Sentences with phrase «over local congregations»

Massachusetts churches refused to accept discipline and control over the local congregations.

According to the Cambridge Platform, synods had no real jurisdiction or authority over local congregations or pastors, but now even the Government was no longer interested in enforcing discipline.

The bishop of Rome, claiming immediate jurisdiction over every local congregation and individual, was served by administrative personnel whose readiness to require intellectual obedience was unsustained by relevant theological or historical scholarship, or by a habit of explaining their disciplinary actions.

Not exact matches

Arthur Paul Boers focuses on pastoral leadership; Lillian Daniel offers a moving reflection on liturgy, a congregation's division over a war - resolution debate, and a surprising instance of local church triumphalism; and Eugene McCarraher argues that the church is the political community within which Christians must debate war and peace.

Shows the church's true intent... stemming the losses in local congregations over the past few years.

Yeah, because local governments all over the country tell Christian congregations they're not allowed to build churches or wear vestments in public all the time, right?

After a perilous escape and difficult crossing, he and his friends managed to get to the U.S.. His case was taken over by a church social - welfare agency, and one of the local congregations began sponsoring him.

Unlike students in seminary or delegates to a denominational convention, members of local congregations have to live together over the long haul.

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

NEH funds are supporting 253 humanities projects across the United States, among them, «a video - based web platform allowing scholars to publish papers in sign language, and a new tool that uses digital analysis of architectural floor plans to show how Frank Lloyd Wright's structures changed over time,... and a local community digitization projects will preserve historic materials held by the congregations of African - American churches in Georgia»

She has worked diligently to provide temporary housing for people through a network of over 20 local churches and synagogues, where for one month each year three families are housed by the host congregation.