"To join the church" typically refers to the act of formally becoming a member of a religious community or organization. It means committing yourself to the beliefs, practices, and values of that particular church and participating in its activities and services.
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Many older volunteers - and plenty of younger ones too -
join their churches in service projects in the local neighborhood or halfway around the world.
30 years ago black people could
n't join the church because they came from the devil so what do you mean by um what?
If parents present their children for baptism because it is a family ritual, the same parents probably will want their children to formally
join the church because it is a family tradition.
I'd gladly
join his church as long as there are no rituals, mandatory meetings, or requirement to worship a particular deity.
If you expected me to argue that you should
join a church simply because you are «not good if detached,» you guessed wrong.
If his
daughter joined the church and got married in the temple, he would not be able to attend that temple wedding, unless he joined as well.
Still other studies have shown that more than 80 our of 100 people who have
joined the church in recent years came because of the word of a friend of relative.
Membership patterns in most denominations encourage adults to
join a church without any serious preparation for living a Christian way of life.
They believe that they are giving deceased persons an opportunity to choose: «Mormons believe that baptism provides the deceased with the opportunity to
join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints, but not the obligation.
In this century, O. Kandasamy Chetty of the Madras Christian College was a disciple of Christ and kept himself in spiritual fellowship with the fellow - disciples without
joining the church by baptism.
But the barriers erected by class - based stratification are closely related to those which keep working - class parents
from joining churches or forming stable families.
In 2008, Yang entered graduate school at Harvard, where she rotated through three labs
before joining Church's.
Years later, my
sister joined the church when her 10 year old daughter wanted to go because all her little friends were mormon.
As a result, the Church was able to influence laws, enforce its morality and even coerce people
into joining the Church.
Under these circumstances, when
adults join a church after attending a few semioptional new member classes, there is no reason to expect their commitment to be any more than that of teen communicants.
Just like
Christians join churches, not because they want to be a little clone of the pastor or a propaganda / doctrine - spewing instrument, but because they want to be part of a group where they are accepted.
I hope he is able to handle all the fame and stay on track now... even
join a Church close to his new home!
The reasoning, as was explained to me was that it was thought a good shepherd could not lead if distracted by his own familial flock [this aside from the fact that a youngest son in a family would typically not inherit enough to support a family and was therefore sent to
join a church].
He has
recently joined our church, and he told me some weeks ago that if there were ever any opportunities for serious theological discussion he would like to be included; so I told him about tonight.
Some ministers, I suspect, would plead with you to
join a church mainly because your own spiritual faith and life need the sustenance of Christian fellowship.