Sentences with phrase «small churches exist»

Few Protestants seem to realize how very many small churches exist, and what a drain they are on the resources of the larger congregations.

Our small church exists to reach people who will be reached by a small church.

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In every church and every community a considerable percentage of «normal» people exist as emotional cripples, living half - lives at only a small fraction of their potentialities.

In bondage to this inadequate understanding, we interpret any small success or reversal of existing negative trends in church schooling as a confirmation of the old paradigm's validity.

«Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world - that let God in,» he told Peter Seewald in an interview for the book, «Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the End of the Millenium.&Church at the End of the Millenium.»

Within this small group there exist 256 church organizations and 278 Christian foundations.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

Pope Benedict: «Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the church's history where Christianity will be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, seemingly insignificant groups.»

It is here where the small church, the local educator, the niche business are able to find a new global market without depending up on the existing hierachies and gatekeepers.