Sentences with phrase «vast number of churches»

But considering the vast number of churches that do not acknowledge the problem, it seems that most denominational bodies and local congregations are in denial — the primary symptom of a dysfunctional person, organization or system — even though one substance - abusing minister can sicken, dishearten and dispirit an entire church just as one alcoholic can infect an entire household.

You neglect to mention the vast number of churches torched by rival christian groups.

The church has great power and influence in society, and our presence is evident by the vast number of church buildings and Christian slogans that dot our cultural landscape, but few Christians have progressed much past a milk diet of basic Christian truths.

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In contrast, traditional Catholic churches serve vast numbers of people who have little or nothing in common, and they are often impersonal «supermarkets for the sacraments,» as some liberation theologians call them.

I also agree that the vast number of interpretations in Church history makes that very difficult, if we are to use the Scriptures as a standard.

And so likewise among the Bactrians and Huns and Persians, and the rest of the Indians, and among Persarmenians and Greeks and Elamites, and throughout the whole land of Persia, there is an infinite number of Churches with bishops, and a vast multitude of Christian people, and they have many martyrs and recluses leading a monastic life.

Perhaps one could call it a simplification of and variation on the English class - system which had a hereditary monarchy on top, followed in descending succession by clearly demarked classifications of nobility, a complex church hierarchy, a landed gentry, a rising merchant class, simple yeomen, and vast numbers of unfranchised people who fitted none of those categories.

With new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches, revivalism poured outward through home and foreign missions as well as a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform, not forgetting that the message was for all of life.

Thus the new life of the Spirit pulsating through the Churches was released by revivalism and poured through home and foreign missions and a vast number of societies for benevolence and reform.

Most of the very conservative churches still use the King James version and it is this version which is distributed in such vast numbers by the British and American Bible Societies.

The number of institutions that potentially forge links in this chain — public, private, and personal — is vast, spanning families, churches, scout troops, Little League, police departments, the armed services, and countless others.

If you track attendance at your church (and who doesn't), the vast majority of church leaders are tracking numbers that probably bother them.