One of Tocqueville's major insights was that Americans have benefited from popular participation in
the large number of churches, charities, clubs, and voluntary associations in our country, as well as in state and local governments, which stand between the individual and the national government in Washington, D.C.
London has traditionally been Christian, and has
a large number of churches, particularly in the City.
Actually
a large number of churches would run you out the door if you were not a paid up member, cash talks.
The large number of churches of eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the Caribbean and Latin America, have brought with them into the Council the hopes, the aspirations, and struggles of their peoples, races and nations.
As a result of the revivals
a large number of churches were founded outside the officially recognized State - established congregations.
During this time, he discovered many people in Colorado Springs did not have a God context, despite
the large number of churches and parachurch organizations in the area.
Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of
large numbers of church people.
Black viewers made up about 37 percent of the domestic turnout, according to PostTrak, fueled by
large numbers of church and school groups, not to mention pent - up demand for a superhero film led by black actors.
This resort is located on the north coast of Jamaica, an island nation that is smaller than the state of Connecticut, but has
the largest number of churches per square kilometer.
Not exact matches
Large group gatherings or worship services are the place where the
largest number of people within a
church are typically gathered in one place, and yet it's the least relational experience and environment in a
church.
We have a
large mega style
church here in Lexington where the lead Pastor succumbed to his own Ego fanned by rapid growth in
numbers and peer recognition
of his amazing «success».
Within both
of these
churches one can find
large numbers of local congregations in which orthodox faith, sacramental integrity, sound preaching, and missions
of charity live and flourish.
A quota system, rationalized and marketed as a tool both for mission and overcoming past injustice, had from the first another, and deeper, goal: to serve as a Trojan horse for importing the
largest possible
number of activists into the
church bureaucracy.
Fresh Expressions
of Church and
large numbers of immigrant Christians have helped to slow the decline in British churchgoing, according to figures from... More
«Second, a
large number of families relocated in the States will need solid, Bible - teaching, Christ - exalting
churches to attend, so we need more
church planters in the mainland.
If revisionists manage someday to recapture denominational offices and pulpits in
large number, the
churches will be less concerned to prescribe and implement theologically correct views and more interested in equipping people to do their own thinking about questions
of economic policy.
However here is a link I left off that previous list referencing a
large number of well recognized and qualified scholars and
church leaders.
I am among a growing
number of people who believe that there is an urgent need for a rebirth
of utopian thinking within the
church and in society at
large.
There was a sense
of disintegration in the air
of the
Church - as if things were somehow falling apart, even though it was still possible to rally
large numbers to St Peter «sSquare to observe the white smoke coming out
of the chimney and to cheer the new Pope as he arrived on the balcony.
But followers
of the real JC must admit that, until recently, neither the Christian
Church nor our nation's major political parties have been able to attract
large numbers of young adults.
What is remarkable is that, during a period in which the
church persecuted Christian heretics in
large numbers and Christian fought one another in terrible wars over theological differences, no scientists lost their lives for overturning the established worldview
of Christendom.
But this growth and the change that has resulted from
large numbers of refugees converting to Christianity can present challenges for smaller
churches.
The story quotes others who have dealt with the problem and say that «
churches are the perfect environment for sexual predators, because they have
large numbers of children's programs, a shortage
of workers to lead them, and a culture
of trust that is the essence
of the organization.»
In denominational systems which rely on placement appointments, an increase in the
number of women in senior pastorates is slowly beginning to occur; but in systems which rely on a call from a congregation, the availability
of highly qualified and experienced clergywomen has made little difference in the tendency
of large churches to call male ministers.
This means that a
large number of Christians follow the traditional beliefs
of their antecedents,
churches or mission bodies that led them to Christianity.
The
largest Pentecostal body, the
Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known church groupings and thousands of free - standing congrega
Church of God in Christ estimates its total membership at 3 million, and there are uncounted
numbers of persons affiliated with less well - known
church groupings and thousands of free - standing congrega
church groupings and thousands
of free - standing congregations.
A pulling away on the left by
large segments
of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging
of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics
of a
number of church bodies.
Although the popular Czech
Church was quite small, the
number of converts and sympathizers grew» especially among youth and the intelligentsia, and in the
larger towns.
Leadership is discovered, not only when a
church is bombed in Montgomery, or a woman refuses to go to the back
of a bus, but when
large numbers of persons are moving to communicate with one another and to find expression for their concerns.
The existence
of the
churches is not in jeopardy; they are and will continue to be for
large numbers of persons the only accessible institutions that will meet their need to be affirmed in their identity and sense
of belonging in both a human and a divine dimension.
Through the Network, the
church has access to a
large number of child - care providers well aware
of the problems caused by our national policy
of child «care - lessness.»
I am glad to see that the people
of Scotland are abandobing the Catholic
Church in
large numbers.
Through the Ecumenical Child Care Network, the
church is now in contact with the
largest number of child - care providers that has ever been identified.
Edward L. Cleary, a Catholic priest, says that «for every Catholic actively practicing his or her religion, in many countries an equal or
larger number of Latin Americans participate in some other form
of religion, «5 and Brazilian archbishop Lucas Moreira Neves, Secretary
of the National Conference
of Brazilian Bishops in 1985, taking into account all these events, has roundly affirmed that «The springtime
of the sects could also be the winter
of the Catholic
Church.
Large numbers of unconverted men, those who had never experienced the depth
of their dependence on God, were communicants in the
churches.
Thus a
large number of Separatist congregations cut themselves off from the State - supported Congregational
churches and became Baptists.
Whether we are speaking
of pastoral psychology as a more or less loosely organized body
of principles which informed the daily work
of increasingly
larger numbers of ministers educated in the better seminaries, or whether we are talking about pastoral psychology in its more professional manifestations in the form
of institutional chaplaincies or
church - related counseling centers, the sociological origins
of the movement tended to render it ineffective in relating to the specific problems and life - styles
of the poor.
(2) Following a wave
of persecution a
number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital
of Syria and a city which ranked with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the
Church in
large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.
However, Podles has a solid case that the aftereffect
of the Western medieval «bridal» devotional current is a significant contributor to the discomfort a
large number of men nowadays feel in investing themselves in spiritual movements or even
church itself.
But Notre Dame is a Catholic University and the Catholic
Church and hierarchy, and Catholics in
large numbers, believe that abortion is killing an innocent fetus and a seriously sinful violation
of the child's right to life.
During the Reformation, in spite
of the suffering
of very
large numbers of Protestants and later Roman Catholics, neither the Reformers nor the Roman
church turned to the hope
of a future millennium.
Large numbers of Christian
churches organized efforts to register conservatives to vote him out
of office.
The prophetic criticism by Bishop Paulose will continue to inspire a
large number of those inside and outside the
Church.
This group
of people is quite
large in
number within the
Church.
This smacks to many
of a deep - seated hatred
of homosexuals, rather than
of a recommitment to biblical principles
of marriage, especially in light
of the small
number of homosexuals who seek to be married in the
Church compared with the
large numbers of heterosexual Christians who have actively sought divorce.
What this apparent stability obscures, however, is the
large number of people who have left the Catholic
Church.
Jack Marcum, head
of research services for the Presbyterian
Church (U.S.A.), sees «little evidence
of a literal shortage
of ministers... We are training more than sufficient
numbers of ministers
of word and sacrament in the PCUSA to pastor mid-sized and
larger congregations and fill other traditional ministries.»
A very
large number of religious drop - outs, for example, simply drifted away from
church without knowing exactly why.
The fact was that not even the
larger Churches that approved
of revivalism made sufficient use
of it to appease considerable
numbers of people.
Both
churches in town needed
larger buildings to accommodate their
larger numbers, and the Methodists characteristically executed their funds campaign with aplomb, and with some smugness because the corresponding efforts
of their Baptist neighbors were «down in the doldrums... God just doesn't seem to want us to build right now.»