Sentences with phrase «growing ends of the church»

The growing ends of the Church in the United States are those that have grasped that truth and are living it in mission.

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The point is that if more people are admitting that they are Atheist then it is cool but, does that herald the end of the church... no and as we have been arguing a few threads up... the Faithful have continued to grow.

My wife and I have felt this way for some time, but of course, growing up in the church we were always taught we needed to end our prayers this way.

Those 14 people grew into 100 people in three months, and by the end of the first year the church outgrew the bar and bought a new space to hold the more than 400 people attending the church.

As a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing things.

Those words I toss around so casually in my lectures — faith, doubt, fundamentalism, gender, sexuality, church — are potent seeds that have nestled, split, and grown inside of them, over many years, producing testimonies as unique and as urgent as the ones they print in Christianity Today, but without the tidy endings.

With a sense of joy at the end of the old and the birth of the new, the Taiwanese theologian, C. S. Song, said in 1975 that we celebrate the end of foreign missions and the growing confidence of the church in the Third World which makes demands for «entirely new relations with the church in the West»:

The writer has in view the disturbed political situation of the late fifties or early sixties, the «wars and rumours of wars» upon the eastern frontier of the Empire, the famines and earthquake shocks recorded under Claudius and Nero, and the growing isolation and unpopularity of the Christian Church; but he is concerned to assure his readers that» the end is not yet.»

I want to end with a citation from the 1985 statement of the Inter-Orthodox Symposium on the Lima documents; it takes its direction from the classical concept of reception: «Reception at this stage is a step forward «in the «process of our growing together in mutual trust...» towards doctrinal convergence and ultimately towards «communion with one another in continuity with the apostles and the teachings of the universal Church».

You can have the most «perfect» situation you can imagine (like the growing church at the end of Acts 2), but the reality is that the «ravening wolves» are already within and without, and only the «sword of the spirit» is going to sharp and keen enough to both protect us and lance the wounds inflicted by such.

Should there be greater movement toward such neoevangelicalism, conservative churches can continue to grow by serving those near the conservative end of a moving cultural spectrum.

You can definitely limit the size of the church (in a healthy way) by making sure that you multiply small groups that grow beyond a specified size (18 - 20 works nice, at that point you are losing a degree of intimacy already) but more important you make sure that you cultivate the gifts needed to lead these groups — otherwise you end up with a bunch of small churches and a burned out pastor.

The first of these texts urges forbearance and gentleness; the second declares the necessity for factions in the Church in order that «those who are genuine among you may be recognized»; and the third cites the parable that the servant should suffer the tares to grow along with the wheat until the end of time.

Thus in place of three basic, though overlapping ministries of the primitive church (sometimes concurrently discharged by the same person) we found at the end of the two centuries of evolution three main orders of the clergy: the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate and an ever - growing series of lower orders.

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In response to the growing vampire threat, the Church had established a secret society of «Priests» to fend off the vampires and end the bloodshed.

The Shelter Cycle tells the story of two children, Francine and Colville, who grew up in the Church Universal and Triumphant, a religion that predicted the world could end in the late 1980s.

She'd stopped going to the House of Prayer Full Gospel Holiness Church years ago because it started at ten in the morning and didn't end till three in the afternoon, which is enough religion to kill a full - grown person she'd said.

This is a story About growing up in church, And rebelling against it.About breaking a heart, And finding a way to mend it.About hearing God's voice, And trying to obey it.About avoiding expectation, And learning to defy it.This is the story of an unlikely couple, Max and Crazy Jenna, Who from Sunday School to adulthood, Ventured to and from the prodigal's path, And ended up finding each other...