Sentences with phrase «small number of churches»

The attitude of absolute acceptance of homosexuals has been put into practice by a small number of churches.

«The first iteration of the mandate in 2011 created an onerous burden for institutions that conscientiously object to providing contraceptives and / or abortifacients for religious reasons, as it contained only a very narrow exemption that applied to a small number of churches,» stated the council.

Pastor Stan Weatherford told WLBT TV in Jackson he was surprised when a small number of church members opposed holding the wedding at the church.

There are a small number of church related organizations that technically fit the bill, but they don't promote themselves this way and they only tend to focus on their own community.

Not exact matches

Unlike the Catholic Church's old Index of Forbidden Books, which specified a relatively small number of offenders, the Index of Approved Books forbids all books that are not explicitly approved.

But this growth and the change that has resulted from large numbers of refugees converting to Christianity can present challenges for smaller churches.

Most churches just kind of shrug their shoulders and pull a number out of the air, generally a fairly low number if the church is small...

The number of Christians remains small, but Christian schools (kindergarten through university) and leaders are disproportionately influential and Christian churches are a well - established part of the present scene.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

Although the popular Czech Church was quite small, the number of converts and sympathizers grew» especially among youth and the intelligentsia, and in the larger towns.

Although conversion results are unknown — only Christians who convert to Islam are news items — foreign church funds do sustain the social service projects for the refugees, whether Muslim Afghans or the smaller numbers of» Iraqi and Iranian Christian refugees.

Eugene's small number of Christians (it has the fewest churches for a city its size in America) know the church, as do the colorful assortment of folks who stop by for pizza, coffee, books or conversation.

Even though many, provisions have been made for the retarded, such as special church school classes, camps and conferences, confirmation classes, and so forth, they only reach a small percentage of the number that could benefit from such help.

«8 Yet an increasing, albeit small, number of evangelicals are suggesting that the church's theological position regarding homosexuality must be rethought.

Robert C. Leslie, a leader in the field of group pastoral counseling, has observed: «One of the healthiest signs of renewal in the life of the church is the increasing number of small, intimate, sharing groups which are springing up on all sides.»

As The Economist itself reports, the 630 Catholic hospitals make up 11 percent of the nation's total, and the Church owns «a similar number of smaller health facilities».

This smacks to many of a deep - seated hatred of homosexuals, rather than of a recommitment to biblical principles of marriage, especially in light of the small number of homosexuals who seek to be married in the Church compared with the large numbers of heterosexual Christians who have actively sought divorce.

The African indigenous church gatherings tend to be smaller, but the total number of different African independent church groups has multiplied well beyond 3,000, representing millions of blacks.

Robert Leslie, a pioneer in using small groups in the church, now reports: «An increasing number of people are finding new meaning in their church life through small sharing groups.

The church bulletin described a large number of small group Bible studies, all led by men.

When you add in factors like weekly church attendance, Sunday school and / or small group, understanding of historic Christian doctrine, those divorce numbers in the «Christian community» go WAAAAY down.

As Wade Clark Roof points out in a recent study, this neglect will lead to «a crisis of plausibility» resulting in alienation of growing numbers of persons and finally in the church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6church's representing a very small minority (Community and Commitment: Religious Plausibility in a Liberal Protestant Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6Church [Elsevier, 1978], pp. 6 - 9).

The number of students who arrive at today's university bringing a sense of the church's global social mission is small indeed.

A small number of national churches and synagogues maintain special aging offices, with staffs and budgets, and some of these Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant and Catholic bodies are members of the National Interfaith Coalition on Aging.

In today's economy there are many small churches seeking fresh seminary graduates to be their pastors, and there continue to be fair numbers of openings for assistant or associate pastors.

In almost any denomination, in any part of the country, one finds a similar pattern: a few large churches with strength and resources to spare, and a big number of extremely small, weak churches.

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.»

It was a lady with an kind, understanding voice who answered the phone at the number in the back of the book, «Recovering from Churches that Abuse» that put me onto Ezekiel 34, which I read through tears which made it nearly impossible to see that gave my soul the smallest ray of light and an even smaller feeling of hope.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard Church is facing very hard times.

I think I like that size because (a) it reminds me of the small country churches my grandparents attended (and my grandfather would sometimes «speak» at, since they often couldn't afford a full - time clergy, so were at the whims of circuit riders), and (b) because that gives me a «monkeysphere» (a folksy explanation of Dunbar's number).

Though it has had almost no strength in the CRC and only a small representation in the RCA, it has had a much larger effect on the worship of both churches than its numbers would seem to indicate.

Church says that genome - editing techniques will remain the go - to choice for most applications that require a small number of genetic alterations, whereas genome design will be useful for specialized applications, such as recoding an entire genome to incorporate new amino acids.

It's hard to gauge how many Americans fit this description, but if one uses the number of Evangelical Christians, it's a much smaller figure than the one Tilson's banking on (about 20 % of Americans are affiliated with Evangelical churches).

For example, the Peterborough Diocese Education Trust has «a higher - than - average number of smaller schools» simply because church schools tend to be smaller.

A smaller number of our trainers train at boys and girls clubs, military (DOD) schools, as well as at churches and private and Christian schools.

Yet, a peak down one of the palm tree lined alleys off of Largo do Senado will reveal a number of well - hidden Portuguese style restaurants, churches, and a even a small fountain depicting the Virgin Mary.

This resort is located on the north coast of Jamaica, an island nation that is smaller than the state of Connecticut, but has the largest number of churches per square kilometer.

My first long hike began the next morning as I ventured west, past a number of little churches (India is much more Christian than I expected) and away from the main roads into thicker forests along progressively smaller paths.

«Religion» also includes «religious beliefs that are new, uncommon, not part of a formal church or sect, only subscribed to by a small number of people, or that seem illogical or unreasonable to others.»