Sentences with phrase «mainline denominations»

Many black churches are religiously traditional, but the theological disagreements they have with mainline denominations rarely cause problems within community organizations.

Many from mainline denominations get frustrated when they see the urgency with which evangelicals try to reach people.

More and more mainline denominations are moving toward that three percent.

For mainline denominations, there's a certain level of desperation needed.

And they scored almost as high as mainline denominations in service.

They could not see a way to be all those things within mainline denominations.

How will mainline denominations need to go about this kind of change?

On the social - action agenda of mainline denominations today are sexual - justice issues regarding gender and sexual orientation.

The leadership has engaged in cautious but creative dialogue with several mainline denominations.

I speak from my own experience, because, while there is much I love and appreciate about mainline denominations, when I visit, I always leave feeling like something's missing.

And the people inviting us in are Christian groups — clergy conferences, yes, but also congregations of mainline denominations.

The study pointed out that «none» needn't necessarily mean «atheist» as much as it implies a dissatisfaction with mainline denominations.

This condition is one factor behind the steady decay of purpose and the decline in identity among mainline denominations: The second volume of the United Methodist Church's «Into Our Third Century» series argues that the denomination's most pressing need as it approaches its bicentennial in 1984 is «to develop a clear sense of purpose and identity for its life and work.»

The UMC has voted to maintain the denomination's ban on same - sex unions and non-celibate clergy for more than four decades, despite the movement of other mainline denominations to open the doors to the full participation of gay members.

Woodward concludes: «I have spent time on the Protestant experience because I want to indicate not only what is happening among our Christian brethren but also to suggest that the loosening of this dynamic tension may be one reason why mainline denominations are in such dire straits.

In many ways the pattern of UU membership resembles that of the large mainline denominations.

Many charismatics began to leave mainline denominations (particuarly in the United States and Canada) and independent charismatic churches began to arise (and, that led to a mix of results).

Some denominations adopted guidelines (like the Methodists), but most of those movements declined as mainline denominations moved leftward theologically.

They are visible in the great divide between mainline denominations, and fundamentalist and conservative evangelical churches — what one of my colleagues calls, I think non-pejoratively, the «fundangelicals».

Both sides, however, have been coming to a growing appreciation of each other's concerns, with mainline denominations placing more emphasis on biblical hermeneutics and theological conservatives sounding the call to contextualize theology.

And mainline denominations teach this as well, so who is this «some» that thinks the only way to know God is through the church?

Also informing many of the essays is a recognition of the organizational effects of the pluralism that has come to characterize mainline denominations.

Someday the Jews will inherit all of the land God gave them - much to the disdain of the world - including some very surprised mainline denominations (who tried to forcibly give it to the «palestinians».

I've been speaking at many small colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.

Carpenter emphasizes fundamentalists» commitment to foreign missions, noting that as mainline denominations retrenched or withdrew from mission work, the number of fundamentalist missionaries multiplied.

The task is being carried out by four working groups, representing the Protestant mainline denominations, evangelicals, Roman Catholics and the university - related divinity schools.

Few, if any, mainline denominations utilize the film, partly because Campus Crusade officials prefer to work with theologically compatible partners.

It was a surprise for me that, when I left a liberal - progressive mainline denomination and became Orthodox, my scope of ministry in the church became much larger.

The other motif, the one that I believe will come to dominate mainline denominations, might be called «meaningful vocation.»

The emphasis on the Baptism (or filling) of the Holy Spirit and charismatic gifts began to spread quickly through mainline denominations throughout the 1960s and 70s.

The future is less mainline denominations or flat evangelical denominations, and more nondenominational evangelical networks.

The larger, established, mainline denominations generally held the view that broadcasters should provide time on the air for a balanced presentation of religious views, roughly representing the proportion of various religious groups in the community, even if this required stations to supply the time without charge, and that this was consistent with the understandings reached between Congress and the broadcasters when the allocation of nonprofit stations was defeated.

For example, while the percentage of adults with undeveloped faith in mainline denominations ranged between 33 percent (UMC) and 47 percent (ELCA), it drops to 23 percent among Southern Baptists.

Let us imagine a (probable) near - future world in which Christian numbers are strongly concentrated in the global South, where the clergy and scholars of the world's most populous churches accept interpretations of the Bible more conservative than those normally prevailing in American mainline denominations.

A lingering distrust of the «institutional church» has made partnership with mainline denominations difficult.

Those schools that are connected to mainline denominations tend to be influenced only vaguely by Christianity.

Berger describes how the mainline Protestant churches have continued to be the home - of - choice for the middle class, but how this cultural captivity is also one of the reasons for the decline of these same mainline denominations.

Unfortunately, a number of mainline denominations persist in trying to mimic these electronic evangelists, in their objectives if not their precise techniques.

One benefit, unseen a decade ago when boomers began returning to seminaries, was the impact they would have on shrinking mainline denominations.

Their book may not turn card - carrying members of mainline denominations into Evangelicals, but it might begin to make them «wise as serpents.»

This has long been true of the creedally vague mainline denominations, but it is surprisingly noticeable among the professedly more defined conservative ones.