The Bill was, however, voted through by a majority
of other Assembly Members and will now become law.
Members of the host committee, which is still in formation, include a number
of other Assembly Democrats from both upstate and NYC.
Not exact matches
Employees were siloed workhorses, churning out elements
of a digital product as if part
of an
assembly line, not fully understanding how their part
of a project impacted
others or fit into the overall strategy.
«The job
of assembly, which may come naturally to humans, has to be broken down into different steps, such as identifying where the different chair parts are, the force required to grip the parts, and making sure the robotic arms move without colliding into each
other,» Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong said.
But because
of automated
assembly lines, automakers and
other manufacturers aren't the big employers they used to be.
At the breaking up
of this pacific and free
assembly, some withdraw to the synagogue, and
others to take a glass.
«Once renovations are complete, Hangar One will again be home to high - tech innovation, as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research, development,
assembly and testing in the areas
of space exploration, aviation, rover / robotics and
other emerging technologies,» NASA said in a statement.
But they're going to learn in a hurry that although Tesla is sometimes thought
of as a high - tech hero
of Silicon Valley, when it comes to rolling cars off an
assembly line, it's just like any
other automaker.
In
other words, the next phase
of 3D printing development within manufacturing companies will involve bringing 3D printing out
of the realm
of rapid prototyping and into the
assembly line, where additive processes are used to make parts that end up on the final product.
What is needed now is funding to get us there, which includes the cost
of components, board layout, fab /
assembly, and equipment; as well as covering
other necessary costs
of doing business.
Whereas some Amazon employees are in constant motion across the floors
of its enormous centers — the biggest, in Arizona, is the size
of twenty - eight football fields —
others work on
assembly lines packing goods for shipping.
When Alberta's Legislative
Assembly reconvenes in the next few months, for the first time since 1982 the title
of Official Opposition will given to a caucus
of MLA's representing a party
other than the New Democrats or the Liberals.
Aetna made an issue last year
of its presence in Connecticut when it joined
other businesses lobbying Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the General
Assembly to roll back proposed tax increases.
The optimization
of manufacturing processes has bolstered the use
of robotics to accelerate the
assembly of cars, computers and
other machines.
For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic
assemblies: «How this
assembly would coexist with
other preexisting bodies
of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those
other entities for which some humans were not human enough to exercise suffrage, this new
assembly would speak from the will
of all the people, and in the face
of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»
From the opening worship and
other opportunities for experiencing «aboriginal spirituality» to plenaries where calls for declarations
of «aboriginal sovereignty» over Australia were heard, the efforts to link the
Assembly with the aboriginal cause were obvious.
Rt Rev Dr Derek Browning, Moderator
of the General
Assembly of the Church
of Scotland, said: «We mark his passing with respect, and join with
others in confidence in say, «Well done, good and faithful servant.»»
When a report recognizing the work
of God in the lives
of people
of other faiths was presented on the
Assembly floor, it was hotly contested.
Rather, one is better advised to join the
assembly of others who struggle with their faith and in their faith, and in this company pray together: «Do not cast me away from your presence; do not take your holy spirit from me; restore to me the joy
of your salvation.»
Far from the «holy ground»
of seeking and finding that Hogg and his colleagues could affirm in the faith
of others, the
Assembly finally settled for a recognition
of «God's creative work in the seeking for religious truth among people
of other faiths.»
At the most recent General
Assembly of the World Council
of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance
of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.
Others, like the majority
of delegates at the recent Minneapolis Synod
Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, oppose the amendment.
The resolution noted that the
Assemblies were formed on «several biblical Pentecostal distinctives, not the least
of which is the belief that the initial physical evidence
of the baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in
other tongues.»
In
other traditions the practice
of doing theology authoritatively is institutionalized in the powers
of constitutionally legitimated representative denominational
assemblies elected to govern the church.
In my survey
of 1,275 AG adherents from 16 different congregations, only 30 percent were raised in the
Assemblies; an additional 10 percent were converts from
other Pentecostal sects.
Just as
other once - charismatic religious movements have followed the path
of overinstitutionalization and over-regulation, which in turn has discouraged much
of the original charisma, the
Assemblies of God could suffer the chilling effects
of routinization.
Section 2
of the Charter claims to guarantee the following fundamental freedoms to all Canadians: «(a) freedom
of conscience and religion; (b) freedom
of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom
of the press and
other media
of communication; (c) freedom
of peaceful
assembly; and (d) freedom
of association.»
Preaching is the creation
of a finite form (sermon) that is brought to the
assembly in order to be broken by a holy God who is radically
other than festival, ceremony, or even ritual performance.
[In thousands (175,440 represents 175,440,000)--------- Total Christian --------- 173,402 Catholic --------- 57,199 Baptist --------- 36,148 Protestant - no denomination supplied --------- 5,187 Methodist / Wesleyan --------- 11,366 Lutheran --------- 8,674 Christian - no denomination supplied --------- 16,834 Presbyterian --------- 4,723 Pentecostal / Charismatic --------- 5,416 Episcopalian / Anglican --------- 2,405 Mormon / Latter - Day Saints --------- 3,158 Churches
of Christ --------- 1,921 Jehovah's Witness --------- 1,914 Seventh - Day Adventist --------- 938
Assemblies of God --------- 810 Holiness / Holy --------- 352 Congregational / United Church
of Christ --------- 736 Church
of the Nazarene --------- 358 Church
of God --------- 663 Orthodox (Eastern)--------- 824 Evangelical / Born Again \ 2 --------- 2,154 Mennonite --------- 438 Christian Science --------- 339 Church
of the Brethren --------- 231 Nondenominational \ 2 --------- 8,032 Disciples
of Christ --------- 263 Reformed / Dutch Reform --------- 206 Apostolic / New Apostolic --------- 970 Quaker --------- 130 Full Gospel --------- 67 Christian Reform --------- 381 Foursquare Gospel --------- 116 Fundamentalist \ 2 --------- 69 Salvation Army --------- 70 Independent Christian Church --------- 86 --------- Total
other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426 Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 1
other religions --------- 8,796 Jewish --------- 2,680 Muslim --------- 1,349 Buddhist --------- 1,189 Unitarian / Universalist --------- 586 Hindu --------- 582 Native American --------- 186 Scientologist --------- 25 Baha'I --------- 49 Taoist --------- 56 New Age --------- 15 Eckankar --------- 30 Rastafarian --------- 56 Sikh --------- 78 Wiccan --------- 342 Deity --------- 32 Druid --------- 29 Santeria --------- 3 Pagan --------- 340 Spiritualist --------- 426
Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 1
Other unclassified --------- 735 --------- No religion specified, total --------- 34,169 Atheist --------- 1,621 Agnostic --------- 1,985 Humanist --------- 90 Secular --------- 34 Ethical Culture --------- 11 No religion --------- 30,427 --------- Refused to reply to question --------- 11,815
Missionary Pentecostalism includes the efforts
of U.S. denominations like the
Assemblies of God, as well as missions from Sweden and
other European countries.
One can see this metaphysical scheme behind the words
of Mason and Jefferson in the two acts
of the Virginia
Assembly quoted above: «that all men are equally entitled to the free exercise
of religion, according to the dictates
of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty
of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each
other.»
His whole argument, particularly in the last portion
of the book, is that they are priests after Christ, with priestly duties to perform, some
of which are performed out in the world, and
others of which are performed in the
assembly of believers, gathered before God's throne on the heavenly Zion — and how dare anyone forsake priestly service on the heavenly Zion in favor
of letting a Levitical priest do it for you on the earthly Zion!
Thomas Trask, the
Assemblies of God top administrator, commends the film for its «clear salvation message,» and
others see it as a way
of telling about Jesus in a straightforward manner.
It was the announcement by Mukherji and D' Sousa that the Christian Community had decided to forgo special communal representation in the legislature and
other communal safeguards so that there would not be political exploitation
of increase
of numbers through conversion that there was a spontaneous decision in the Constituent
Assembly to include propagation
of religion as a fundamental human right
of the citizen.
Across the table was a quietly troubled
Assembly of God clergyman, and on my
other side were a couple
of weary middle - aged mainline types.
Kaplan rightly concludes that Christian loyalty must not be to the state or to any
other expression
of worldly culture, but to the Eucharistic
assembly, transcending the bonds
of nation and generation to stand on the threshold
of the kingdom
of God.
Ok, a number
of pastors have dared each
other to wear this shirt to our synod
assembly.
Speech can be regulated only when it directly conflicts with
other constitutional conditions
of the democratic process — for instance, freedom
of religion and
assembly, equal protection under the law, and basic rights to life and liberty.
In Asia one encounters two
other forms
of religious
assembly that are, again, structurally different from the congregation.
If we should inquire for the essence
of «government,» for example, one man might tell us it was authority, another submission, another police, another an army, another an
assembly, another a system
of laws; yet all the while it would be true that no concrete government can exist without all these things, one
of which is more important at one moment and
others at another.
For the first half
of the twentieth century, Pentecostal belief and practice remained separate from mainstream denominational religion forming its own denominations like the
Assemblies of God (the largest Pentecostal denomination), The Church
of God in Christ, and many
others.
Article 8
of the «Statement
of Fundamental Truths»
of the General Council
of the
Assemblies of God states, «The baptism
of believers in the Holy Ghost is witnessed by the initial physical sign
of speaking with
other tongues as the Spirit
of God gives them utterance (Acts 2:4).»
I was an
assembly - line employee for several years, and there, despite the presence
of hundreds, even thousands
of other people, I could be as solitary as a peasant in a field or a herdsman tending sheep, laboring in rhythm — not with nature, to be sure — but with the conveyor belt that brought the auto body or its parts to me.
Following the 1975 Nairobi
assembly, at which there were sharp disagreements about the Christian attitude to people
of other faiths, the phrase «A Just Participatory and Sustainable Society» provided the framework for discussion
of social ethics.
By the end
of the
Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most
of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism
of individuals than the
other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger
of replacing salvation from sin at the heart
of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing
of the range
of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning
of salvation and the program
of dialogue with people
of other faiths.
It uses «brokenness» as a thematic motif in speaking
of a «holy» God who is radically
other than festival, solemn
assembly, ceremony or ritual performance.
When we affirm a particular denominational confession
of the faith, whether the Westminster Confession
of Faith or the Sixteen Fundamental Truths
of the
Assemblies of God or any
other set
of propositions about God, we often make artificial barriers between believers and lose the blessing
of diverse voices.
The subject
of the church's mission and service was raised and discussed in
other presentations in the
Assembly and in
other section reports.
He will be reminded
of what that simple old sage remarked in ancient times, «When they meet together, and the world sets down at an
assembly, or in a court
of law, or a theater, or a camp, or in any
other popular resort, and there is a great uproar and they praise some things which are being said or done, and blame
other things, equally exaggerating both, shouting and clapping their hands, and the echo
of the rocks and the place in which they are assembled redoubles the sound
of the praise or blame — at such a time will not a young man's heart, as they say, leap within him?
The New Delhi WCC
Assembly (1961) rightly observed about culture within the pluralistic context: The assumption that Western culture is the central culture, and that therefore «Christian Culture» is necessarily identified with the customs and traditions
of Western civilizations, is a hindrance to the spread
of the gospel and a stumbling block to those
of other traditions.