Sentences with phrase «of church body»

These traits are a firm allegiance by the members of a «strong» church to its beliefs, to the point of risking persecution; a willingness to submit to the discipline of the church body; and an eagerness to convince others through missionary activity.

If so, surely focusing on those external clichà © s just provides a way of righting off whole segments of the church body because it doesn't look like what you want it to look like.

I have to say that being targeted is just about as off - putting as is church - as - performance, because it's patronizing and negligent of the church body in its entirety.

There is even a man in the ranks of my church body, Uwe Siemon Netto, who is an experienced journalist and theologian keeping a blog http://concordia.typepad.com/ «The Center for Lutheran Theology and Public Life.»

I know of a synod of a church body which, wishing to put the matter of financial support of the «program» of the church on a less obviously allocated basis than characterizes the property tax office of the municipality, came up with a «fresh» idea: each should give as the Lord had prospered him — the synod called it the «Grace system»!

«While we understand that members of the church body will have disagreements, I can say that we are sad that Jon chose to file a lawsuit,» Friends» lawyer John Cone said.

But when it comes to the nature of the Church body and its internal, familial relations, we need to ask the question now more than ever.

Seldom making a serious impact on the life and policy of the church body, it consumes its energy in planning conferences on evangelism or on prayer and encourages the new packaging of old revival techniques in such activities as the charismatic movement or the Faith Alive movement.

Jesus Christ is the mystical head of the church body in which all people are united to him.

For one that is so eager to point out the nuances between individuals who leave the church and those who leave to follow Christ, you are equally eager to groups all kinds of church bodies and leaders together.

They were invited to join the newly formed National Association of Evangelicals, a group of church bodies composed of the fundamentalist, holiness and Pentecostal traditions.

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

Morrison invited experts from a number of church bodies to comment on the situation of and prospects for their own groups.

People from one denomination do not care much about what goes on in another, and as a result, news of church bodies rarely receives coverage.

Not exact matches

The Pope plans to hire a top global accounting firm to look over the Church's finances, and he's set up a «Working - Party for the Economic Future,» composed of some of the top Vatican bodies, in order to create a plan for the city - state to free up more money for helping the poor, according to Bloomberg.

If you are claiming to be in the «body of Christ» and the «institutional» church is not, maybe you have something to offer about who Christ is, what he did and what it means, and you might be able to do it during the week where the west commemorates it.

Bottom line is this, keep it out of the public square; learn to respect others beliefs / disbeliefs; stop trying to tell LGBT they are wrong; stop trying to tell women what they can and can't do with their bodies; stop trying to push bogus creationism crap (backed with zero evidence) on innocent children in the public school system; just stop pushing it outside your home or church.

Oh, and remember, Pope Benedict's last job before his promotion was head of the body of the Roman Catholic Church that we lovingly used to refer to as the Inquisition!

So what separates the American Founding — a compromise throughout between Lockean (Cartesian) abstracted or isolated personalism and Christian or relational personalism — from the thoroughgoing «republicanism» of the French revolution is that our understanding of religious freedom is freedom of the church (meaning organized religious body).

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

That last topic brings to mind another topic worthy of discussion in considering President Harrison's first term — namely, the LCMS» increasingly friendly relations with other church bodies.

It's far from clear that Madison is saying that government is limited by the freedom the church as an organized body of thought and action.

This was the music funded by the church and by private patrons and was the largest body of published work.

There are many problems in churches find one with a body of believers who believe Jesus is God's son, the Bible is true, and where they love one another.

Although we have a kind of body of executive elders to make crucial financial decisions, etc., about the church, we want the oversight of the church to be open and collegial.

One day that last goyim that will enter the Body of Christ, by faith in Jesus, will believe and be also heir with all the rest, both Jewish and Gentile, who have believed and have become members of The Church.

I will also no longer act as if I need a majority vote of some ecclesiastical body in order to bless, ordain, recognize and celebrate the lives and gifts of gay and lesbian people in the life of the church.

Quoting Romans 8:23 «we wait eagerly for... the redemption of our bodies» West says that he hopes that his teaching will ultimately impact the Church by shaping our view of and hope in the afterlife as offering us bodily redemption.

In particular, the LCMS, along with its sister church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church, Lutheran Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church — Canada (LCC), has developed good relations with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&Church in North America (ACNA), publishing last year a joint statement rejoicing that they can «jointly affirm core teachings (articles) of the Christian faith shared by our church bodies.&church bodies.»

Campaigners plan to protest outside York Minster on Sunday as members of the Church of England's governing body hold a four - day meeting there this weekend.

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Patriarch Bartholomew's first move could be to normalize the canonical standing of the ecclesial bodies that are presently not in communion with other Orthodox Churches.

Catholics hold that the Church is the body of Christ, a sacramental and mystical communion in which Christ is truly and effectually present and through which his justifying and sanctifying grace is mediated.

Again morals aren't derived from the «opinion» of any member of the mystical body of the church except for its head, God.

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

So, if a church were using the Law of Moses properly, don't you believe there would be no bodies laying about in blood?

In the event, however, all it produced was permanent exile — with Seminex finally being absorbed into various seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (formed in 1988 through merger of the other large Lutheran bodies in this country), from which the Missouri Synod is more and more estranged.

If a church can not tell its flock «what to do with my body,» as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off - limits to ecclesiastical authority.

But my worry is that focusing on Scripture's effect within the worshipping body of Christ obscures Scripture's position over the Church as its rule for faith and practice.

History shows the Catholic Church being a lawless body that has been allowed to inflict their beliefs and twisted ways on people in the name of «religion» and force weaker minds into adhering to their closed minded belief system.

But both church bodies display at their center symptoms of decay and fatigue that make it difficult to sustain hopes for their long - term health.

Nativists and other theological liberals allowed their fear of ecclesiastical institutions to lead them into theological warfare against the Catholic Church and sometimes against all ecclesiastical bodies, and the legal results are ugly.

You probably know more than you think, and you can use that knowledge to help the Church and Body of Christ in ways that others simply can not.

For the accommodationist, the body of Israel (or the body of the Church) extends, in a descending sense to be sure, beyond the range of its literal adherents.

'» Or as the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it: «The bodies of the dead must be treated with respect and charity, in faith and hope of the Resurrection.

It is the sacrament in which the Church is most truly what she is, the people of God being daily formed into the body of Christ through the gift of the Lord's body and blood.

Church leaders seldom carry a buddy's body out of a kill zone, and seldom weep beside the box holding the body of a fellow soldier.

For Evangelicals, the Church as the one body of Christ extending through space and time includes all the redeemed of all the ages and all on earth in every era who have come to living faith in the body's living Head.

But the true church, the true body of Christ... to which these guys obviously belong, will not waver in their belief that love is all powerful.