Sentences with phrase «established church»

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

From board culture to ministry culture: As established churches, congregations often developed elaborate structures of boards and committees similar to those of many other voluntary organizations.

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

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

«More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»

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.

As to arguments over divinity by the faithful these are no different than what Paul experienced when establishing the church.

Some think church planters should just pastor established churches.

The English Established Church, e.g., will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

The one thing they did not want to do was to establish a church like the Church of England.

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.

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

As pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church, a church leader and the planter of two churches, I am passionate about planting churches, but also helping established churches thrive.

As pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church, a church leader and the planter of two churches, I am passionate about planting churches, but also helping established churches thrive.

Being a bigger admirer of Jesus, however, Bridget lives just as He would have her - traveling the United States establishing churches.

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.

Nestorian missionaries reached China and established churches there.

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 New England Puritans saw themselves as escaping a corrupt established church.

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.

What the Puritans really wanted was a chance to establish a Church free from all corruptions.

This «separation,» which Baptist Goen cherishes, practically contributes to disunity, because laws establishing churches do provide coherence and impose unity.

When the English crown established the Church of England as the official religion of the realm, the activity of worship was married to the emotion of patriotism.

Purportedly Francis is laying the groundwork for a subtle work - around of established Church teachings:

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.

The idea that voluntary forms of Christian religion are somehow closer to the original Christian meaning than are established churches cuts far too many corners, blurs far too many important distinctions, engages in too much special pleading, and ignores far too much history to be persuasive.

The Word of God in Christ, primarily declared in the Church's kerygma, is what in fact establishes the Church.

Winfred served as a teacher at the newly established Seminary at Pasumalai.19 When Anderson visited the AMM during the 1855 Deputation he encouraged Winfred's ordination as pastor of the newly established church at Mallinkinaru.

I work with more than one mission agency that has a history of sending workers to minster alongside established churches in other countries.

At other times, their actions have been directed against the more established church leadership — not always to reform it but sometimes to undercut and discredit it.

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

Jesus outside of mans traditions established His church.

«But the First Amendment, in its final form, did not simply bar a congressional enactment establishing a church; it forbade all laws respecting an establishment of religion.

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

The congregation has grown from seven to 160 people and All Hallows is no longer a church plant but a church that plants (plans are underway to establish another church in Canning Town).

More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»