Sentences with phrase «true national church»

Protestantism in particular could not surrender the claim to be a Volkskirche, a true national church and the spiritual custodian of the German people.

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While there is a place for high quality worship services broadcast on true mass media, such programs require a great amount of careful planning and considerable cost, and are tailored to meeting the need for a kind of national worship experience in which those not in church can participate.

Moreover, it rings true to the entrepreneurial experience of many fundamentalist ministers, whose independent churches succeed by dint of their own labor, God's grace and the direct contributions of those in the pews or in front of the television set, unsupported by national denominations analogous to big government.