"Nondenominational" means something that does not belong to or identify with any particular religious group or denomination. It is a term used to describe things that are not associated with a specific religion or its beliefs.
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The rise of
nondenominational churches, for example, means that fewer pastors are required to hold a seminary degree, as CT Pastors has reported, though they may still want some level of theological study or formation.
The Morristown, New Jersey - based
nondenominational Christian church claims to collect $ 30,000 in weekly offerings from its three congregations, which gather at hotel facilities in Morristown and New Brunswick, and at a middle school in Nutley.
Also agreeing were 47 percent within the Assemblies of God, 55 percent within
nondenominational evangelical churches, 56 percent within the Southern Baptist Convention, 57 percent within the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, and 59 percent within the Presbyterian Church in America.
They are the same people who fight
nondenominational prayers in public schools, the use of public school facilities for meetings of high school religious - interest groups, and state support of private schools.
Plans are being made for a Greek Orthodox church, an Anglican church, a Coptic church, and a church for Christian traditions from India, which will also include a space
for nondenominational worship.
Bishop Jakes, who heads the Dallas -
based nondenominational church the Potter's House and is the host of a weekly broadcast on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, appears in the film in two modes as a charismatic preacher performing before an enraptured audience, and as a quiet, compassionate confessor, whose deep, rumbling voice seems to provide a kind of aural absolution for the troubled Michelle.
The Court also ruled that separation forbids the government from favoring «religion» over «nonreligion» (Epperson v. Arkansas [1968]-RRB-, meaning that even
nondenominational support for religion was constitutionally suspect.
Nor, contrary to Rabbi Petuchowski's views, is it a proper function of government under our Constitution to compose or to sponsor prayers (
even nondenominational prayers) for American school children to recite.
Moreover, the religion shown in such public exercises was not just «religion in general,» but quite distinctively Protestant Christianity, albeit, typically, in a
fairly nondenominational form.
Research shows 1 in 6 US Christians changed their religious affiliation over a four - year span,
with nondenominational worshipers leading the way.
The first such amendments were enacted in the late 19th century, when the public schools functioned as de
facto nondenominational Protestant schools.
This girl has her logic screwed up, if she doesn't believe in the teaching of the Catholic Church why does she cling on, she should just leave and join the rest of the «pick n choose» catholics down the street at the
mega nondenominational entertainment no authority church.
Mourdock has been an active member of Christian Fellowship Church in Evansville, Indiana, for nearly two decades, according to Mike Deeg, the executive pastor of the 2,000 - plus
member nondenominational evangelical church.
More significant in the long run, however, may be the second way evangelicals have been reacting, through the support of
nondenominational parachurch organizations engaged in overseas mission.
It is the first half of Managing Editor Linda - Marie Delloff's two - part treatment of the magazine's earliest years under Charles Clayton Morrison, the editor who changed the journal from a Disciples of Christ publication to a broad - based
nondenominational magazine.
In turning
from nondenominational civil religion to particular religious movements, the author describes contemporary «gospels» of wealth, relativism, cynicism, and partisan politics as new departures from an otherwise orthodox past.
In its formative years during the 1940's,
nondenominational tolerance of Christian diversity was highly prized in this university town and the congregation thrived.
Young faces from North America and Australia are offering assistance to the many Southern Baptist, independent Presbyterian and
nondenominational congregations that make up the conservative right here.
Providers who do wish to include Christian ethical teachings are quick to point out the absence of printed curricular resources giving an
adequate nondenominational, age - appropriate basis for such work.
It is
nondenominational yet conservative Reformed in doctrine, holding to God's eternal election of some to blessedness and some to perdition.
(The two national,
nondenominational clinical training groups are The Council for Clinical Training, Inc. (475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York) and The Institute of Pastoral Care (P. O. Box 57, Worcester 1, Massachusetts).
The future is less mainline denominations or flat evangelical denominations, and
more nondenominational evangelical networks.
This heavily lay - led movement tends to gravitate
toward nondenominational, house church models disconnected from a larger body, both in terms of support and accountability.
Many observers have pointed out the apocalyptic language sprinkled through Bush's speeches to appeal to his Christian fundamentalist base while appearing
acceptably nondenominational to the rest of us.
From 1919 to 1922 the Century
became nondenominational and assumed a role as a leading forum for the expression of social - gospel positions.
He also refers to himself not as a «Protestant» but as a «Christian» (or an «evangelical»), an umbrella term that, according to Mexican Protestants, covers followers of Christ ranging from Pentecostals to Presbyterians to
various nondenominational gatherings but excludes Catholics, Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
The «Christian» colleges, in many
cases nondenominational or affiliated with one of the smaller conservative or Pentecostal denominations, tend to be parachurch or sectarian in outlook and atmosphere.
Its welcoming calm and
nondenominational culture are in stark contrast to the emotional debate over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque two blocks from ground zero in New York City, where planes flown by al Qaeda hijackers destroyed the World Trade Center, killing more than 2,700 people.
A deeper question raised by the Mars Hill saga asks
if nondenominational churches can better govern their congregation and disciple their pastors with elders drawn from within the church body, or if they should seek outside expertise.
The Episcopal Center for Children is a private nonprofit,
nondenominational day treatment facility for emotionally troubled children and their families from the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.
Dyer's philosophy combined New Thought self - actualization theory and
nondenominational spirituality; he was one of my personal greatest influences and will be dearly missed.
«Some people call it going from high tech to high touch,» said Valerie Maholmes, a member of the psychology staff at Yale University who runs the singles ministry at the Prayer
Tabernacle nondenominational church in Bridgeport, Conn..
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