Not exact matches
I was raised Catholic, found myself getting involved in evangelical Christianity during my «youth
group» teenage / young adult years, and within the past year have found myself
returning to Catholic
church for this exact reason:
But these gifts are used today when missionaries are sent
to unreached people
groups, or when certain people call the
church to repent and
return to a proper way of living with God.
's «program» (as it was reported by Frank Amos
to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. in 1938), it does illustrate Mel's awareness of the confusion that was set in motion almost as soon as Wilson
returned from Akron in the summer of 1935 and fell back into the arms of his Oxford
Group friends in New York, the counsel of Rev. Sam Shoemaker at Calvary
Church, and the bizarre «higher powers» mentioned in the writings of Professor William James.
In fact, David Whitmer never
returned to the LDS
church that he was a witness for, but joined splinter
groups that denied the original LDS
church he was first a member of.
They are attended by students coming from many
church groups who
return on graduation
to their denominations.
While the mainline
churches have, for the most part, long since ceased
to expect a visible
return of Christ, this expectation has never been given up in the more conservative
groups.
And people who don't attend any
church at all, but simply try
to follow Jesus relationally, can bless both
groups as well and be blessed in
return.
She added that a
group of about 10 - 12 people who claimed
to be coming
to Ghana for a
church programme were
returned by immigration officers who thought their movement was suspicious.