Others have informal
relationships with a local church and some haven't attended a local church in years.
Not exact matches
Welcoming her comments, Stewardship's chair of conferences, Rev David Senior, said: «The Minister has also invited responses from
churches and charities and is keen to hear from those who might feel that are facing difficulties in their
relationships with national or
local Government, or government agencies on the ground of their faith.
This book is showing those who want to be a member of a
local church how they can be a better member and in so doing having a deeper
relationship with Christ.
Even though the
Church of Rome acquired particular respect because of its association
with the apostles Peter and Paul and eventually became the point of reference for the whole
Church, the
relationship among the
local churches and
with Rome was not understood in the sense of jurisdictional superiority or subordination.
Most of the initiative for
relationship with these groups still lies in Christian hands, and many
local churches can take such initiative.
In this, he is competing not only
with the viewer's other personal
relationships and perhaps his or her
relationship to a
local church, but also
with the other broadcasters who are struggling to gain the loyalty of the same viewer and who are prepared to offer even better «faith products» in order to gain the viewer's support for themselves.
If the paid - time broadcasters see themselves as being complementary to the
local church, as they claim to do, there is little evidence of a genuine effort on their part to develop a working
relationship with the
churches, particularly in the area of ongoing care.
This inability of mass communication to stimulate formation of novel
relationships with the
church has been demonstrated in several other studies of mass campaigns, even when the campaigning organization works closely
with the
local churches.
Btw, I am one of the young 20 somethings spoken for in this article, and I very much enjoy the access to information about the Bible I can find online, and the connections to
local and global ministries and connecting on facebook
with my * real *
church friends, but I am 100 % committed to my real life
church and know that I can not be an authentic Christian without authentic
relationships!
Almost all its canons dealt
with episcopacy and were authoritatively made a part of canon law by the Council of Chalcedon.4 These canons made clear that the bishops of a province, meeting semiannually in synod under the presidency of their metropolitan, constituted a collegium
with a
relationship to the metropolitan much like that of the second - century collegiate presbytery in relation to the bishop of the
local church.
One unique element of
Relationship For Better's involvement in the community of Monrovia is its engagement
with local churches.