Sentences with phrase «placed us in a church which»

He was interpreted in ways which partly obscured him — as all interpretations must — but the most authentic records of his teachings, life, death, and resurrection were preserved and honored, and he was given chief place in the Church which was declared to be his body.

Not exact matches

In 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis which outlines how the Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy which took place in the confessionaIn 1962, the Vatican released the Crimen Sollicitationis which outlines how the Church is to handle accusations of s3xual impropriety against clergy which took place in the confessionain the confessional.

The wife submits to her husband, as in the first part of Paul's dictum in Ephesians5, and the husband fulfills the second part of Paul's injunction by laying down his life for his wife as Christ did for his Church (which might have been what Paul had in mind in the first place).

Despite the sinfulness of its people, the Church is always the privileged place of encounter with the living God, who continually forms his people into the community in which the full truth about humanity is grasped.

For Wells, the pervasive moral stupor characteristic of late - twentieth - century North American culture, to which much social criticism in recent years has been directed, demands a response from the Church before any thoroughgoing moral reconstruction of civil society can take place.

However, I do wish the curators had done the right thing and chosen not to include the cross, which could easily have been placed outside one of the countless Christian churches in that neighborhood.

After March 4, 2013, an International Arrest Warrant will be issued against these Defendants.The guilty verdict followed nearly a month of deliberations by more than thirty sworn Citizen Jurors of the 150 case exhibits produced by Court Prosecutors, The Court's judgement declares the wealth and property of the churches responsible for the Canadian genocide to be forfeited and placed under public ownership, as reparations for the families of the more than 50,000 children who died in the residential schools.To enforce its sentence, the Court has empowered citizens in Canada, the United States, England, Italy and a dozen other nations to act as its legal agents armed with warrants, and peacefully occupy and seize properties of the Roman Catholic, Anglican and United Church of Canada, which are the main agents in the deaths of these children

In just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayeIn just about all my career, the historic churches have been in decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayein decline, their place being taken by «evangelical» churches which seem like nothing more than Tea Partiers at prayer.

Second, women pastors may be more effective in dealing with the feminization of the local church which has taken place increasingly, and which troubles many mainline congregations.

It also places it in continuity with the experiences of the early church, and within the continuing narrative of the development of Christian thought — as people have struggled to make sense of and articulate their lived experience of God — which produced the great ecumenical creeds (with their clear progression of understanding about God, Christ and the Holy Spirit)- and which continues on today.

Now I have reported before that Dallas, Texas is the mega church capital of the world, which means that there are more mega churches per capita than anywhere else in the world, but interestingly, Dallas only came in fourth place for mega church attendance by percentage of people who attend church.

However, how does corporate worship (which is encouraged in Hebrews 10:19 - 25 among other places) and meeting and teaching take place if not in «the church»?

In Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to comIn Ephesians we are presented with a stark reminder of the early church's understanding of the power of the risen Christ, who was placed by God «far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to comin this age but also in that which is to comin that which is to come.

Drew Hart is the author of Trouble I've Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism, which released in January and which tackles police brutality, mass incarceration, antiblack stereotypes, poverty, and everyday acts of racism by placing them in the larger framework of white supremacy.

It maintains cordial relations and some measure of cooperation with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, which nobody would place in the mainline....

I was rather surprised to find myself quoted in the recent issue of FIRST THINGS as claiming, «Any church excluding Christians at a given place is not merely a bad church, but rather is not church at all, since a Eucharist to which not all the Christians at a given place might gather would not be merely a morally deficient Eucharist, but rather no Eucharist at all.»

The context of Matthew 24 and 25 is the tribulation period which will take place after the church is taken up in the rapture.

There is the ongoing problem of biased representation in the media, with plenty of space given to the atheistic opinions of Hawking and Dawkins, and little if any coverage given to the promotion and integration of science which takes place within the context of the Church.

Denhollander specifically brought up Morales in her interview, in which she accused churches of being quick to condemn sexual abuse when it takes place outside their walls, but defensive when such accusations threaten their own organizations.

Most churches retain the belief in the Second Coming — the Church of England Communion service includes the words, «Christ will come again», which everyone is expected to say — yet there is no great expectation that the second coming is about to take place.

Mathison might say that by such a refusal, I am placing myself as an individual above and against the Holy Spirit - guided consensus of the rest of the church, which therefore places me in the category of «heretic.»

From which I infer that the fullest flourishing of women and men takes place in churches and families that have this masculine feel.»

In keeping with its medieval inspiration (and indeed with Gravissimum Educationis) Chavagnes places the liturgical life - which is at the heart of the Church - at the very heart of its own life as a College.

This means that the «revelation of the mystery hidden from endless ages» which had taken place in the Incarnation of Christ continues to occur through the «deeds and words» of the Church.

Cardinal Newman said there were three authorities in the Church: the authority of tradition, the authority of reason and the authority of experience, which he placed respectively in the hierarchy, the university and the body of the faithful.

Just as the Virgin Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.

By the early - to - mid 4th century, the Western Christian Church had placed Christmas on December 25, [17] a date later adopted in the East, [18][19] although some churches celebrate on the December 25 of the older Julian calendar, which corresponds to January in the modern - day Gregorian calendar.

In this emergent electronic era, the most advanced and powerful communication now takes place through media which the church as the interpreter of the revelation of God has not mastered.

When I go through David Kinnaman's research, which reflects just about every concern I express in my «15 Reasons» posts --(young people are leaving the church because they believe it is too exclusive, too combative with science, hyper - political, out - of - touch when it comes to sexuality, and an unsafe place in which to wrestle with doubt)-- I am often met with blank stares.

«In a culture which is increasingly on - line it is the one place in the world which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various churches and Christian organisations.&raquIn a culture which is increasingly on - line it is the one place in the world which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various churches and Christian organisations.&raquin the world which has an international reputation, academic depth and close partnerships with various churches and Christian organisations.»

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

McCormick discusses areas in which his thoughts have shifted: The nature of the church; the church as the people of God; the church as servant; the church as collegial; the church as ecumenical; the ecclesiological nature of the church; importance of lay witness; the teaching competence of the episcopal and papal branch; the church and moral truth; the place of dissent; birth regulation; ecclesial honesty; the dynamic nature of faith.

The basic liturgy of liberalism is the Festival of Reason, which in 1793 placed a Goddess of Reason (who may or may not have been a prostitute conscripted for the occasion, in one of the mocking double entendres of Providence) on the holy altar in the Church of Our Lady in Paris.

Once the shock wore off though, I realized that money abuses and issues, while endemic within churches, still only account for a portion of the many ways in which churches have wounded people and thus there is undoubtedly plenty of people in search of a safe place who do not have any of the same issues that I have with linking money and spirituality, so really you were only excluding a certain portion of people from safety by attaching a price tag to it, those for whom money issues are a sticking point and of course those who simply don't have the extra funds to commit.

Billy Graham comment on the Gay issue in support of Chic - Fil - A president's comment... which I agree with but did not, or has not commented on the Baptist Church denying a black Straight couple a chance to get married in the place they called their cChurch denying a black Straight couple a chance to get married in the place they called their churchchurch?

In many places, church control was an incubus which the college was attempting to throw off, or which it endured merely because the charter made remedial action difficult.

Though many quarters within the churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away - of necessity - in secular life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican, which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting place to be at times.

Arguably, Fellowes has actually missed a dramatic trick, given that church was a great social leveller, which would have placed the earl himself and his lowliest servant in the same congregation (albeit in segregated areas).

Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children by Nicholas P. Cafardi Paulist, 255 pages, $ 27.95 In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in..In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in..in every place and in..in....

Will the Korean churches be willing to place their financial resources in a common pool to which all may have access, so that you may indeed be free to follow in the foot steps of the Suffering Servant, Jesus Christ Our Lord and Saviour?

Roger Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles, for example, is alleged to «have allowed numerous predator priests to remain in ministry,» and then to have placed obstacles in the way of law enforcement authorities, all of which, in the understated words of the report, «did little to enhance the reputation of the Church for transparency and cooperation.»

It does reveal, however, the shift of emphasis which took place in the early centuries of the Church from the Trinity of experience to the Trinity of doctrine.

The woman was interpreted to be God's true Church which would have to flee to a prepared place in the wilderness just before the end of times.

The period of greatest confusion in Protestant conceptions of Church and ministry was marked by the conversion of the room into a place in which organ, choir, pulpit and communion table simultaneously claimed first attention and Akron - plan Sunday School rooms were extruded from an amoebic nucleus.

How that took place in practice is described in some detail in the mission discourse: At the very beginning, before there were sympathizers, when there were no safe houses to which one could turn, much less house churches, the committed few disciples (and no doubt Jesus himself) walked, barefoot and without any supplies, from place to place.

The place in which the minister mainly functions always signalizes the Church's idea of his task.

It seems to be clear that the Church in America in our time like Church in any place at any time is deeply influenced in its institutional forms by the political and economic society with which it lives in conjunction.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaineIn a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

The first thing they did whenever they wished to stop at a particular place, was to erect a tabernacle or temple to their false god for the duration of the time they expected to stay there, and they built this temple in the middle of the site on which they had established themselves, the ark being placed upon an altar such as is used in a church, for the idol wished to imitate our religion in many ways, as we shall afterwards show.10

You redefine church to something other than the NT, then you criticize that (which is to be rightly criticized), and then you offer nothing in its place?