Sentences with phrase «national church»

Further, many national churches offer comprehensive and sophisticated programs of theological education by extension for lay leaders.

Many volunteers have helped supply national churches with badly needed physical resources and have been effective witnesses to their faith.

Most of these believers were extracted from their community and financially dependent on the small national church, heavily subsidized by foreigners.

About five years ago I asked a group of national church leaders in Rosario, Argentina, to tell me frankly if they still wanted North American missionaries to work in their country.

«National Churches Trust funding for new community facilities will help ensure that more churches and chapels can better serve local people.

The One People Commission, begun by the Evangelical Alliance in 2011, has also sought to bring together national church leaders of all ethnicities to work together across racial lines.

When Delaine and I took on our first assignment — in Argentina — we found an already well - established national church, with a publishing house, a seminary and other educational institutions run by capable administrators.

The subjects considered at national church meetings in the «80s and «90s exhibit a similar, though less extreme, pattern.

In addition to inhibiting the growth of national church structures, the generalized economic deprivation of blacks in America has contributed to the continued fragmentation of the Afro - American religious community.

He is treating this loose confederation of national Church bodies less like what it is, and more like a snotty country club.

Minority religions shouldn't favor building national churches because inevitably it won't be their gospel being preached.

Club 57, founded by polish émigré Stanley Strychacki with recent film school graduates Susan Hannaford and Tom Scully, was located in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church at 57 St. Mark's Place.

The secretary warned that «we can not afford to fragment into national churches.

Disciples of the social gospel still write challenging articles in liberal magazines; national church staffs sponsor conferences on the liberation...

The major recipients include the Atlanta Mission and Gateway Center, both of which battle homelessness, and National Church residences, a nonprofit that manages low - income housing for seniors.

They regularly attack national church activities and continue to build their coffers and secure recruits and staff.

He will be the highest - ranking national church leader arrested since the Cultural Revolution.»

Protestantism in particular could not surrender the claim to be a Volkskirche, a true national church and the spiritual custodian of the German people.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

During the trauma of Nazi occupation and the subsequent confinement of the Czech national spirit within Marxist - Leninist ideology, little was heard from the Czech National Church.

Will they allow Moscow Patriarchate parishes to continue their work, or will they try to force them into a new Ukrainian national church?

Eastern Orthodox Christians come from «autocephalous» national churches deeply interwoven with local traditions.

The results from the latest National Church and Social Action Survey show that as many as 1.4 million volunteers participated in UK church - based social...

They should establish their own National Churches and cut off any connection with the Vatican.

«Our joy is beyond words,» Simon Pandey, general secretary of National Churches Fellowship of Nepal (NCFN), told CT..

But Francis has made a point of not intervening to support national Churches in their local political struggles.

National churches like the Church of England and other mainline Protestant denominations are losing ground in a world where nationality and culture are becoming increasingly flexible in the lives of most people.

Nonetheless, the fear of mission board executives that growing numbers of enthusiastic but poorly prepared volunteers would undo some of the self - sufficiency that had been developed in national churches over the years is not completely unfounded.

However, much of the funding that used to be channeled to national churches through mission boards is now being spent by local churches and judicatories on their own hands - on mission projects.

Even the old national churches have failed to teach significant numbers of their congregants Armenian, Polish, Russian or Latvian.

These boards are also aware of the dependency that still confronts national church leaders as well as congregations.

research on national churches in the twentieth century United Kingdom.

Although Scotland and England have been in a union for over 300 years, they have never merged completely: there have always been separate Scottish institutions, a different national church, a different legal system, different administration of government and now a Scottish Parliament dealing with the majority of domestic Scottish affairs.

What they show is a church established by national law that has long ceased to be a truly national church.

Before she was a lawyer, Lorraine worked for various national church and Aboriginal organizations on Aboriginal rights and environmental issues.

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Disciples of the social gospel still write challenging articles in liberal magazines; national church staffs sponsor conferences on the liberation of the oppressed; seminaries buzz with talk of social justice.

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Had the civil monarchs early scored a complete victory, in Western Christendom the Church would have been divided into many national churches and Christianity would have been fully subordinated to secular interests.

To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.

As Professor Greene has warned, «Minority religions shouldn't favor building national churches, because inevitably it won't be their gospel being preached.»

The independence and autonomy of national churches are now the reality with which Western agencies deal throughout the Third World.

Finally, with people talking these days about the growing isolation of seminaries from larger religious contexts, such as denominations, I wonder if some new structure needs to take shape that relates seminaries to local and national church leaders.

If you look at the «establishment» clause, it was meant to prohibit a national church.