Sentences with phrase «more high church»

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

Not exact matches

Instead, it is in the control of a higher power that cruelly takes the lives of tens of thousands of Americans every year — and this ideology becomes even more absurd when you consider that we are supposed to have a separation of church and state.

But for these people in the linoleum - floored church meeting room, the stakes are higher and more pressing.

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

«To dismiss the attention due the Church's written instruction as listening to a dusty document, Mankowski writes, «is more the language of a high school manifesto than an episcopal council, and is especially perverse given the purpose and history of the magisterial office.»

A church in Argentina has been given the highest level of security the country can provide, because of... More

The highest ranking Catholic in the Philippines has told church members they must have absolutely nothing... More

1 more time, WHY ARE THERE NO BLACKS IN THE HIGHEST POSITIONS OF THE CHURCH?????? ITS 2012 ALMOST.

There is so much more to high church traditions — it is so variegated and there is so much more any sincere follower can do in those traditions.

The precious wall of separation between church and state was rebuilt higher and more solid than ever.

No price is too high for the single soul, and a lot more goes on in the typical church than just seeking conversions.

After decades of hearing messages from high church officials that lesbian and gay people were a threat to humanity and a danger to children, I had to rub my eyes a few times to make sure that I was reading this new, more positive language correctly.

And from this it is becoming ever more clear that the saving of many Jews was not only permitted but also co-ordinated by the highest leadership of the Church.

It's more important than any commitment to absolute truth or a particular hermeneutic or a «high view» (read: «my view») of sovereignty or the Bible or faith or the Church.

Rev. Adam Hamilton, senior pastor at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Kansas, said Americans should «more often» give thanks to Obama and those who serve in higher elected office.

What the early Christian believers and writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more than any of these categories could convey.

The author contrasts an ancient abbey with its traditions, history and rootedness, to the modern American megachurch without tradition, culture or weighted worship, to an ecological sound, modern, high - tech, all thought out community but where the state church seems of little consequence, yet in this latter place the gospel seemed to make more sense.

Furthermore, if you get a job, but the pay is not comparable to what you were getting in the church, the church should consider supplementing your income while you gain more experience and knowledge and works your way up to a higher salary.

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

The higher ranking the official in the church, the more money they make and the more power they have.

A church bus carrying dozens of high school students and adults has crashed near Atlanta, killing one... More

they can be more moral than you are the italian mafia were and are some of the largest donors to the catholic church ~ certianily no morality there all the «christian» preachers who sodomize young men, cavort with wh0res, steal all the manna ~ high morals because they are forgiven ~ again and again and again and again... ad naseumn....

In words that are even more true today than when they were written 88 years ago, the editor declared that «it is not primarily members of the visible Church that are to be sought, but true disciples of CHRIST and servants of the most high God.»

Previous Pew Research Center studies found that Hispanic Christians attend church more regularly than their white counterparts, and black Protestants are retaining young churchgoers at higher rates than any other group.

Take them one at a time, spending as much time as you need to discuss thoroughly the issues and feelings that arise: «The ideas and issues which excite me most are...;» «The things that are most worth living for right now are...;» «I feel the most joy (pain, hope, lonely, together) when...;» «What I really believe about God is...;» «I feel closest to (most distant from) God when...;» «I get spiritually high when...;» «The beliefs that mean the most to me now are...;» «The beliefs from my childhood which no longer make sense are...;» «Life has the least (the most) meaning for me when...;» «I feel closest to you (most distant from you) spiritually when...;» «The way I really feel about the church is...;» «I'd like to do the following, to enjoy more spiritual sharing...;» «To enrich the spiritual life of our family, I'd like to..

Those with a master's degree or higher are also significantly more likely to say they value Pope Francis» opinions on theological matters (49 %) and the pope improves their opinion of the Catholic Church (43 %).

Those in the spiritual - but - not - religious camp are peddling the notion that by being independent - by choosing an «individual relationship» to some concept of «higher power», energy, oneness or something - or - other - they are in a deeper, more profound relationship than one that is coerced via a large institution like a church.

I think if there were more women in the higher levels of church clergy, then priests who molested little boys might not have got away with it so easily.

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).

There, a price is exacted from those in the church, and that price is higher the more deeply one is involved: it is one thing to attend church, another to be baptized, and still another to commune at the Table of the Lord regularly.

While the Evangelicals» concern for the social problems of their day was mainly practical and philanthropic, trying to effect change through Acts of Parliament and by giving relief to those in need, the response of the Church of England's High Church party, known as the Tractarians or Oxford Movement, was more theological.

Furthermore, as more and more young adults delay marriage until their late twenties or early thirties, the Church has the opportunity to reclaim its once high esteem for singleness and the contribution of singles — including single parents — to the Kingdom.

Even though over 60 percent of Americans are church members and more than half of them are Protestants and over 55 percent of the population generally say that religion is «very important» in their lives, very few people seem to think that religion is «very important» for higher education.

Obedience is pretty high on God's agenda, more so than sacrifice and as I have stated earlier I believe women can give God the obedience He wants from our church at this present time.

Posted on the church's website, his official statement reads: «As a college student on staff at a church in Texas more than 20 years ago, I regretfully had a sexual incident with a female high school senior in the church.

All through high school, he remained involved in ministry, even though the older he got, the more church culture — particularly the attitude of some leaders — began to rub him the wrong way.

On average in a small church the attendance at worship represents a much higher percentage of the membership, the stewardship is better per member, the instruction is in smaller groups and may therefore be more effective, and leadership development is much better because there isn't pressure to function on a «professional» level.

Students attracted to church music in the «90s will find the prospects of employment excellent — a simple case of more churches chasing fewer graduates and offering higher salaries.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

It means better church schools and Christian schools of higher learning so that the heritage of our faith may be passed on more fully and vitally to oncoming generations and so that adults may understand more accurately the foundations of their faith.

The fact of the matter is that the Church should spend more time protesting the higher costs of insurance, the higher costs of higher education, the inequities in K - 12 education, demand that physical and mental abuses stop, and let GOD be the judge of a woman's right to care for her own body... On a theological note... where in the Apostle's Creed (summary of catholic doctrine) does it mention anything about contraception anyway?

The more involved white evangelicals are with their churches, the more likely they voted for Trump, with women who attend church more than once a week showing slightly higher level of support (87.5 %) than men (85 %).

The sexual temptations that the Church says «No» to are the implications of a higher, nobler, more compelling «Yes» — yes to the integrity of love, yes to love understood as the gift of oneself to another, yes to the family as the fruit of love, and yes to the family as the school where we first learn to love.

For even the historical reality of the Church at its highest and best has no more than penultimate status.

It has created the anomaly where programs considered to be «evangelical» in content appear more frequently in areas already high in religious interest, commitment, and activity: on Sunday mornings, in geographical areas of already high church attendance, and on stations recognized as being «religious» in content and format.

A study by LifeWay Research reveals that «more than two - thirds of young adults who attend a Protestant church for at least a year in high school will stop attending church...

A more remote motel, retreat center, or church camp has certain advantages — advantages which may offset the usually higher costs.