleration at its origins was a freedom of private worship and belief for dissenters, but not quite a freedom of common action in the public square.

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.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

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.»

It continued: «Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a «Christian country».

Although biographically Kierkegaard's choice of a negative dialectic was hardened by his second conversion or «metamorphosis,» a conversion which led to his resolve to attack the established church, and hence to abandon philosophy, it is also true that he could limit faith to a negative dialectical movement because he could identify faith and «subjectivity.»

Preparation for the Establishment of the Church (16:13 - 18:35) Technically speaking, Jesus did not establish the church.

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.

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

Whatever the immediate problems of 1967 — and they were terribly urgent — Jews profit more from the frightful mess of Protestantism than if it were the official or unofficial established church or, worse, a single political bloc.

The transition of an established Church to a Church of the community of faith already poses very pressing problems.

The S.P.G. was active in New England, winning converts, establishing churches, and pleading for bishops.

Such a move would be impossible for most established churches, but they could begin to move in that direction by portioning off an ever - increasing percentage of their annual budget for serving the community in this way.

When the American Revolution was completed, not only had the Established Church of England been rejected, but, more important, the very idea of Establishment had been discarded in principle by the new Constitution.

Opposed to the established churches, which happily included saints and sinners, they regarded their own churches as churches of the saved.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

Why, for example, was Newman so scathingly critical (even sarcastic) of the Established Church in Anglican Difficulties and yet so genuinely (if moderately) appreciative of the genuine graces given to him during his days as a member of the Church of England in the Apologia?

For example, if a teaching held that the Catholic Church had to be everywhere disestablished (proposition 55), it is not true to say that everywhere she should be an Established Church.

To speak of a «Church of the congregation» (Gemeindekirche), as distinct from the established Church (Volkskirche), is not unobjectionable.

Here he explains, in perhaps his mostly clearly worded manifesto, his exact attitude toward the real, albeit limited, value of the Established Church of England, together with the overriding necessity of Anglicans to convert to the «one, true fold»:

We're about to witness firsthand what happens when the established Church compromises its moral authority for the promise of power, and it won't be pretty.

It can be said, however, that the radical Christian invariably attempts by one means or another to return to the original message and person of Jesus with the conviction that such a return demands both an assault upon the established Church and a quest for a total or apocalyptic redemption.

I left the established churches twenty years ago and an Evangelical free church ten years ago.I think I have always been kind to others, others say so but i became very ill, still am struggling with health issues, and church people lost interest and in fact then through neglect made me worse.

Maybe I will take an established church here in the States, or around the world.

Nothing prevented «free» churches from being organized where there were already established churches.

Generally, established churches are quick to shoot down new ideas with many reasons why something can not or should not be done.

«Religious interest is growing in this country,» affirms Word Books publisher Jarrell McCracken, «but probably away from the established church and denominations.

Armed with this faith and the certainty of Christ's victory over death, they established the church and became flaming witnesses to the love and the power of God in Christ.

The Second Wave is understood as the influence of Pentecostalism on the mainline established churches, which eventually resulted in a distinguishable second movement.

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

Neville great quote i read that he was an atheist from what i understand he certainly had issues with the established church and it seems that he may have had some kind of faith in God he certainly had a gift for writing..

Pastoral care in the established church and in the minority missionary movement are two quite distinct operations.

Members believe that Christ established His Church anciently on the «foundation of the apostles and prophets» (Ephesians 2:20; see also Ephesians 4:11 - 14) with «one faith, [and] one baptism» (Ephesians 4:5).