Sentences with phrase «large numbers of church»

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.

Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of large numbers of church people.

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.

As a result of the revivals a large number of churches were founded outside the officially recognized State - established congregations.

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.

Actually a large number of churches would run you out the door if you were not a paid up member, cash talks.

London has traditionally been Christian, and has a large number of churches, particularly in the City.

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.

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 congregaChurch 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 congregachurch 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.»