Sentences with phrase «number of churches»

Before the mission program could have real utility it had to have the support of large numbers of church people.

Growing numbers of churches might be characterized as open systems, attempting to embrace everyone while imposing little on anyone.

There are a small number of church related organizations that technically fit the bill, but they don't promote themselves this way and they only tend to focus on their own community.

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

Given the declining levels of participation in a growing number of churches in the West, wouldn't this be a good time to challenge all disciples of Jesus to increase their generosity, their compassion and their action?

What is especially encouraging for me is meeting an ever - increasing number of church leaders, many of them young, who have a genuine thirst for God.

Here is revealed the illiteracy and lack of religious depth that are to be found among a vast number of church members owing partly to the quality of the preaching and teaching in local churches and partly to lack of opportunity afforded laymen to deal responsibly with the teaching and preaching they do hear.

You neglect to mention the vast number of churches torched by rival christian groups.

This resort is located on the north coast of Jamaica, an island nation that is smaller than the state of Connecticut, but has the largest number of churches per square kilometer.

His son has taken steps away from his daddy dearest and raised up a good number of churches to yes fleece his sheep by introducing state of the art issues such as holographic imaging and stage lights and props made to «impress» his emotionally dysfunctional masses all seeking a little societal excitement!

Growing numbers of church people, too, are thoroughly secularized and find their meanings in a technological pragmatic society, and, while continuing to observe the traditional expressions of worship, teaching, and sacraments, these people find their search for meaning more and more unmet by the church's teaching.

My view on the actual number of churches that ban homosexuals was warped because those churches get far more attention.

We've got non-stop commercials urging us to buy this and buy that... the iconography consists of Nast's & Clement Moore's Santa, and Rudolph and Frosty, a pagan Xmas tree & holly & mistletoe, Lights on houses, Hermy & the Abominable Snowman... and an ever - dwindling number of church - goers, many of whom make their once - a-year church appearance on Christmas and then go back to their everyday lives, none the better.

And World Relief had a record number of churches volunteer to help refugees resettle in America last year, while a solidarity pledge by We Welcome Refugees surpassed its original goal of 10,000 signatures, and was poised to break 20,000 on Friday.

The church has great power and influence in society, and our presence is evident by the vast number of church buildings and Christian slogans that dot our cultural landscape, but few Christians have progressed much past a milk diet of basic Christian truths.

When asked about the huge number of churches that have teamed together, Cathy said: «It's good to have a common purpose, we've worked together before but city of culture has given the funding for some work... we know a lot more about what's going on across the city now.»

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.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Providing special religious education resources for the physically handicapped, the retarded, and the brilliant child is a responsibility which a growing number of churches are undertaking to meet.

The immense mental health contributions of organized religion will be released only as increasing numbers of churches and temples become centers of healing and growth — centers for healing the brokenness of individuals and relationships, and settings where persons find stimulation for lifelong growth toward their fullest humanity.

I believe that this mystique accounts in large part both for the misery and frustration that afflict countless clergymen and for the dreary dullness that, according to large numbers of church members, characterizes Sunday services.

The number of churches correlates with the number of alcoholics, but it's not causal.

The increase in the number of churches (between 1990 and 2000) was about one - eighth of what is needed to keep up with population growth.

The Church of Scotland says it does not support any side in the Scottish Independence Referendum despite a number of churches and ministers coming out in support of Yes.

Fishon, you are probably right about the numbers of churches that specifically ban gay people.

That said, the number of church bodies interested in joining the ILC is growing.

Rt Revd Lord Harries, a former Bishop of Oxford and now peer, told Premier it «doesn't bother me at all» that the number of Church of England bishops in the House of Lords could be cut.

During this time, he discovered many people in Colorado Springs did not have a God context, despite the large number of churches and parachurch organizations in the area.

The number of churches that are employing specialized children's workers appears to continue to grow.

A number of churches in Ireland have been robbed by thieves who've used specialist equipment to break into safes.

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.

I am always amazed at the number of church going «Christians» that do not walk the talk and yet many who never set foot in a church actually do live moral lives of charity and kindness.

This article is spot on, however there are a number of churches who are meeting us where we are and on track with what we're looking for.

I came home and reflected a lot on what a number of the churches and Christian business men in our city have spent the last 5 years trying to maintain as a «witness to our city».

Rev Weaver enrolled in New College in Edinburgh to study divinity in 2012 and after graduating in 2015, and completed placements in a number of churches.

I can not begin to count the number of church musicians who have told me about the despair they have experienced in churches where they are regarded merely as need - fillers.

Mark, I can, off the top of my head, count on one hand the number of churches that have closed in the past two years in just one diocese, on top of that, several elementary schools and one high school.

For a while it seemed that, at least in the ecumenical movement and at leadership levels in a number of churches and denominations, they might carry the day.