Sentences with phrase «main body of the church»

Brown observes that the main body of the church was made up of «middling persons» who were not wealthy but who made modest but steady contributions to the church's support of the poor.

These constituted the main body of the church.

But they have not succeeded in taking the main body of the churches with them.

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I think my main concern was that Rainer seems to ignore or pass over the importance of being committed to the «Body of Christ» and emphasizes instead the importance of committing to a local «church group.»

These twin factors converge in passages that picture the church as a Body, and so in the minds of many, the Body is the main image for the church.

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.

I've recently finished fifteen years outside the Church, being detoxed from all the paraphenalia and the religiosity, and one of the main things I have learned is that people * outside * the Church seem to know more about the faults of said body of people, than the Church people themselves.

David Anderson, director of faith formation, says the main focus is the «wholeness of the church as the body of Christ.»