Sentences with phrase «number of church members»

Pastor Stan Weatherford told WLBT TV in Jackson he was surprised when a small number of church members opposed holding the wedding at the church.

Of course, it is still possible to present impressive census figures showing that the number of church members in this country is the largest in relation to the total population that it has ever been, (There are now 67,327,7 l9 church members in the United States of America according to the Yearbook of the Churches) but these figures are not convincing.

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Significant numbers of women clergy now see opposition to their intellectual positions as ineradicably linked to right - wing Christianity or as inextricably tied to a backlash on the part of white male members in the church.

Here's the thing — you can find any number of Stepford-esque church members who will attest that they and the folks they know are «just good people», etc. (and I, too, know many very pleasant and admirable Mormons), but that doesn't address the creepy facts related to the administration of the overall organization (which is by no means a true non-profit, BTW).

And considering the number of supposed wives of Joseph Smith and children, not a single direct decendent of Joseph Smith was ever a member of the Mormon Church.

On the other hand, another Barna - affiliated organization called the ACFI reported that the number of churches that equip their members for evangelism is in decline.

Delegates were happy with the success of «Harvest «90,» an outreach program that had aimed at adding 2 million members to the church during 1985 - 1990 and surpassed that number by 500,000, bringing the membership worldwide to 6.4 million.

These days number of members in churches are dwindling....

Evangelical churches that frequently support conservative candidates are finally admitting something the rest of us have known for some time: Their young adult members are abandoning church in significant numbers and taking their voting power with them.

Members of the core community were given business cards imprinted with a map to the community center, the church address, phone number and Web site.

Indeed, while the LWF considers itself a communion, a number of member churches have broken fellowship with other member churches in recent years.

And ever - increasing numbers of converts made in foreign lands by that portion of the church's 25,300 - member full - time missionary staff stationed outside the U.S. seem to many Mormons to presage a time when their church will be the church universal.

The average church in America is from 70 - 100 members and in most churches, the number of people who pay the bills is around 20 % of that.

It also employs a legal staff, oversees Baptist Press, and maintains information on Southern Baptist churches: location, number of members, yearly baptism records, etc..

I can't imagine anyone on a mission trip withholding medical care until the patient first hears a sermon or is coerced into making a (false) profession of faith so that the missionary can notch his belt with the number of «souls saved», nor can I imagine that the missionary's home church receives any monetary benefit from this new member you imagine they have strong - armed into joining.

A number of denominations have taken seriously findings indicating that the ranks of inactive and lapsed church members are filled with persons who gave signals no one heeded that they were disenchanted with the church.

The conservative denominations, which have among the highest numbers of clergy per member, also have the highest proportions of employed clergy per church.

Despite the greater number of parishes in the Moscow Patriarchate, many polls suggest that the Kyivan Patriarchate has more members, but Orthodox churches keep no membership rolls, and many Ukrainians could not tell you the difference among any of the Eastern churches.

His team has continued to elaborate on the matrix, and Robyn Afrik (member of that team) has on her website a number of hallmarks that indicate where a church is on the journey of racial reconciliation!

From a limitless number of round clergymen and equally pudgy church members this verse has never stirred much response.

Members of the staff have participated in conferences of educators of the American Baptist Convention, the United Church of Canada, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Disciples of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. With the advice of denominational leaders and others they compiled a list of pastors regarded by their colleagues as «good ministers» and entered into correspondence with a number of them, chosen so as to make the whole group representative of the denominational pattern.

The will of God begins to be fulfilled, they believe, as an ever increasing number of people identify themselves with the church by becoming its sworn members, thus entering a social group which stands and fights for the assertion of Christian love in all phases of life.

Within a local area, numbers of churches will tacitly accept an ecumenical answer by simply pointing out that «signing» for the deaf is carried on at one or more specific churches in the city, and deaf members in a church where such signing is not practiced are in effect invited to the church where it is, even though that church may be of another denomination.

The Speaker of the House of Commons has urged the Church of England to «get on» with plans to increase the number of black and ethnic minority clergy members.

A number of churches now practice intercommunion with other churches, which means that a member of one church, say, the Church of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch, say, the Church of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic aChurch of England, can receive Communion at a Swedish Lutheran church, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch, but the Roman Catholic church does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic achurch does not allow its members to receive Communion at churches which are not in communion with the Pope, nor, except in very special circumstances, does it invite others to receive at Catholic altars.

«Number two, they're profiling the challenges that societies have and not only that but the challenges that a lot of their church members are facing with their young children - be it their grandchildren or their children.»

The recent canonization of Edith Stein as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross by the Roman Catholic Church poses a number of very serious challenges to living Jews, we who are still members of the people to whom Edith Stein believed she also belonged, even at her death in Auschwitz.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

Canon Alderton - Ford told Premier church members can help their clergy as they deal with the pressures of the job in a number of ways: «One is be an encourager.

And members of the flourishing Christian College Coalition have established a number of criteria for the «Christian» label, of which church - relatedness is not one.

At the start of the month a number of elders and staff members resigned from the Church with the organisation saying it expected more people to follow.

When broken down into categories of members, the number increased to 9 percent of those without a current church affiliation compared to 2 percent for those with a church affiliation.

I myself recalled having heard a number of Dallas faculty members and graduates in recent years distance themselves from «hardline» dispensationalism, reducing C. I. Scofield's highly articulated framework to virtually two principles: the literal reading of the text is to be preferred unless strong evidence indicates otherwise, and Israel and the church remain distinct in biblical chronology (and so in eschatology) to the end.

Actually a large number of churches would run you out the door if you were not a paid up member, cash talks.

According to Sami Minhas, chairman of the Muthida (United) Christian Movement in Sahiwal, local police have advised the church members not to press charges on the alleged attackers «because doing so would create further tensions between local Muslims and Christians, the latter of whom are poor and few in number».

The number of official ecumenical bodies has multiplied, so that a given church may be a member of the WCC, its own international confessional body, a regional confessional body, a regional council of churches, and a national council of churches.

Despite Chambers's constant reminders that the East Brooklyn pastors and church members look at their condition directly and soberly, the numbers grew at each meeting At first only seven congregations found it possible to come up with the necessary dues: Our Lady of Mercy, Our Lady of Presentation, St. John Cantius.

By joining with Christ, the Elect One, through faith, we automatically become members of His Body, the church, and thus become numbered among the elect (Vance: Other Side of Calvinism, 379).

A number of people in the church of which he was a member and of which he had been pastor could not accept what he was doing and so became estranged from him, some of them remaining so to this day.

The letter also says that «we feel the need to alert you and every member of your organization, because Senator Lanza's obstruction is allowing an untold number of pedophiles in Staten Island to remain at - large — free to roam the streets, work in our schools and churches, coach local sports teams, and abuse again.»

«With your numbers (2.5 million members as of December 2017 in Ghana), the Church of Pentecost is better placed to use its influential platform in the various communities to educate members on the need to fulfill their tax obligations.

He is a member of a number of organizations, including the Central - City Blenman Elm Neighborhood Association, Democrats of Greater of Tucson, Democratic Nucleus Club, Social Activism Committee of Grace Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Stonewall Democrats and the Transit on the Move Community Liaison Group.

Arielle Schechtman, director of Spark Networks, the company that owns sites such as LDSSingles and ChristianMingle, said members of the LDS Church would likely be surprised at the number of people who have met their spouse online.

In addition, a number of singles groups, churches, as well as special interest organizations in your nearby region are likely to have members you would want to see.

You seem to have fallen into the same trap as the UK Media which labelled him a «Fundamentalist Christian» because he'd done some research into the more extreme end of Christianity, without first checking whether he was a member of any Christian Group (He isn't), whether he attended any Christian Church (He didn't) or the rambling and somewhat ambiguous attacks he'd left on a number of Christian websites.

Perhaps because that state is the home of a large number of devout members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a.k.a. Mormons, and churches of all stripes care about such things as marriage — and sometimes hold beliefs about them that are at odds with those of civil society.

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