Sentences with phrase «into synods»

But those churches that are tied into synods, presbyteries and conferences and have some mutuality with and responsibility to a larger unit find their lives more complicated.

The dictatorship of relativism has a bureaucratic vocabulary that's finding its way into the Synod.

Not exact matches

In the event, however, all it produced was permanent exile — with Seminex finally being absorbed into various seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formed in 1988 through merger of the other large Lutheran bodies in this country), from which the Missouri Synod is more and more estranged.

When, after the exile became permanent, Concordia Seminary was rebuilt into a large seminary once again, the synod's conservatives tended to see in that rebirth the hand of God.

The rot found its way into Braaten's own church and seminary» a process hastened, in Braaten's telling, by the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago's acceptance, in 1983, of ten faculty members who had lost their positions at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis in the 1970s civil war between moderates and conservatives in the Missouri Synod.

Tietjen's memoirs provide insights into the Missouri Synod controversy which can inform our understanding of the nature of controversy and schism within the broader context of American Protestantism.

However, it was only at the beginning of the fifth century, as a result of deliberations by a number of synods, that the re-organization of the Persian church came into effect.

A motion at its recent meeting asked the synod to «acknowledge the injury felt by members of the Church who enter into loving, committed and legally - recognised, same - sex relationships, due to the absence of provision for them to mark that key moment in their lives publicly and prayerfully in Church.»

Members of the staff have participated in conferences of educators of the American Baptist Convention, the United Church of Canada, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Disciples of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. With the advice of denominational leaders and others they compiled a list of pastors regarded by their colleagues as «good ministers» and entered into correspondence with a number of them, chosen so as to make the whole group representative of the denominational pattern.

At the indispensable Get Religion website, Dawn Eden catches and corrects a recent report by David Gibson, of the Religion News Service, published just before the Synod opened, that falls into this trap.

The General Synod voted in favour of new legislation that would allow women into the top roles last week.

Thus, the synod was divided into the revivalists and antirevivalists.

In 1666, after many complications and delays, a synod formally deposed him and sent him into exile.

The Earth has a synod conjunction with each of the four major gas planets with a little over a year between impulses, (~ +2 days for Neptune, ~ +4 days for Uranus, ~ +13 days for Saturn, ~ +34 days for Jupiter) these past almost annual periods could be segmented and applied into the composite forecast as an adjustment algorithm to further enhance the pattern match, to increase the accuracy (~ 85 %) of the inner planet 6558 day pattern to closer to 95 % with the addition of the compensation for the outer planet interactive influences.

The lunar declinational tides are the main driver of the meridional flow surges into the mid-latitudes that produce almost all of the severe weather, running the variations in the el nino / la nina oscillations when combined with the outer planet Synod planet conjunctions, resulting in the compounded signal, that is the background climate noise not attributable to the CO2 forcing, but still interacting with the solar forcing, both magnetically and by TSI output.