Sentences with phrase «one's particular church»

However, I am glad that other people are speaking up about misconduct at particular churches.

I think he was just responding off the top of his head with what he thought that particular church needed to hear.

Modesty has undeniably enjoyed front - page headline status in Christian conversations about sexuality for decades, almost irrespective of particular church tradition.

Broadly speaking, the Church in the UK is in decline; in particular the Church of England where Sally, Mark and Mohammad all serve.

Thus the initiative of Eliot, Kirkland, and the other Protestant educational reformers to free their institutions from church control continues to play itself out, and the alienation from particular churches seems to entail the delayed but inexorable estrangement from communal faith seeking understanding.

When a congregation has done this work, it will want to invite visitors, and can prepare to guide them «back» into learning its history, theology and corporate personality, and «forward» into Christian life lived in one particular church community.

Juxtaposed against Going Clear's damning claims of Miscavige's abuse of power and history of physical violence against particular church members, it's the bizarreness of this last image that raises necessary questions: To what degree is Cruise aware of such incidents?

So you're response is that because particular churches try to push their beliefs on others you're going to attack all of the people who believe in God.

And because we live, and want to live, in a worldwide Church, we must bear with a certain self - criticism that which is inevitable if the Church is not to disintegrate into particular Churches which no longer have a common life.

The model will depend on particular church polities, on the size and nature of the community in which the church is situated, and on the distinctive characteristics of the congregation itself.

It suggests that maintaining healthy diversity among particular churches means decentralization and communication at the local level, but in global terms with global contacts.

So closely do local churches accompany the growth and perpetuation of Christianity that their structure may seem an apostolic invention, but the followers of Jesus founded only particular churches, not the pattern of the congregation itself.

We must also take a hard look at our own particular church culture: Are we professing to believe in original sin but really operating on romantic notions about inherent goodness?

The same document affirms that non-Catholic communions with valid orders and a valid celebration of the Eucharist [i.e., Orthodox] are «true particular churches.»

Then one must ask, what Church is it that exists in the Orthodox particular churches and in the non-Catholic ecclesial communities?

You could do a whole range of them according to whatever particular churches consider to be imperatives.

The World Council of Churches does not itself negotiate unions between particular churches.

It is a mark of disrespect for those that fought and died, who may wish to be remembered without the religious dogma of one particular Church dominating proceedings.

Latin Church; Eastern Catholic Churches; Local particular churches Abbacy nullius.

Britain's religious communities — and in particular the Church of England — have suffered from the worst of all worlds.

Whereas European Protestantism was largely shaped by state support of particular churches and adjustment to the needs of other religious groups, American Protestantism was largely shaped by autonomous churches.

This particular church is a «breakaway faction» of South Korea's Unification Church, which is widely regarded as a cult, according to the Associated Press.

We can be capable of being religious without belonging to any particular church.

Folks... identifying a person here and a person there (or a particular church) is not evidence that those in general Christian community want people to suffer and die.

I hope this applies to your question, many times, sitting in services in a particular church, the Pastor would give a reprimand to the congregation, saying: «If you feel the urge to raise your hands and do not do it, then you are resisting the Holy Spirit.»

It is the only way to ensure that you are sticking to the unique call God has for your particular church body.

The trigger words are «resisting the Holy Spirit» — the ideology in this particular Church is based on outward signs of physical evidence of the Spirit of God, instead of the fruits of the Spirit, as proof of the Holy Spirit.

Their animosity against the Catholic Church arose not so much from the doctrines of their particular churches as from their broader theologically liberal concerns about church authority.

Every letter to the Ephesians and Corinthians was directed to ALL believers in that particular church, not just to the «clergy»...

Just because a particular church has more members than another doesn't mean that all members of that church are saved.

If we possess a religious faith, we probably recall that it originated in some particular person or persons, in a particular church or place.

I did leave that particular church — reluctantly, and not immediately.

For that matter why is it that that particular church named itself what it did?

@Terri — that's about right for that particular church.

It's my hope that people would see the video and beware of this particular church or that the «Pastor» knowing that people know what he's really like would change his behavior.

We eventually left that particular church group, not entirely because of the pastors or the problems, but also because our general beliefs and desires for how the «church» meets, began to change.

Finding a Christian therapist (not connected to a particular church) literally saved my life.

I think that God has us at a particular church for a season, sometimes.

I felt that the pastor was using the opportunity to publicly acknowledge the importance of a particular church member.

And it's true that the church teaches the primacy of context, but for the informed conscience to disagree with not just a particular church teaching, but this entire vision of sex and marriage that the church has offered that goes back to Jesus, that's a big thing and you better be sure about what your conscience.

After leaving a particular church after 12 years, I have experienced the giant cold shoulder too.

Carter has been a pastor for 24 years, and with this particular church for 18 years.

local catechisms and various catechetical supplements in use in the particular Churches should be examined toensure their complete conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

I wanted to offer them something that this particular church didn't seem to offer — a safe place to be real.

Some vicars in Birmingham and St Albans Dioceses expressed concern that the cards weren't bringing people back to their particular church and wanted to do their own version of soul [food] cards to fix the problem.

Re 3 The Church or any one particular church has always been and will always be a complicated mixture of love and hate, obsessions and confessions, glory and grimness — because that's what we are!