Sentences with phrase «shared practices of church»

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Love, joy, peace, and hope become flesh «through the practices of the Church: witness, catechesis, baptism, prayer, friendship, hospitality, admonition, penance, confession, praise, reading scripture, preaching, sharing peace, sharing food, washing feet.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

Never one to shy away from the hard questions, Bessey engages critically with Scripture and church practices that are often used against full equality and shares how following Jesus made a feminist out of her.

An alliance between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which share much more in terms of practice and spirituality, would make more sense.

Though early Christian exegesis may on first reading appear idiosyncratic and arbitrary, it arose within the life of the Church and was practiced within a tradition of shared beliefs and practices, guided by the Church's faith as expressed in the creed.

While in no way wishing to suggest that anyone should not «celebrate» the Lord's Supper with a bit of bread or cracker and a few drops of juice or wine, as seems to be the common practice in many churches, may I share some of the ways we choose to celebrate and remember our Lord with food and drink?

Outside of Jerusalem the church did not adopt such a radical practice of sharing communal resources, but the special concern for the poor was continued.

While I share your concerns and disillusionment with much of what is practiced (or not practiced) in «traditional churches», you don't seriously believe that the «Open Circle» concept is the solution do you?

Probably this reflects a time when the sharing of goods, as practiced at first in the church at Jerusalem, was coming to be regarded as requisite only for a limited inner circle of disciples.

The inability of the churches mutually to recognize their various practices of baptism as sharing in the one baptism, and their actual dividedness in spite of mutual baptismal recognition, have given dramatic visibility to the broken witness of the Church.

About 13 percent of evangelicals say they support BLM, less than half the share of practicing Christians (28 %) or those who attended church in the past week (30 %) who also do so.

Attention to particular congregations, when they are understood in terms of the practice of the public and universally shared worship of God, could only be carried on by reference to the «greater church.»

Renewing a shared faith in the eucharistic presence of Christ requires the leadership's actual collaboration and genuine communion with all baptized Catholics, including those who feel excluded from equal participation in the life of the church by virtue of their exclusion from priesthood, their racial or ethnic background, or their incomplete formation in the practices and ethical norms of the tradition.

In sparsely settled regions where only a handful of Baptist churches are present, the mission should be ecumenically extended to include other denominations that share congregational practice and polity; e.g., the United Church of Christ, the Brethren, the Disciples, the Quakers.

There is abundant evidence that Catholics in this country do sincerely believe in democracy and practice this belief, but I do not see how they themselves can deny that their polity poses a problem for democracy that is not posed by churches which make their decisions in regard to public policy by processes of open discussion in which both clergy and laymen share.

What gifts from this practice would you want to share with the rest of the church?

Even the churchless church has its share of outcasts and sellouts; people who don't practice the fundamentals of atheism are ostracized amongst the atheist church, for not being true to the faith.