Sentences with phrase «not establish the church»

Preparation for the Establishment of the Church (16:13 - 18:35) Technically speaking, Jesus did not establish the church.

The founding fathers did intend that the state would not establish a church — they never came up with rules disqualifying people from voting based on their religion.

God did not establish any church so what god has established yours.

Why couldn't you establish a church today based on this model?

What is your reaction to the statement, «Jesus did not establish the church»?

Member of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group Nia Griffith MP offered a detailed contribution on why the Church of England is not the established Church of the United Kingdom.

Not exact matches

It has gone so far as to call into question the criterion established in Familiaris consortio, which in number 84 says: «The Church reaffirms her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not admitting to Eucharistic Communion divorced persons who have remarried.

I don't really care what the purpose of establishing the church is.

By establishing a ministry that fosters excellence in the arts and gives community members a chance to engage in the arts, you can not only connect with people who might never darken the door of a church, but you can also create art that glorifies God and is truly inspirational.

valerie, Jesus established the CHRISTIAN church, not the catholic church.

Mormons believe their church (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterchurch (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) to be a continuation of the Church Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterChurch Jesus established during his mortal ministry, Joseph Smith simply (although it was not simple) restored the church in these latterchurch in these latter days.

Why can't you just pastor an established church?»

Lord Carlile emphasised that the review was not to establish the truth of Carol's claims, but only to investigate the Church's handling of the case and establish best practice for handling future complaints.

This was done in a nation with a strong established church, so that the freedom enabled by religious toleration at its origins was a freedom of private worship and belief for dissenters, but not quite a freedom of common action in the public square.

Saul of Tarsus was not just some ordinary person he was a Roman citizen, educated by the finest scholars of his day, a zealot for the Jews and you want to make believe he fell for myth, Jesus who his fellow Sanhedrin leaders hated and crucified was a myth, Saul was dispatched to kill those who believed in a myth, Saul witnessed Stephen filled with the Holy Spirit and stood by as Stephen was stoned to death over a myth, Saul later called Paul established the church over a myth, Paul tortured and killed for refusing to reject a myth.

again there isnothing that is saying joining of church and state in praying during a metting... for it does not ESTABLISH that you have to believe in what they say..

It continued: «Apart from in the narrow constitutional sense that we continue to have an established Church, Britain is not a «Christian country».

''... the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves been a moral evil, it can not be supposed that the inspired Apostles... would have tolerated it for a moment in the Christian Church.

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?

Reformed churches through 1500's and 1600's: can't ultimately agree on doctrine and procedure; establish a number of denominations

The average church has so established itself organizationally and financially that God is simply not necessary to it.

The Holy See only established diplomatic relations with Burma in May, and the local Catholic Church had begged Francis not to create waves - and possible problems for them - by using the term.

If this principle is applied also to those who do not practice their faith, hence have no real relation to the community Church of faith, then the actual number of priests must, indeed, give the impression of a shortage, for there are not even enough priests for all the established parishes and Mass centres.

The Apostle Paul also talked about signs of the End Times - not to establish a calendar, but rather to comfort members of the church who thought death would deprive them of the opportunity to see Jesus» Second Coming.

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.

For example, if a teaching held that the Catholic Church had to be everywhere disestablished (proposition 55), it is not true to say that everywhere she should be an Established Church.

To speak of a «Church of the congregation» (Gemeindekirche), as distinct from the established Church (Volkskirche), is not unobjectionable.

We're about to witness firsthand what happens when the established Church compromises its moral authority for the promise of power, and it won't be pretty.

The Christian people suspect, and not always without reason, that because the Church's human law must be established by the authorities it is actually subject to the arbitrariness of the ministry and hence not really a law that would give the people a well - established position over against the decisions of the Pope or the entire episcopate.

Some group of clergy who met back in Nice on several occasions over 1500 years ago because they couldn't agree on the nature of God, and that was causing such a rift in the church established at the time that they had to put it to a vote to decide what doctorine to follow, and then ended up excommunicating anybody who didn't believe that man had the right to decide the true nature of God?

Generally, established churches are quick to shoot down new ideas with many reasons why something can not or should not be done.

Not surprisingly, some think they detect an effort to «democratize» the Church by establishing — somewhat along the lines of the Episcopal Church — a «house of delegates» composed of laity to balance the «house of bishops.»

It is a dangerous fallacy to establish the assumption that many churches don't care about others while implying that the disfunctional and corrupt government does.

They assume not only a settled ecclesiastical system in the Church, but also an established body of orthodox beliefs against which to judge heresy and, what is most significant, a collection of Christian Scriptures.

Here, I could understand how you might be describing the West as having «excommunicated Christ» in that Western thought has ideas like separation of Church and State and many tend to believe that government should not be informed by «the Church», thus leaving the working paradigm you establish.

After forty years of persecutions, the Church was in a markedly weak state when it faced the mountain of new tasks in the new society, and it was not able to establish its priorities and take advantage of its new possibilities.

He was well situated in the established church, but didn't feel quite at peace with himself, or with God, in such a position.

On the basis of new historical evidences available, it is possible to establish the fact that there was a Christian church in Edessa (Western Mesopotamia) in the first century, and not only there but also in other places in Mesopotamia.

The freedom of religion clause in the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing a state religion that all must be party to like it was in England (hince the Church of England) not to keep prayer out of anything the government has it's hands in.

While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

Today, however, on the basis of new historical evidences available, it is possible to establish the fact that there was indeed a Christian church in Edessa in the first century; not only in Edessa but also in other places in Mesopotamia.

United Methodist historian Franklin H. Littell reminds us that the great heresies of the early church came from the churches that were the most established, most complacent and most static, not from the church's growing edges where believers were busy evangelizing, organizing and building new disciple communities.

It was regarded with great suspicion, particularly when it dared to question established truth, and in the popular mind it could not be clearly distinguished from the practices of the magician, which were rightly frowned upon by the church.

But experiencing the self - revealing God is not simply a matter of looking at the scriptural and doctrinal boundaries laboriously established by the Church and its traditions.

We said no, because we don't see any point in denying well - established scientific findings that in no way deny anything the Church teaches.

It is not surprising, therefore, that a new form of university was established, geared to the service of a nation rather than the church.

When Anglican bishops from Nigeria announced that they were going to establish episcopal oversight for local churches that could not in conscience remain in the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori vigorously protested.

It was not, of course, as prominent as the Established Church of England, yet it was a respected force of which political leaders were obliged to take notice.