Sentences with phrase «relationships with a local church»

Others have informal relationships with a local church and some haven't attended a local church in years.

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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.