Sentences with phrase «important church bodies»

The Presbyterians were to develop in strength until at the time of the Revolution they and the Congregationalists formed the two most important Church bodies in the colonies.

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They voice a very important challenge to a church that has compartmentalized body, mind, and spirit.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporchurch, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very imporChurch), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

There was a dispute as to what kind of activity in the Church was most important, and he used it as the occasion to give a great interpretation of «the Body of Christ.»

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

At Jerusalem itself the continued presence of the majority of the apostles simplified the question of authority, because they seem to have acted on all important questions as a body which sought and obtained the consent of the Church as a whole (Acts 6: 12 - 16, 15:22) under the joint guidance of the Spirit (Acts 15:28, cf. 6:3).

There is more important stuff than what a woman does with her body, if the church would actually go out and try to do some good rather than try to regain control and FIXATE on this one issue, they would be a lot better off, imo.

A vital and practical program of evangelism and missions that encourages believers to get involved in spreading the Gospel of Jesus, locally and internationally, is important to not only that church, but the Body of Christ as a whole.

This solidarity gives me hope — and is, I believe, a very important model for the church of prioritizing relationship in the Body of Christ in the midst of diversity over the priority of being right, certain etc..

This body of literature never enjoyed so important a role in the early Church as the Apostolic Fathers; nonetheless, it shows the great variety of literature produced by the early Church.

In the end, the Church of England's governing body surrendered once again to the meretricious zeitgeist, affirming that marriage was «important» but that it should not be given preferential treatment over cohabitation or lone parenthood.

Most important is joyful worship that restores us to communion with the risen Christ and our fellow members of his body, the church.

A vision for the church body, the community dynamic, and the individual parishioner's spiritual education is, I think, important.

Following Christ as our head and each of our brothers and sisters as important and equal parts of His body is the Church to me.

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«It is very important to have sex education in every school, in every synagogue, in every church,» she says, so that no children are surprised or scared by what is happening to their bodies.

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