Sentences with phrase «particular church named»

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

Not exact matches

In every church I have served I still remember a few particular names and faces.

In light of that pivotal text, Volf understands the church as «a community of grace» which gathers in Christ's name in a particular locality.

This church has many buildings as part of their complex, and ironically, as I was sitting there in my car, looking through the barb wire, the angle was perfect to see the name of this particular building.

So Pope Francis has named, as a saint of particular theological distinction, someone from a separated church — someone who was not, in fact, a Catholic at all.

Some of my Episcopal friends tell me that episcopacy is not a name for a particular kind of church constitution (as Presbyterians might suppose), but rather an understanding of representative authority and responsibility in ministry vested in a college of «sacramental persons» — an understanding compatible with a wide range of constitutional theories and structures.

The local church bears a distinctive name to indicate, even in eases where one family rules the parish, that the congregation is not synonymous with a particular bond of flesh.

The local church bears a distinctive name to indicate... that the congregation is not synonymous with a particular bond of flesh.»

One who bore a human name and died under a particular signature of his own is the Lord whom the Church confesses.

He wrote, «If everything that the Church does is to be classed as «mission,» we shall have to find another term for the Church's particular responsibility for «the heathen,» those who have never yet heard the Name of Christ...» (ibid.)

But evangelicals thought of their «churches» as «denominations» where «the word «denomination» implies that the group referred to is but one member of a larger group, called or denominated by a particular name.