Sentences with phrase «other churches as»

I asked a business director at a large evangelical church in Pittsburgh about changes they were making, and he said, «We don't see other churches as our competition.

Why shouldn't other churches as well?

Of course we're going to disagree on some doctrine and worship style and methods of evangelism and whatever else, but writing off other churches as «old, closed - minded people that can't handle change» or «meddlin» kids that just want to go to a concert every Sunday,» is ignoring the larger picture.

In other words, the practice was to be unique to Corinth, it should not followed by all the other churches as well.

There is good reason for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)» and other churches as well» to say «no.»

During his years in New York, Stevens would sit meditating in the nave of St. Patrick's Cathedral, and in other churches as well when his frequent travel allowed.

The Mormon Church is no different than any other church as they serve after an image of a false god and a false Christ (Matthew 24:24).

A real Jedi may belong to any Church or no other Church as long as s / he takes a true oath to follow our Creed and Code which is published here for all to see.

Not exact matches

And as an example of action in service of others, you need to look no further than this Hollywood - worthy backdrop of Memorial Church.

Whether they're churches, sports teams, unions or other local groups, they all share important roles as social infrastructure for our communities.

Closed department stores will most likely become other businesses that could benefit from the large square footage, such as fitness centers, churches, offices, public libraries, and even medical clinics, Williamson says.

As a result, food banks, soup kitchens, churches and other emergency food providers across the country say they're seeing greater demand than ever.

Affinity Fraud: Victims often belong to the same group or ethnicity, such as common nationality, church, synagogue, country club, or other organization where they have common interests or beliefs.

Others pointed out that, local furniture chain Gallery Furniture had turned its warehouses — including one in the same neighborhood as the church — into shelters.

I was taught as a child to pray to God and nothing / no one else and that I need not be in a Church or any building and that God hears all of our prayers, to have faith in following The Ten Commandments, to incorporate The Golden Rule, to be honest and true to myself and most importantly, to not judge others.

tha tis a practice of some other religions, but the word does not even exist in Mormon scripture as a practice of the church.

My parents are of different Christian denominations and when they wanted to get married, neither of the churches would perform the ceremony as inter-denominational marriages were considered to be «doomed to failure» — especially as neither of them would agree to raise their children in one or the other's church.

Recently, I was talking to a few friends — really faithful folks who attend church regularly and who, above all other things, self - identify as Christians — about the subject of unemployment.

It should be clear by now that Antioch's problem is not the same as those expressed by the other dissenting churches; rather, it goes to the heart of how a council can be held at all.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

In other words, I as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ, can do the work for the person who has died by being baptized for him.

He brought his background as an evangelical Lutheran to the Catholic Church and thought each had much to contribute to the other.

«Furthermore, many elements of sanctification and of truth» are found outside the visible confines of the Catholic Church: «the written Word of God; the life of grace; faith, hope, and charity, with the other interior gifts of the Holy Spirit, as well as visible elements.

As it turned out, the parishioner who had made that insulting remark so many decades earlier got the very same service, and her nice casket was covered at the door of the church by the same pall that covered dear Bernice's very lowly casket.I look forward to the day when Bernice and the other lady stand side by side before the throne of heavenly grace.

For example, the China Christian Council, successor to the official Three - Self Movement, was welcomed as a member of the WCC without any reference to continued restrictions on Chinese Catholics and other non-recognized churches.

But, he said, the church must respond to the new political / social / spiritual environment, which did include the end of the Cold War and other global shifts, as the WCC discerns and defines its purpose.

Finally, it bears mentioning that while all adults (our parents included) truly do make it up as they go along, for better or worse, traversing our world as young adults can present to us positive opportunities — opportunities that allow us to shepherd and encourage others in our churches and communities, even the wee ones or our own children who desperately want to grow up.

He frequently cites the work of Frank Furstenburg and Arlie Hochschild, two sociologists of family and gender relations whose views are by no means ideologically conservative, and he avoids value - loaded language, especially when it comes to describing the mainline Protestant churches whose leadership has, by and large, capitulated to the secular - elitist acceptance of extramarital sex, abortion, homosexuality, and other practices that conservative Christians view as inimical to moral life and family health.

I believe the man, Jesus, who's story is recorded in the 4 gospels — would never recognize the American christian churches as anywhere near followers of «love one another as I have loved you» and «do to others as you would have them do to you.»

According to the Patriarch, the Council «will address internal issues of the unity and administration of the Church, but also matters such as relations with other churches and faiths, in order to present a unified voice and credible witness for the life of the world.»

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints does not recognize any other baptism as legitimate unless it is through their church, which they believed is the only «True» church on the pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints does not recognize any other baptism as legitimate unless it is through their church, which they believed is the only «True» church on the pchurch, which they believed is the only «True» church on the pchurch on the planet.

Of course the mormon church is as internally inconsistant as any other religious group and has had just about every position on just about every issue over time.

I am sure that there are other Christian faiths that would love to have them as active church participants.

Despite these features of conservative Methodism, others still fear it as a source of division in the church, and perhaps understandably so.

But the LCMS» relationships with other churches have also been growing over the past few years as well.

BUT... if the Church is going to claim and treat sexual deviance (if in fact that is what they believe it is) with such force over and against all other indiscretions, how do they justify that... and how isn't it hypocritical of them when they simply wink at other things that are clearly outlined by Jesus» own words as grievous.

All other Church are corrupt and either lost the Priesthood authority thru corruption (think Catholic) or never had it, but took it upon themselves to administer the audiences of the Gospel as in baptism, marriages ect...

In his great 1907 book, The Orthodox Eastern Church, Adrian Fortescue observed that Photius was called, among other things, illegitimate and an adulterer — «only the amenities of theological controversy,» as Fortescue drily puts it.

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

Who are we as a church to decry one form of the same abuse when we allow and empower the other?»

Specifically, the Commission on Religion and Public Life called for the number of bishops to be cut from 26 to 16, to allow clerics from other major religions in Britain to be represented, as well as other strands of the Church currently which are excluded, such as the Roman Catholic Church and Black - majority churches.

The church would support your medical hormone use as it allows it for other medical uses including endometriosis and hormone replacement therapy in the elderly.

If a church can not tell its flock «what to do with my body,» as the saying goes, with regard to contraception, then other uses of that body will quickly prove to be similarly off - limits to ecclesiastical authority.

Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

As far as they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each otheAs far as they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each otheas they were concerned, the protest movement and the Church had nothing to do with each other.

As the media can and must move on to other things, so it is conceivable that in time institutions such as universities and churches too will put this behind theAs the media can and must move on to other things, so it is conceivable that in time institutions such as universities and churches too will put this behind theas universities and churches too will put this behind them.

I don't think young people can respect the church anymore when they take stances such as this on and a few other controversial ones.

As powerful as these church commemorations are, other historical narratives compete with them in today's RussiAs powerful as these church commemorations are, other historical narratives compete with them in today's Russias these church commemorations are, other historical narratives compete with them in today's Russia.

I ask this for three reasons: 1) Warfield begins the chapter with Edward Gibbon's conversion to Catholicism, which was related to Gibbon's belief in the continuation of the miraculous; 2) he spends several pages in the same chapter critiquing another famous convert to Catholicism, John Henry Newman, noting what he sees as Newman's shift toward the miraculous; 3) even though he knows that Gregory of Nyssa, Athanasius, and Jerome all wrote about saints in which the miraculous was prominent, he still makes the claim that these «saints» lives» follow other Christian romances and thus represent an infusion of Heathenism into the church.