Your continued push that most people, if confronted by their sin of living together, would
stay in that particular church is not even close to reality of the majority of those situations.
I hope this applies to your question, many times, sitting in
services in a particular church, the Pastor would give a reprimand to the congregation, saying: «If you feel the urge to raise your hands and do not do it, then you are resisting the Holy Spirit.»
The trigger words are «resisting the Holy Spirit» — the
ideology in this particular Church is based on outward signs of physical evidence of the Spirit of God, instead of the fruits of the Spirit, as proof of the Holy Spirit.
local catechisms and various catechetical supplements in
use in the particular Churches should be examined toensure their complete conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The now Wilsons WERE members of this church, and people join churches because they feel at
home in a particular church, they believe the doctrines taught by that particular denomination, and other reasons, so evidently this couple felt at home in this church.
The reasons I hear of most church closures from pastors they say its has either to many chiefs and not enough little Indians or there is to much flesh and not enough spirit driven
people in that particular churches.
If a low birth
rate in a particular church makes it unfeasible to hold such a series periodically, and if no community agency sponsors classes for expectant parents, it is wise for the pastor to meet with the couples separately to help prepare them for their demanding new roles.
It is certainly true that Vatican II's teaching on the «collegial union» of the bishops balances the earlier assertions of Vatican I. Moreover Lumen Gentium also teaches that «the individual bishops... are the visible principle and foundation of
unity in their particular churches» and as such individual bishops enjoy their own proper authority in their diocese.
Many of those who believe these wonderful truths about the gospel, have not yet believed in Jesus for eternal life, but are instead, believing in themselves, their good works, their «being a good person», their religious
activity in a particular church, or a whole variety of others human ideas about how to receive eternal life.
If we possess a religious faith, we probably recall that it originated in some particular person or persons,
in a particular church or place.
He wanted to control what the churches were teaching, and who the bishops and priests were
in a particular church.