Sentences with phrase «membership in a church»

And while he hasn't flip - flopped on his membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, he has been loathe even to mention it in public.

He has not been asked to abandon membership in the church.

Membership in the Church appeared to be a political and social necessity.

Baptism was the normal, if not the indispensable, condition of membership in the church, (I Corinthians 12:13; Galatians 3:27; Acts 2:37 - 38; etc.) and so magical an efficacy did some ascribe to it that, at least in Corinth, there were baptisms on behalf of the dead.

The means for this are membership in a church community and full use of the means of grace.

As Christianity was God's gift to his own people, and as the Mormons were that people, so membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints became the new covenant sign.

In the 1943 encyclical Mystici Corporis Christi (On the Mystical Body of Christ), Pius XII addressed the meaning of membership in the Church, but, as Cardinal Dulles writes, Vatican II took a somewhat different approach.

In this way, the church separates membership in the church, the New Israel.

For the mystic, Troeltsch said, membership in church or sect is of no significance — it is the free personal experience that matters.

that faith in and acceptance of Jesus as the Christ was the basis of membership in the church» (pp. 321).

No, it is EMINENTLY practical, from a social standpoint, to claim membership in the church.

For such converts, even during peaceful times, membership in the church meant loss of family and property and other civil rights.

In the early Church the symbolism was applied to the individual as an image of his or her membership in the Church and union with Christ, common to all Christians.

Moreover, many of those who have no formal membership in the Church are actually more inside the real circle of the tolerant faith that Jesus spoke of than those of us who have been baptized and participate bodily in the worship of the Church.

And so it is possible for us to remain in some sense outside the faith, even in the midst of our membership in the Church that proclaims the bold and inclusive message of God's reign.

Second, there is the need to instruct candidates for membership in the church.

It centers, in the presentation of Jesus Christ (encounter with him) and the response of faith (commitment to him and responsible membership in his Church).

Romney has struggled to win over many social conservatives who felt that his past positions on social issues were too liberal and many evangelicals who raised theological concerns over Romney's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

At the time of the study, three - quarters of the twenty thousand parishes in the country had an RCIA program of nine months or more to prepare adults for membership in the Church.

I have mentioned the variety of membership in the church — activists and contemplatives, rich and poor, old and young, black and white and yellow, morally concerned and aesthetically sensitive — all are included.

It is quite another matter, however, to accept membership in the Church historic, for this means sharing in the Church which witnesses in the New Testament and to which the New Testament witnesses.

I am not asking that we believe this; I am asking whether we do not already believe it, whether this belief is not implicit in the fact of membership in the church of Christ.

Membership in a church «family» can become idolatrous if a congregation includes only people who are socially comfortable with one another.

Secondly, our membership in the Church must be accepted.

If baptism means membership in the Church universal, it may more properly belong to that time in life when a profession of faith in Jesus Christ is possible.

The spiritual well - being of Christians depends on membership in the church, not membership in a family.

Or again membership in the Church is widely regarded primarily as a matter of participation in institutional forms and actions, less frequently as engagement in common thought, common devotion and worship, common appreciations.

Our faith, our worship, and our life are all knit together in the fact of our Christian membership in the Church which is the Body of Christ; they are all part of our total response to the revelation of God in Christ and so they play, each one of them, an indispensable part in our movement of return to the God who is our Creator.

Our faith, our worship, and our life are all knit together in the fact of our Christian membership in the Church.

In other words, to state it negatively [in my own words], membership in the church is not predicated on a person's meeting of certain physical and psychological conditions extraneous to the foundational confession of faith; and no - one is barred a priori from consideration for ordered ministry who is a member of the church.

In a brief survey I conducted in some areas in Kerala I came to know that several of them, while retaining a nominal membership in the Church, were committed to the Communist parties in their struggle for social and economic justice.

«As church leaders, you may be approached by your local or national media outlets to make comments on Dr. Carson's candidacy, in particular as it relates to his membership in the church,» read a statement posted by the Adventist Review.

In the early days of the Christian church, Christians used the letter X as a secret symbol to indicate their membership in the church to others.

Instead of measuring just the structure of social networks (who knows whom), marital status or membership in church or community groups, the functional social network index also measures social networks as a source of emotional and practical support from friends and relatives, as well as advice about weight management and physical activity.

Not exact matches

If you need divine guidance on which way to vote in the forthcoming U.K. referendum on European Union (EU) membership, the Church of England has released a prayer to help that could help you decide.

Significantly, however, the liberal mainline Protestant churches, which had grown to resemble and imitate the surrounding secular society, have declined in membership while growth continues in the evangelical and Catholic churches that have created communities of deeply shared meaning.

«we should not criticize churches when they maintain standards for membership in accord with their beliefs.

Has this created another situation in which the WCC will refuse to speak forcibly on behalf of persecuted Christians because of the membership of government - approved church leaders from a Communist country?

FYI «For [tax] reason [s], membership in the Catholic or Protestant (evangelische) Church is officially registered.

Maybe you didn't get the memo: The «inclusive» churches are in huge membership decline, have been for 50 years, still hemorrhaging today.

West Western churches became guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church

Church membership increased dramatically, particularly among Methodists and Baptists, whose belief in the possibility of moral perfection generated renewed interest in national morality.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

And we are comfortable with Obama and his 20 year membership in Reverend Wright's «church»?

Even as they sound the trumpet for battle, many conservatives acknowledge that theirs is a holding action, and that the 1997 General Convention may force a decision about continuing membership in the Episcopal Church.

This is not because there were not any who were worthy, it was because the church membership resided largely in the US and has only recently begun to be a worldwide church.

The late 1980s merger of the old American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran Church in America (LCA), and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC, a much smaller body that broke earlier with the Lutheran Church» Missouri Synod) resulted in an organization of 5.3 million members that has been producing red ink, membership losses, and general demoralization since its start.

If millennials are only looking for alignment between their social views and the church, why is membership falling in liberal churches as well?

I Am a Church Member appears to be intended for «Church Membership» classes in local churches.

He has never been one to make the Church feel secure in his membership, and he's not short of a few expletives or shy to be caught with a bottle of Jack Daniels in his hand.