Sentences with phrase «other church members took»

He and two other church members took it to a specialist, the Rev. David Smith at the Museum of the Book in London.

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Through his preaching, by taking the Eucharist to many members in nursing homes and those too ill to come to church, and in countless other ways, he had helped people see how the Eucharist made caring for one another intelligible.

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Churches take members to task, not the other way around.

EVERYONE takes turns helping to clean the church buildings, EVERYONE gives sermons, or teaches classes, or helps with music if they have a musical background, helps prepare and send meals to members who are sick, helps other members when they move, helps set up the tables and put the food out for gatherings, visits other members on a monthly basis to find out if they need help with anything.

It would have been corrected much faster if local christians and churches had taken concerted action, or if the RCC had stepped in to control its cult members, Hitler and others.

The public acknowledgment by a Pope that certain actions taken in the past by members of the Catholic Church were in error, and caused damage to others which needs to be repented by those members of the Church now living, appears to be largely, if not completely unprecedented.

On the other side, 15 years ago when we left a 12 thousand member church that took in millions a month, we had no idea where Father was taking us.

I take it you are a member of your local St. Vincent de Paul Society or volunteer with Catholic Charities or any of the other myriad organizations that serve the poor through the Church as you express such a concern for serving the poor.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

The subjects fell into three categories: One group were church members who had taken peyote at least 100 times but had minimal exposure to other drugs or alcohol; another set were not church members and had consumed little or no alcohol or drugs; and the final portion were former alcoholics who had been sober for at least two months.

My beginnings were in New York, and having studied with Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Mary Anthony, and many others, my life took a big turn when I became a member of the Judson Church Movement

The question of where such remarriages can take place has proved controversial, with the Church of England refusing to conduct the remarriages of divorcees for much of the twentieth century and other options not being available to members of the royal family within England and Wales.

While, in introducing an exception in Article 4 (2) of the Directive, the legislator certainly took into account the special position of churches and other religious and philosophical bodies in the Member States, that exception can not be interpreted in a manner that undermines the general purpose of the Directive, that of non-discrimination, or the right to an effective remedy.