Sentences with phrase «primary purpose of the church»

While it is true that God commands believers to engage in loving interaction and dialogue with unbelievers for the purpose of persuading them that Jesus is indeed the Christ, the primary purpose of the church is for the equipping of believers, not unbelievers, for this work of service in the world.

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While the primary purpose of a quinquennial General Conference session is to conduct business, it is also a celebration of Adventism and its progress; a «fair» where church publishers, departments, educational and medical institutions and unofficial «self - supporting ministries» show their wares and garner support; an old - fashioned revival meeting; and a «family gathering» where church employees, in particular, meet former schoolmates and colleagues.

Synan goes so far as to suggest occasionally that the primary purpose of classical Pentecostal churches in the providence of God was to preserve and mediate the Pentecostal teachings to the rest of Christendom.

And I further assume that the primary purpose of pastoring a church is to create the conditions where fellowship is possible and encouraged.

I assume that the primary purpose of joining a church is to find fellowship.

The devotionof the Seven Churches, in fact, brings together various of the themes we have already discerned in looking at St Philip's methods: it was distinctively Christian and prayerful, allowed for healthy exercise and good spirits alongside its primary purpose of pilgrimage, and was a practical way of getting ordinary young men out of danger's way at a time of potential spiritual hazards.

By holding that the statute did not have an impermissible purpose, that its primary effect was not the advancement of religion, and that it did not require «excessive entanglement» between church and state, the Court sent a signal to the political branches that more creative uses of the structures of civil society (including churches) may now be permissible in the American welfare state.

However, one of the primary functions and purposes of the church is to be the hands, feet, and voice of Jesus in the world, which is impossible when you are all by yourself.

I belonged to a large church where worship was part of the program, but my primary purpose was to hear the message.

«Mission» means «sending,» and it is the central biblical theme describing the purpose of God's action in human history, with the church being the primary agent of God's missionary action.

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