Sentences with phrase «from denominations»

One of the oldest online Christian dating services, Single Christian Network states they have thousands of single Christians from all denominations and age groups.

cMatch members hail from countries and regions around the world, including the U.S., Canada, East Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia, and come from all denominations of Christianity.

Such money, used as EBC has employed it, became leverage for more money from denominations themselves.

Their members are largely recruited from denominations in which the mix of Enlightenment values and traditional views is far more confused.

I notice in Australia that the stats from all denominations indicate that if you have less than 120 members attending you will struggle to employ a Pastor and pay your bills.

(CSGC counts Christians from all denominations.

One result of television «s influence is that, within the religious community itself, the balance of authority is moving away from those denominations which emphasize the common welfare, toward religious groups that are distinctly privatistic and oriented toward utilitarian individualism.

Yet is the balance of American religious life slipping away from those denominations that have a historic concern for the common good toward religious groups so privatistic and self - centered that they begin to approach the consumer cafeteria model of Thomas Luckmann's invisible religion?

Commenting on the NCC's first assembly meeting in Denver, Colorado, in late 1952, Charles Clayton Morrison, then a contributing editor, defended the council as an «artifact, which does not belong to the nature of the church,» but which nevertheless deserved support from denominations as a vehicle for moving away from the divisions within the church caused by «human contrivances» (January 7, 1953).

Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesmen in my books, besides I'm in the big leagues (Catholic) don't play with the minor league stuff and trust me I've been to almost every religion over my life searching for answers, I have a library of Bibles, Reference Books from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questions.

The data from these denominations — including the Southern Baptist Convention, the Church of the Nazarene and the Assemblies of God — suggest that there are 1.4 working clergy per church.

I mean it would call for Christians from all denominations and sects to join together as one voice.

Because their structure is organized to secure the preservation and extension of the larger institution, congregations that take their primary identity from their denominations can not relate to the total life of a community.

Modestly increasing numbers of bright young people from all denominations are seeking theological training.

The demand for higher standards needs to come from denominations and through the hiring practices of local congregations.

The General War Time Commission of the Churches was established to get the fullest possible co-operation from all denominations.

More recently, theologians and church leaders from denominations that have historic ties with churches in the north have encouraged African Christian expressions that are free of northern acculturation, are faithful to the gospel and draw upon traditional African

Traditional church planters normally receive between $ 200,000 and $ 400,000 from denominations or church planting associations.

Take any book on Systematic theology from each denomination, it'll make your head spin

It said that national and state officials from the denomination were working with the local church to overturn the policy.

For example, I come from a denomination where women's organizations have been in the forefront of raising funds and dispatching workers on behalf of health and education.

Will we nurture movements that are neither a division of nor a diversion from the denomination?

In some cases this means that a church leaves a particular aspect of evangelism untreated and recommends to its leaders a good resource in that field available from another denomination.

Baptists, for example, insist that persons who come into their church from another denomination that practices infant baptism or uses a form of baptism other than immersion be rebaptized.

How about asking some people who actually believe in Jesus (from any denomination)

Religion News Service: South Carolina diocese defecting from the Episcopal Church The Diocese of South Carolina announced on Wednesday (Oct. 17) that it has disaffiliated from the Episcopal Church, escalating a long - running skirmish and setting the stage to become the fifth diocese to secede from the denomination.

A very small percentage of women from her denomination seek ordination, and their chances of finding a church that will receive their ministry are small.

Finally, serious publishing requires both freedom and enlightened oversight from the denomination.

Of course, this would not work if after receiving such reports there were no serious response from the denomination.

And finally, and this disturbs me, I am beginning to believe that these simple practical lovers are His true bride — that there will in the end before the Judgement be people who trusted in Jesus from every denomination, and even beyond; who responded in love and walked in love and yielded to Him, and were accepted by Him.

They gained approval from their denomination, gave themselves a name, and announced to the community that they constituted a church.

Even lay people, with no formal theological education, no ministry training, no official credentials from any denomination, and no accountability to anyone, can go online with an opinion.

When the local congregation withdrew from the denomination, it claimed ownership of tens of millions of dollars worth of real and personal church property.

The Catholic faith has two different versions, and for Protestants there are separate examples from each denomination, including Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian and Lutheran versions of the traditional wedding vows.

Not exact matches

More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.

Cash is collected in small denominations from individual buyers and then bundled in great stacks of broken - in bills that are used to pay wholesalers, like the Flores brothers.

If that is so, there is no safe refuge in any of our denominations from the difficult set of problems for Christian orthodoxy unveiled in Benne's report.

S. Palin's Three B Syndrome came from the RCC and the Assemblies of God church, the nation's largest Pentecostal denomination.

Not his gay personality, but the way he was excluded from community then written out of two denominations» history.

repent ye sinner and donate your wealth in generous denominations and ye shall be saved from wickedness and evil.

The Mormons are no different from other denominations in at least one major way; that is, they interpret the Bible differently than others - BUT so do all churches.

And with over 38,000 different denominations of xtianity out there (all taking something different from the same book mind you) who has it right?

Concerning «getting pearls of wisdom» from research and review of original documents posted on the Internet, versus doctrinal justifications by a specific denomination which begin with enamored language, such as «most convincingly», «sublime article», «holy Christian faith», «believe and confess»....

Often, he'd get people from various denominations who wanted to argue points of theology with him.

We Christians are not monolithic and from early years we are aware of other denominations and faiths.

The denomination has been accruing funds since it broke off from the Catholic Church in the 16th century, and the fund is used to pay pensions for its clergy and workers.

Yes, was the most common answer from the people that enjoyed Yoga classes; and no from the spiritual leaders of the denomination.

Even Jews who disagree with Church teachings about any given issue will benefit from a closer working relationship between the Church and Jewish leaders from the broadest possible spectrum of ideologies and denominations.

Men (denominations) give themselves authority and say it comes from a calling from God.

The Pew report categorizes charismatic Christians as a subset among non-Pentecostal denominations and includes Christians from each of the major branches: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant.