Sentences with phrase «returned to his church members»

Bishop Eddie Long, the Atlanta pastor who has received massive media attention since four young men accused him of sexual coercion last September, is entangled in a dispute with an entrepreneur over $ 1 million in investments that Long wants returned to his church members.

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As members of the baby boom generation become parents, they have returned to church with their children.

We have heard William Miller's call to the faithful to prepare for Christ's coming on October 22, 1844; Jehovah's Witnesses» declaration that Christ returned invisibly and spiritually in 1914; and Herbert Armstrong's prediction that the end would come in January 1972 — an announcement that led many members of his World Wide Church of God to sell their possessions in preparation for going to Petra (Wadi Musa) in Jordan, believed to be a place of safety for the elect.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

When Paul returned from his third missionary journey to pay his last visit to Jerusalem he still retained the confidence of James and the Jerusalem elders (Acts 21:18 - 20), but the smouldering dislike of many of the church members for his teaching is apparent (Acts 21:21).

Former members are returning to the churches — and new people are attending.

if the members return to the church, then it is saying they support what he was accused of doing.

In fact, David Whitmer never returned to the LDS church that he was a witness for, but joined splinter groups that denied the original LDS church he was first a member of.

As Dean Hoge, Benton Johnson and Donald Luidens have documented in Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers, many young church members have departed, never to return.

«Those church leaders and members who fled into the forest to hide from the attackers are starting to cautiously return to the town.

A spokesman who agreed to be identified only as a «church member» said that the church had attempted to reach out to the couple and that calls were not returned.

This year, two runners will accompany the salmon — running 120 miles along the Snake river over the course of two days in an effort to highlight the limited access the fish now have to their historical spawning grounds.Luke Nelson and Ty Draney — one a member of the US Ski Team and the other a seasoned ultramarathon runner — will begin in the Frank Church / River of No Return Wilderness on September 30 with a plan to cover 75 miles in the first day.