Sentences with phrase «more established church»

The pregnancy was overshadowed by all the upset at church with the pastor leaving and the church splitting, and although we did go back for a short while when they had a new pastor, we moved to a more established church afterwards.

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The reason for using a church building to start, is that it keeps from requiring more financing upfront, before the business is established.

This is all the more satisfying a ratification because Connelly is so conscientious in establishing his own personal antagonism toward the Catholic Church (at one point asserting without even a footnote that natural family planning «still fails most couples who try it»).

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

They are more like religious believers under compulsion in a society with an established church than like believers simply denied the freedom to exercise their religion.

Why then is it so hard and almost never coming for those who sit in a hierarchy that Jesus never established (Luke 22:24 - 26) and who also set up «litmus tests» for excommunicating «heretics» (subtly administered in the following way»... maybe it would be better if you would find yourself a church that believes more like you do...») to repent and change the order of their churches?

Not one country had been spared these ravages in one manner or another and it was only when a relative peace between the Church and the world was established towards the end of the 19th century that the Church could begin once more to reconstruct its intellectual and physical structures.

From 1607 until 1789 Protestant churches were more often than not legally established, and after disestablishment they were reestablished in custom, mores, ethos and clout — and remained so when Silcox and Fisher wrote and continued so symbolically until the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.

A lot of the planters and pastors I talk to think that involvement in global missions is something that has to wait until the church is more established, but shouldn't international missions be part of a church's DNA from day one?

Whatever the immediate problems of 1967 — and they were terribly urgent — Jews profit more from the frightful mess of Protestantism than if it were the official or unofficial established church or, worse, a single political bloc.

When the American Revolution was completed, not only had the Established Church of England been rejected, but, more important, the very idea of Establishment had been discarded in principle by the new Constitution.

But apart from these there is also the fact that the Church in much of the traditionally Christian world is still on the way from being an established Church (that is, a social institution to which all more or less belong) to a Church of personal faith in a pluralistic society.

More recently some liberal church leaders in Canada have established the Snowstar Institute.

For up to now the individual Christian has established a social relation with the Church more or less exclusively through the territorial parish, which is an administrative section of the diocese.

In the United States the Federal Council of Churches» office to help non-Aryan Christians, established in the early 1930s, was more generously funded by the United Jewish Appeal than by member cChurches» office to help non-Aryan Christians, established in the early 1930s, was more generously funded by the United Jewish Appeal than by member churcheschurches.

Pulling crabgrass in the backyard, weekending at a cabin in the mountains, watching televised NFL football games — these offered themselves as activities more harmonious with the established rhythm of life than attending church.

Building on the Catholic emphasis on the importance of free marital consent, Luther and Calvin developed further the covenantal understanding of marital commitment, elevated the status of women, emphasized the freedom of young adults to choose their partners, helped make marriage more compassionate and established marriage as a civic institution regulated by secular law yet also blessed and given meaning by the church.

I know that the decisions of the ecumenical councils with regard to Christ's person were sincerely meant to translate the received testimony of the primitive church into the more universal, established, and highly nuanced philosophic language of the period.

If the day of the formally established church ever ends once and for all, then transnational religious movements may be increasingly valued and supported and perhaps can be more effective as peace agents if they remain institutionally poor and weak.

In fact, a vaguely conscious English person of 2016 probably associates the Established Church much more with sex than with God.

While theology advanced from the positions established by Paul and John, the form and language of the Church's worship adhered more closely to the forms of the kerygma.

A summary treatment of the subject, like the chapter on the Song of Songs in Jean Danielou's The Bible and the Liturgy, with its wealth of citations from the early Church, would establish his point even more convincingly.

Marx rarely misses the opportunity to vent his sarcasm at the self - seeking of the religious institutions as when he notes in Capital that «the English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

Bozarth - Campbell's framework provides a basis for discussing how the rendering of Paul's letter by a trusted emissary established a new, more powerful Pauline presence in the Corinthian church.

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

So profound and real was this spirit, so much more powerful than anything humankind could establish, so highly personal in its impact, that the early church was convinced that here, in this enthusiasm of which its members were so conscious, was an operation of the Spirit of whom the prophets had spoken in the older Israel.

The church, as he described it, is more like the established churches of Europe.

In the lead, once again, was the National Council of Churches (NCC), which established a Burned Churches Fund that has reportedly taken in more than ten million dollars and is still counting.

«More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»

If this arrangement had been established twenty years ago, as some public interest and church groups urged, today we would have much more diverse programming on cable.

And it is even more natural and reasonable for someone in religious community A to invite people in religious community B who do not believe the teachings of B but do believe the teachings of A to leave B and join A. That, it seems to me, is precisely what Pope Benedict did in establishing the ordinariate for Anglicans who wish to join the Catholic Church while retaining certain aspects of their Anglican heritage.

The Jesus of the postpatriarchal church would more likely be the central figure in a community of Jewish women and men who participated in a new style of life together, one that profoundly threatened the established patriarchal powers of both Jews and Romans.

I work with more than one mission agency that has a history of sending workers to minster alongside established churches in other countries.

The views of their delegates have often challenged the more conservative outlook of representatives of the churches from Europe and North America, for example in persuading the WCC to establish the Fund to Combat Racism.

It is possible, therefore, that some of the paid - time religious broadcasters may show signs of becoming more «established,» consolidating basic identities and service functions in order to maintain their audiences similar to an extended congregation, withdrawing their programs from areas that are no longer profitable, and developing as extended independent church organizations in line with their particular theological emphases.

More emphasized that the church was established before the Gospels were written and it was the church that fixed the Canon of the scripture without denying humanism and the rights of critical reason.

In actuality, this situation is actually just as, if not more, radical in countries without established Church / theocratic christian government, so the thesis is not correct.

He recalled with pain how the state, under the military regime in 1975, «forcibly» took over 106 Catholic primary schools with seven secondary schools and one technical school without compensation, adding that the new tax was unnecessary, more so that new schools established by the Church had been paying various levies and taxes demanded by both local and state governments.

Card, who has expressed his views about homosexuality in more detail than can be summarized in a sound bite, has, for years, bristled at accusations that he is a homophobe, establishing his views about homosexuality in the context of his faith as member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, a faith, like those of Catholics, that deems the practice of homosexuality as a sin.

His protagonist is Toller (Ethan Hawke), an emotionally bereft, alcoholic pastor who preaches at First Reformed, a historic upstate New York church (established in 1767, it was once a stop on the Underground Railroad) more popular as a tourist destination than a place of worship.

An impressive shot establishing Pumpkinhead as he strides into the skeleton of an old, broken - down church in blue half - light suggests more than the triumph of practical effects on a low budget and tight shooting schedule: it suggests that the film's simplicity could — should — be read as pagan folktale, complete with cautionary spiel, brutal exposition, and a surprisingly strong moral grounding.

By establishing more or less permanent communities (reserves) and forcing Indigenous children to attend church - run schools (residential schools), colonial and federal governments began the long process of assimilating Indigenous peoples.

USA & International About Blog Orphan's Promise comes alongside orphanages, churches, and ministries already established in very poor areas maximizing the opportunity to help even more abandoned and abused children.

After your program is well established, the pastor can delegate more responsibility for recruiting to experienced sponsor couples and other church staff.