Sentences with phrase «evangelical denominations as»

(Ash Wednesday services are becoming more popular among other protestant and evangelical denominations as well.)

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As a former evangelical, I put some faith in the fact that I was in a church that was part of a mainline, liberal denomination.

The majority of these belong to the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; the rest primarily to Protestant denominations such as the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (which recently broke ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over theological concerns).

As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same - sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton's official and long - held positions.

The proportional use of time which the networks maintained with the various major religious groups was not totally satisfactory for some of the larger individual denominations and the individual fundamentalist and evangelical organizations and they turned to alternative methods of broadcasting as well.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

The evangelicals, who run through every denomination, are fun to hang out with on occasion, but they anticipate a level of enthusiasm out of me that I just can't muster up every day — I am a person who is chipper some times and acerbic others; I can't handle being happy clappy all the time as some sort of faith statement.

Some denominations, such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Methodist Church, have expressed special outrage over child pornography and have also called for telephone and television companies to do more to restrict access to pornographic materials.

Clive Staples would approve of your swan, version two, a version unknown to the good folks in the conservative evangelical denomination I attended as a child.

Different Christian denominations were at home in each party as well: Catholics and Southern Baptists supported the Democrats, and northern mainline and evangelical Protestants the Republicans.

Rather than stay at Yale and work toward his doctorate, Niebuhr accepted the appointment by his denomination as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915.

His comments come as the Catholic Church of England and Wales joined the «fleshandblood» campaign, alongside several other denominations and organisations such as the Church of England, the Baptist Union, the Evangelical Alliance and the Churches of Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

The charismatics tended to be the evangelicals and as the mainline denominations became more progressive theologically, the charismatics began to be increasingly uncomfortable.

On October 3, 1949, thirty - eight denominations set out to win as many as possible of the 70 million unchurched people of this country to a living evangelical faith.

There are lots of people (Baptists, Lutherans, Evangelicals, all 3000 + denominations of Christianity) who identify as Christian who are not very Christian at all.

African - American religious leaders are generally well to the left on economic issues, as are many evangelicals in Latin America, and also independent and Protestant denominations across Africa.

The national survey used an index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor, including contributing to or attending church, participation in community activities, income, age or sex.

While 35 percent of American adults identify themselves as evangelical, just a quarter belong to an evangelical denomination and only 6 percent meet the Barna Group's definition based on nine questions about beliefs, noted NPR in a lengthy report.

The national survey used the «literalist / charismatic» index of evangelical belief (as opposed to membership in an evangelical denomination), which showed that holding these beliefs was more strongly associated with the viewing of religious programs than any other single factor — including attending church, contributing to a church, participating in community activities, income, age, or sex.

Some evangelical denominations, including Southern Baptists, have recently moved to put more restrictions on women serving as pastors.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

NOTE: «Hour of Power» is identified as an independent evangelical program, even though Robert Schuller is an ordained Reformed Church of America clergyman, because the denomination has no association with the program.

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

Their book may not turn card - carrying members of mainline denominations into Evangelicals, but it might begin to make them «wise as serpents.»

Schillebeeckx would have a stronger argument if there were an established cultural tradition of a specific type of conversion experience such as can be found in certain Christian denominations, particularly in «evangelical» sects and in the southern United States.

Alex also serves as Executive Director for The Immigration Alliance, a coalition of evangelical denominations and organizations mobilizing churches to provide low - cost immigration legal services.

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The AoG is a Pentecostal and evangelical denomination holding, among other things, the Divine inspiration of the Bible, the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as the believer's empowerment for witness and service, speaking in tongues as the evidence of that baptism, sanctification through the work of the Spirit, a church on mission, Divine healing for the sick available to believers, the return of Christ and a final judgment.

Surveying the American past with Evangelicals as their focus, Finke and Stark discover the same «law» of American church history that Kelley did two decades ago: «To the degree that denominations rejected traditional doctrines and ceased to make serious demands on their followers, they ceased to prosper.»

«76 The evangelicals generally would agree with Thomas Smyth to «include under the term presbyterian, all denominations which are governed by ministers who are recognized as of one order, and who, as well as their other officers, are chosen, are removable, and are supported by the people.»

As a member of one of the so - called Mainline denominations and a nondispensationalist Evangelical, I feel impelled to respond.

But evangelicals thought of their «churches» as «denominations» where «the word «denomination» implies that the group referred to is but one member of a larger group, called or denominated by a particular name.

Yet the dramatic growth in the 1970s of schools within «conservative» Protestant religious movements led to a narrower definition: a «Christian school» is one that's affiliated with one of the conservative Protestant denominations, such as Southern Baptist and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, and, in general, with one of the dominant streams within conservative Protestantism — the evangelical, charismatic, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal religious movements.

Christian fiction might be novels published by members of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, but that excludes self - published authors and non-evangelical publishers targeting a specific denomination, such as Roman Catholic.