Sentences with phrase «required as the church»

Requiring us as a Church to be forced to participate in covering birth control plans that go against our fundamental belief.

Finally, we would be required as the church to recognize the destiny we share with all humanity.

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Therefore, the poor mental health (highly - prevalent depression) does not stem from a lack of exercise, smoking or drinking as required by the LDS Church Word of Wisdom dictates.The church leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of chiChurch Word of Wisdom dictates.The church leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of chichurch leaders do stress to get married early and to have lots of children.

The dioceses and the parish churches have usually been held exempt by the courts, but general Catholic institutions, precisely as they are not churches, are increasingly being required to carry insurance that covers things to which they object: abortion for their employees, for example.

The question of Catholic institutions like Notre Dame — their odd relation to the Church and their peculiar relation to the nation — is already pressing on us, and it requires no great leap to predict that, over the next decade, this question will dominate the public stage as the central Catholic problem of our time: the locus of media attention and the flashpoint for the arguments of Catholics with one another.

To read it properly, to ascertain even its literal sense, required that one be a loyal son of the Church, humbly disposed toward the sacred page, and attuned spiritually to the «overarching sacred sense» as witnessed in the life of the Church.

At least as troubling is the suggestion of the guidelines that «constitutionality and related matters» require the neutering of the Church's witness on issues of moral moment in the political arena.

Perform the ritual, say the «magic words» as required by your church and all will be perfect... but oops, if you don't perform that ritual, all is lost.

Why must an LDS Mormon be required by the church to give 10 % of their income to the church on a regular basis as a requirement for a temple pass from your ward Bishop?

BTW, although governments give religions certain tax breaks (because they provide services that the government otherwise would have to provide, as well as promote overall stability that contribute to the stability of civilization), the LDS Church (the one headquartered in Salt Lake City) pays many taxes that it is not legally required to pay.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

They recently gave a Sunday morning talk at a local church on their experiences (or as Don says, «I realized in Mozambique that real change in our world first requires real change in us — in me and in you».

And whilst I understand concerns surrounding institutionalisation of the church we can't get away from the fact for a community to function effectively requires structure, strategy and systems as well as values and vision to carry out its purpose's.

Asylum seekers who have converted to Christianity are required to answer technical questions on the faith such as the difference between the Orthodox and Protestant Churches.

It does not require that you do not go to Church or Pray (I do both as an Atheist).

That's because all Mormons in good standing with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints are required to give 10 % of their salaries as a tithe.

It did not require each person to proclaim a reading, hold up a banner or do a dance; active participation in the divine work celebrated at the altar meant something deeper for St Paul, as indeed for the Fathers of the first five centuries of the life of the Church.

The servant model doesn't set as a priority requiring others to come help the church / leadership / pastor fulfill their mission.

As long as churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe iAs long as churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe ias churches and other special interest groups receive tax exempt status, we are ALL being required to pay for things we don't believe in.

but the government has every right and ability to treat the church the same as every other employer and require tehm to provide to their employees teh same benefits as all other employers.

Prayer is vital, and gathering with other believers is vital, and praying together with others is vital, but none of this requires a regularly scheduled prayer meeting, as practiced in some churches today.

According to Balthasar everything in the Church is a movement between these two principles (Marian and Petrine): the Church as the bride of Christ is the extension and product of the living reality of Christ, which requires an essential structure (sacraments and ministry, which are founded by Christ Himself).

Let me make a bold suggestion — and here, given the number of marriage breakdowns in the Church today, my intention is perhaps as much to indicate the strength of the response required as to make a realistic proposal for change.

Of course, it might become quickly obvious that most of what the church required from you as a pastor was really not that important after all, and no one will do it.

It hardly required it if it was to be carried by his messengers and read by them as from him in the assembled churches they visited.

I think as long as school children are required to hear «under god» in school, then every Church in country should have a billboard in front of it saying «There is no Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or god.»

«Through personal stories, proven experience and a thorough analysis of the biblical text, Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.&Church illustrates both the biblical mandate for the multi-ethnic church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.&church as well as the seven core commitments required to bring it about.»

These seven sacraments allow us to genuinely encounter Christ again and again, as we require for our good and the good of the Church.

As you may know, Sovereign Grace Ministries, an association of Reformed church plants, is facing a significant lawsuit that alleges church leaders covered up the abuse of children by discouraging parents from reporting abuse to authorities and requiring victims to forgive their abusers in person.

«Jesus Christ, our Lord and God, when he was about to offer himself once on the altar of the Cross to God the Father, making intercession by means of his death, so that he might gain there an eternal redemption, since his priesthood was not to be extinguished by death, at the last Supper, «on the night that he was handed over», left to his beloved Spouse the Church a visible sacrifice, such as the nature of man requires, by which the bloody sacrifice achieved once upon the Cross might be represented and its memory endure until the end of the age, and its saving power be applied to the remission of those sins which are daily committed by us.»

Nygren gives an important suggestion about the history of doctrine when he says that the Church Fathers were saved from falling completely into a Greek pattern of thought by the three biblical assertions of Creation, Incarnation, and Resurrection.32 But rather than conclude, as Nygren does, that these themes require us to reject all metaphysics, why not say that they require us to reconsider our metaphysics?

In the first place it can be taken as axiomatic in the Catholic view of faith that where the Church's magisterium has once unambiguously required at any time an absolute, ultimate and unconditional assent of faith to a definite doctrine as revealed by God, the doctrine in question is no longer subject to revision and is irrevocable.

They are not really against birth control, as they are against using tax - payer dollars to pay for birth control, or the government requiring churches and religious organizations to offer birth control as part of their group medical insurance plans.

EPC requires all churches to hold to «essential» tenets of the Christian faith, but allows each congregation freedom in forming opinions on «nonessential» matters, such as whether women can be elected as deacons and elders.

Campbell: The Stamford church, founded in 1635 was slipping when I came — as are many downtown churches — and it became clear to me that communication, especially two - way feedback, was required to turn the congregation around.

Darby felt a literal interpretation of the scriptures required a literal Israel as separate and distinct from the church (the body of Christ).

With respect to doctrinal questions (as distinct from ethical questions) I think there is far too much emphasis in most churches on what you are required to believe, which results in relationship - ending events over inconsequential stuff.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

Certainly fundamental changes would be required of the churches if they were to do this: we would have to put truth before comfort; we would have to listen to the losers, the jobless, the homeless, the unsuccessful, the ostracized; we would have to leave the sanctuary and enter the marketplace, and learn through participation how to contemplate the human condition as Jesus did: with compassion.

But it would require accepting others» authority, just as your authority is accepted in your congregation, to manage their churches in accordance with their beliefs and faithful to their understanding.

The estrangement of Vanderbilt from the church required two antipathetic forces: an oppressively uncomprehending atmosphere among church officers, and an administrator decisive and deft enough to remove them as the last obstacles to his pursuit of excellence for the college or university.

Churches are required to be agents of resistance to genocide or any other kind of social evil, as a basic expression of faithfulness to their God, their sacred scriptures and their social responsibility.

Under ordinances forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, churches have been taken to court for refusing to hire a homosexual as church organist or as teacher in the church school, ministries to the poor have lost their funding when they refused to tolerate homosexual behavior within their programs, and a Jesuit university was required to give recognition and support to a gay rights group.

And as much as I find it somewhat distasteful that anyone limit participation in church life to only those who do what the pastor tells them, to me, unity wouldn't require you to allow me to be involved in your church.

The activity of the Church as a priesthood making intercession for all men, offering thanks and praise on behalf of all, now requires the minister's devoted leadership in a particular way.

That God is love, and love requires social justice is a constant teaching of the Fathers of the Early Church such as Clement of Alexandria, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom, Ambrose and Augustine.

He's in a civil partnership, but hasn't spent time publicly objecting to the Church of England's guidelines which require him — as a gay man — to be celibate.

It is precisely our commitment to the truth that is always beyond our secure apprehension that requires us to respect those who offer alternative accounts of the truth, both within the Church as well as outside.

As anywhere else in the world, Church initiatives in public education, social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate such matters as licensing, training standards, and financinAs anywhere else in the world, Church initiatives in public education, social ministries, historical commemoration, and establishment of new parishes require Church and state to negotiate such matters as licensing, training standards, and financinas licensing, training standards, and financing.