Sentences with phrase «only in conservative churches»

The literalist mentality does not manifest itself only in conservative churches, private - school enclaves, television programs of the evangelical right, and a considerable amount of Christian bookstore material; one often finds a literalist understanding of Bible and faith being assumed by those who have no religious inclinations, or who are avowedly antireligious in sentiment.

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If the cardinals keep going to the conservative side, the Catholic church will exist only in second and third world countries.

With these reservations we might well be of the opinion that the Church in Germany, and not only there, is, on the whole, still tempted to defend old conservative positions rather than to surrender them in order to prepare even now for an inevitable future, despite some conciliar courage to start anew and risk an uncertain future.

But all men, including the conservatives as well as the progressives in the Church, are always tempted to recommend the decision of their own choice by proclaiming it to be the only right and sensible one, and by completely denigrating the other alternative.

Hence such conservative people, too, have a genuine individual function and duty in the whole Church, provided only that they are obedient to the authorities, open to their directives and loving and reasonable towards all their brethren.

The sometimes almost desperate conservatives must be taught to understand, not only theoretically but instinctively and in their spiritual life, that the Church does not exist outside time and history; that she is indeed founded on the grace of Christ, but is nevertheless a very human institution burdened by history.

The only problem with this letter, which was passed on to thousands of conservative Christians in church meetings, newsletters, and through private mailings, is that none of it was true.

In ten years the church emptied from a few hundred to only a handful of members, as people left and found other conservative churches.

Although only 28 percent of baby boomers were brought up as conservative Protestants, that tradition now includes 36 percent of baby boomers who are active in a church.

If the conservative churches are producing more personal religious vitality than the others, the explanation is not likely to be found in one quarter only.

Only in conservative and fundamentalist churches do younger ages predominate.

I used to be in the the KJV only conservative baptist type churches; I thought that was the real deal.

Opposing the bill in the Commons, Conservative MP James Arbuthnot said the practice seemed «out of touch with the majority of the people we represent, because only a tiny proportion of our constituents go to church.»