Sentences with phrase «for established churches»

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

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

We have a specific provision in this country for the established Church of England.

Not exact matches

The reason for using a church building to start, is that it keeps from requiring more financing upfront, before the business is established.

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.

Ben Rogers, East Asia Team Leader at advocacy charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide, told Premier: «The Islamic Defenders Front, they for years have been pushing this agenda, trying to shut down churches, attack the Ahmadiyya community - who're a sect of Islam that other Muslims disagree with - and also often raided nightclubs and bars and want Sharia law to be established.

Madison, a Deistically - influenced Christian who, along with his family, helped establish the Anglican church in the U.S., saw many of this goals for government attained with the ratification of the Consti.tution and the Bill of Rights.

Churches are the model established for us in scripture.

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.

The plan calls upon churches to, among other things, «adopt» street gangs and allow troubled youths to use church properties as safe havens; intercede for youth in the juvenile court system; provide vocational training to inner - city residents; organize capital for micro-enterprises; develop educational curricula heralding the achievements of blacks and Latinos; initiate neighborhood crime watch groups; and establish counseling programs for battered women and the men who abuse them.

For example: «It is truth that today's manly - made churches are in actualities a mimmickery of wanting to establish mankinds» on and upon earth Christendoms being their idolized and adorned perceptions and variations...» This is probably one of the worst word usage I've ever seen.

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

Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it...

For example I might believe full force that Xenu sent little aliens down here and if that's what I'm convinced is accurate, then I'm a Scientologist regardless of if I attend a church or participate in any established organization directly.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

Lord Carlile emphasised that the review was not to establish the truth of Carol's claims, but only to investigate the Church's handling of the case and establish best practice for handling future complaints.

An ongoing challenge for church and clergy is to sufficiently establish the significance of scripture in the hearts and minds of believers so that they will attempt the hard work, the life's work, of seeking to understand the Word made Book.

Therefore, I think it is important for churches to establish at least unwritten laws concerning the way it treats its individuals.

But the meaning it had for Equiano was a bit different from that assigned to it by our young contemporaries, responsive to calls for «social justice,» and from long - established commitments in the black 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.

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.

again there isnothing that is saying joining of church and state in praying during a metting... for it does not ESTABLISH that you have to believe in what they say..

For Christian humanism — faithful in this to the most firmly established theology of the Incarnation — there is no real independence or discordance but a logical subordination between the genesis of humanity in the world and the genesis of Christ, through his Church, in humanity.

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?

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

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

«[Religious leaders] essentially decided during the past twenty years that people could fend for themselves on matters of personal morality while the churches joined the «struggle» to establish social «rights» whose imprimatur comes from the courts, America's unique bishopric.»

As Kinnaman puts it, «which model [does] the Church most resemble — the established monolith or grassroots network — and what might that mean for its relevance in the lives of a collaborative, can - do generation that feels alienated from hierarchical institutions?»

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

The Holy See only established diplomatic relations with Burma in May, and the local Catholic Church had begged Francis not to create waves - and possible problems for them - by using the term.

Since then they have established an adoption fund and have teams of people who are raising money, running marathons for orphaned children, and partnering with other churches both locally and globally to bring hope to orphans.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

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.

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.

The ministers noted in recent sermons that the Baptist church in the U.K. actually fought to establish an inter-faith community for the city almost 400 years ago for all people in the city.

For up to now the individual Christian has established a social relation with the Church more or less exclusively through the territorial parish, which is an administrative section of the diocese.

What is remarkable is that, during a period in which the church persecuted Christian heretics in large numbers and Christian fought one another in terrible wars over theological differences, no scientists lost their lives for overturning the established worldview of Christendom.

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.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

Elaine Pagels has established her reputation by making the seemingly arcane topic of patristics, the theology of the early church, into a subject for celebrated and briskly selling books.

Vatican II established the other «pole» for the Church in the democratic age: a position that explicitly recognizes «the merits of democracy and liberalism» in and of themselves.

As it stands, the Roundtable is a collaborative effort of wealthy East Coast Catholics, academics, editors, and Church activists who are determined to devise a strategy for establishing a major role for the laity in the governance of the Catholic Church in this country.

One denomination has a program for encouraging local congregations and groups of churches to establish telephone crisis counseling centers.

However, faith aside, separation of church and state was established for a reason.

On the state level, specific exemptions from property taxes for churches were established in Virginia in 1777, New York in 1799, and the city of Washington in 1802.

I believe you are genuinely searching for the truth, yet at times I wondered if you were having a go at the established beliefs of the Church just to prove them wrong.

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.

In general, long - established congregations appear to hold their own or to slip a little in terms of total membership, while Pentecostal and charismatic churches seem to have an increasing appeal, particularly for youth.