Sentences with phrase «high church means»

For some, high church means formality: elaborate liturgical vestments, dignified gestures and postures, repetitiveness.

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The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian....

The apostolic constitution Ex Corde Ecclesiae (ECE), «From the Heart of the Church,» which Pope John Paul II issued in 1990, was meant to articulate the relationship between higher education, faith, Christian culture, and the Roman Catholic Church.

Church doesn't mean sitting in a pew anymore, listening to you talk like a high priest.

«I am not saying that I wish to be considered for the papacy, but the fact that the Gospel is to be preached to all peoples, languages, and races means that the highest leadership of the church should be open to anyone from any race, language and nation.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

This also is the reason that every Christian must of necessity be «high church,» not in any denominational sense, not with any ecclesiastical overtones, but simply because to be a Christian at all — as we have defined it — means to be a member of that great community of Christian life and worship and faith which has come to be known as «the church.»

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

Some Holiness churches, notably the Church of the Nazarene and the Wesleyan Church, have seen high - level administrative rulings against the charismatic movement whose enforcement means virtual excommunication for those professing charismatic experience.

In this background the spread of the Church was regarded as the highest spiritual value as it communicated the means of salvation to persons who would otherwise be dammed eternally.

Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..

In calling Jesus Son of Man, Messiah or Christ, Judge, King, High Priest, Logos, the primitive church began to interpret the relation of meaning and event.

The tax free status of any church, or any enterprise for that matter, means higher taxes for the rest of us, and forces us to back - handidly support them with our cash.

We are, for instance, constantly being reminded by those who have an interest in declaring the robustness of Christianity in America today that such - and - such a high percentage of Americans are to be found in church each Sunday and that an even higher percentage profess to believe in God; and while such numbers surely do not mean nothing, the very fact that the Christian party so often needs to invoke them is evidence that the religious enterprise, for all its vaunted majority status, is in a deeply defensive mode.

As the church in India prepares to enter the new millennium, it is high time that the rich insights, the detailed discussions, the joyful and painful experiences, are all harvested, winnowed and sieved, so that a return to the sources, a reaching back, can truly be the means of moving forward toward an uncertain, yet challenging future, as a church grasped by the vision of unity, in this multi-cultural and multi-religious land of ours.

Insofar as they mean to be Christian, why should the assorted political advocates of today's churches ride so high a theological horse when they enter the public political arena?

In practice, this meant that reports had to rely on leaks by high - ranking Church officials to their various favored journalists, which always accompany events in Rome, and which created a tug of war of claims and counterclaims — and little by way of fact or information to control them.

It means better church schools and Christian schools of higher learning so that the heritage of our faith may be passed on more fully and vitally to oncoming generations and so that adults may understand more accurately the foundations of their faith.

We do not intend that this institution shall take the highest place in our affections, or the largest share of our labors, but, that we hold this organization as auxiliary to the divinely appointed means of grace, the CHURCH and the preaching of the Gospel.26

The unusually late date of Easter this year meant that Divine Mercy Sunday coincided with the first day of the month traditionally dedicated to the Blessed Mother, which is alsothe feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, the Church's response to communism's consecration of 1 May as its «high holy day» for celebrating workers.

He held a high sacramental view of the Church, which in practice often meant simply a dictatorial view.

Sandra commented: «Not only is it places like a church that people put a higher value on as a place to get married in over but they put a high value on historic buildings and also places that have meaning to them

I think it is high time for the church to rethink what it means to be the church, and to question whether we really need the buildings and the clergy and all the programs.

Okay, please tell me your solution since you «think it is high time for the church to rethink what it means to be the church, and to question whether we really need the buildings and the clergy and all the programs.»

And because of our intense «sub monastic» transparency and organic ways as well as our high expectations of what it means to follow Christ as a subversive system, we have no intention of getting church folk to join our community... which is probably the best way to grow anyway eh?

I love when I'm able to wear nicer clothes to church (where I'm not wearing 4 layers) when the weather is nice, and by nice I mean 30 degrees or higher and that's good enough for this mid western girl considering it's winter.

That means you get high - end Bible study resources and top - notch customer service when you need help.We use technology to equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible.

That means you get high - end Bible study resources and top - notch customer service when you need help.We use technology to equip the Church to grow in the light of the Bible.

The American penchant for expressive individualism means that most conservative religious parents often place a higher priority on the unique qualities of individual children and the prerogatives of parental choice than on church dogma.

the church structure (it is an «autocephalous religious body», meaning its bishop does not report to a higher - up bishop)

Does anyone think that any parent would want his / her child to be in the presence of a child predating priest who has quietly been moved from one parish to another (after each self - indulgent disgusting episode) like a pea in the shell game by the guardian class from on high looking out for the organization's, I mean, church's interests, if said parent knew about the transgressions?