If you're not really committed to your religion, you'll probably skip out in
search of some other church that will fit your idea of how things should be.
Leaders of other churches failed to protest when Ukrainian border officials in early May refused entry to Metropolitan Hilarion.
As far as what we can do about it, I'm not sure we can do anything about the
buildings of other churches, but if we are in a position of leadership in our own church, we can make changes and move in a direction that will redeem the building.
Collaborated with youth
pastors of other churches to renovate an old church building into a new community - wide youth center.
Our pastor is a very funny man and likes to have a good time, but admitted that he probably wouldn't have acted the same way in the
presence of other church members as he did with us.
Niebuhr insists that both poles are thorough - goingly theoretical: «Whether its function as the exercise of the intellectual love of God and man or as the
illumination of other church activities is stressed, in either case the work of the school is theoretical».
Churches that pray for the specific needs of churches from other denominations in public worship and know the specific
needs of other churches.
If the church goes to the couple and apologizes and tries to make amends with them, and squarely tackles what has happened, the faith of the couple can be strengthened, the relationship between them and this church can be restored and the spiritual
maturity of other church members can grow.
I have discovered that the conservative evangelical church's viewpoint in the 1950's did not necessarily represent the
viewpoint of other churches, nor the viewpoint held by the church over the previous two millennia.
Sure it killed a bunch of people, destroyed a
bunch of other churches in its path and left everyone in general misery, but thank you jesus lord he left a church where we could go inside and give him money that we needed to rebuild our houses!
Active and positive inclusivity in which we share diverse thinking and experiences with our
neighbors of other churches and other faiths is necessary.
The only «equality» of which Paul speaks is the equality which can result from the voluntary
gifts of other churches to «the poor of the saints who are in Jerusalem» (8:14; cf. Rom.
There were 108 churches in our zip code and when AA came to us, they had already been rejected by
several of the other churches and municipal facilities for one reason or another.
A number of Protestant, Catholic and civil liberties groups challenged this special nod to one faith, declaring that such recognition jeopardizes the
rights of other churches (and of individual Catholics) by creating a direct government link with the Vatican.
We need a post-Vatican Two equivalent, something both truly Catholic and yet usable in our multicultural society, something that will get us out of the ghetto we are still largely in, but not in order to conform to middle - class culture, rather to call it to conversion, alongside
Christians of other Churches moved by the same zeal.
It may have been there in the particular Pentecostal church I've joined; it certainly has been there in hundreds of
thousands of other churches.
Later, again as a sign of the unity of the church, the practice arose of keeping in each church a list of
bishops of other churches and praying for them during Communion.
It is not only to the benefit of unbelievers that they come to know Christ but to the
benefit of other Church members as well, in order that we may encourage and build up each other to an even greater degree.
(2) Until not many years ago, the foundational Endowment Ceremony for all faithful Mormon who want to attend their temples, stated that
leaders of other churches were «Hirelings of Satan.»
The Catholic Archdiocese, Church of Scotland, Salvation Army and a
number of other churches are involved in the programme which will see water and food given out to spectators.
So tragically, for far too many churches, the only people who would really notice that your church closed are the people who attend there and the
pastors of the other churches that would receive them.