Sentences with phrase «places upon the church»

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Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

But the most frequently voiced feeling in the recollections was the sense that some sort of a moral demand had been placed upon the ministers: «The church had an obligation to be involved in the voter rights struggle.»

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

The girl had to be treated in hospital for her injuries after an assault allegedly took place in the grounds of All Saints Church in Burton - upon - Trent, Staffordshire, on January 23.

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.

Some people can live in such tension and find it fruitful, but many find it bewildering, and the church as a whole, even when it has goodwill toward the many claims placed upon it, becomes confused about its mission.

Upon the failure of the Temple, the early church in effect returned to tents, for «Christianity had no identifiable places of assembly for at least two hundred years.

In its report, the commission acknowledged the significance placed upon the confidentiality of religious confessions, particularly by the Catholic Church.

In his second book, he talks about the politics, binding nature and religious slavery the VISION places upon both pastor and people in church culture.

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

In the case of Christianity, the Gospel moved from the great centres of the Roman Empire such as Antioch or Rome to the places outside of the Roman Empire and Christian communities thus formed were dependent upon the churches in the Roman Empire for their ecclesiastical life.

The papacy is infallable, and his holiness the Pope stands in the place of St. Peter — the rock upon which Jesus built his church.

More emphasis needs to be placed upon the difference between the function of the purely voluntary group, such as one finds in a church, and the controlled and not so voluntary group found in the classes of a theological school.

Hundreds of years of Christian preaching have taken place in such a context; and while it is properly asserted that the erosion from the mind even of the church of the rich referents traditionally clustered about the Easter narratives makes dependence upon them questionable, it must nevertheless be pointed out that a process can be reversed.

And, in the third place, the impact which the Church makes upon the world is mainly in the hands of its laymen.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

It placed a stamp upon American Christianity that remains to the present day — even in the form of Churches that split off as a result of revivalism.

While it can be used to report subjective experience («I felt sublime in church today») it has no place in extrapolating this subjective experience to external assertions about the structure of the universe («I felt sublime in church today, THEREFORE there exists a supernatural agent who acted upon me in a such a way as to make me feel sublime»).

The old educational theory of «regression to norm» will not take place, God willing, before our Polish friends have exerted an influence upon us that is for the good of the Catholic Church here.

He pointed the church men and women toward the upper echelons of their denominations as places to begin their funding drive, at the same time insisting that they also set up a dues - paving system for area congregations that would cost each, depending upon size, from $ 500 to $ 3,000 a year.

I have noted several different ways of understanding congregations — as textures, machines, organisms, and idioms, all necessary approaches, and none diminished by the emphasis this book places upon the last image, that of the local church as a dialect.

After the Second World War, Poland was placed within the communist sphere as a result of the Yalta agreement and the Church found itself in constant confrontation with the communist system imposed upon the country.

«We are certainly seeing higher public interest in this training, and our campaign calls upon decision makers in workplaces and popular public spaces such as arenas, fitness centers, hotels, and churches to place AEDs in the same locations as a fire extinguisher.»