Sentences with phrase «very conservative churches»

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.

But it is not the case that this freedom is complete or even that it is greater in secular institutions than in church ones, except for those of very conservative churches.

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church is very conservative and traditionalist.

Good response... You could have included the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in that... We are a very conservative branch of the Lutheran cChurch Missouri Synod in that... We are a very conservative branch of the Lutheran churchchurch.

The question, however, is whether despite the growth of conservative churches both in Europe and North America and in other parts of the world, and the likelihood that they will remain strong, they offer the key to the future in a world that is changing very quickly.

When I talk to my good friend who is a very conservative Catholic who views taking communion as sacred and every crumb is representative of Christ's body and not one crumb will drop... then compare it to how we do it at church... everyone ripping bread from the same loaf, crumbs everywhere, kids spilling the «wine»... does it really matter... is one more right than the other... one upholds church law on how communion will be performed versus our laid back version.

The sometimes almost desperate conservatives must be taught to understand, not only theoretically but instinctively and in their spiritual life, that the Church does not exist outside time and history; that she is indeed founded on the grace of Christ, but is nevertheless a very human institution burdened by history.

But Juhnke also points out that even though Mennonites are becoming increasingly engaged with the broader church, they remain connected in a very real sense with the Amish and other conservative cousins.

Even my very conservative Roman Catholic brother gave me kudos when I said that if nothing else, as a Baptist, my two cherished beliefs were in soul liberty and seperation of church and state... so, if god was there and I was completly wrong not to believe in him, then at least he knew every step of my journey, and in the end my salvation, or lack of it, was between me and god.

Now these very same conservative evangelical Christian, god - fearing church goers, are willing to sleep with the enemy, the very group the preached so hard against, «Mormonism.»

For Ammerman, the notion that strong beliefs determine the success of churches suggests «a very Protestant and for that matter a very conservative Protestant way of understanding the strength of religion.

You can look at the Episcopalians and the United Church of Christ and find some congregations that are doing very well, but they tend to be more conservative theologically.»

In the more conservative churches sin has been generally conceived as a state of inherited Adamic guilt, not very sharply defined or related to the moral life, but nevertheless with some moral content in the individual's personal relations.

But since I am a leader in a conservative church, I have to be very careful about it.

It is unlikely that either churches that are very conservative and thoroughly displeased with the directions their denominations are taking, or churches that are radical «do - it - ourselvers» and think the national bodies are still in the Middle Ages, will want to buy into the systems, though they could use much of what will be developed.

Recently I gave a lecture at a university that is identified with a very conservative Christian church.

Yet this very analysis of why conservative churches are growing assumes the presumptions of liberal social theory and practice that I am suggesting is the source of our difficulty.

As expected, most very large churches are conservative in theology, with 48 percent seeing themselves as evangelical, another 25 percent as charismatic or Pentecostal.

I have regularly attended a couple of very conservative, fundamental (baptistic in doctrin and practice) churches aver tha last 33 years, and have observed some of what nakedpastor refers to here — the apparent judging and expecting of some behavior.

«Lake Hills is a very strong church, and I've seen him get stronger in his faith,» says Shackelford, the conservative Texas activist.

Though you have to consider that Lutheran's have two synods: The Missouri Synod and Evangelical Church of America, one is very socially conservative and latter is growing more like the Lutheran Church in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany.

I spent many years very involved in an uber conservative Christian church.

I am a conservative and at my church the Pastor reads something Jesus said every Sunday as the whole Bible is His word read that in the very first chapter of John and many other places.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

In Evangelical churches, people can stay during hours to discuss and are (generally) very kind to each others but their theology is way too conservative for me.

At the very time when some observers contended that the «mainline churches» were stagnating while the more conservative ones were growing, the man who occupied the most visible Protestant pulpit in America showed, Sunday after Sunday, that the mainline had not become a sideline.

Given the overwhelming evangelical ambience of the Sunbelt, however, and the safe assumption that the RCA must reflect that attitude in order to succeed in the area, it is not difficult to predict that what has been the dominant theological position of the church may very well in the next ten years become a minority one as the conservative evangelicalism of the new Sunbelt churches joins forces with the existing strength of that position in the midwest.

Most would describe my church as very conservative, but you will not find these ideas there.

That said I was very pleased to read that Nick emphasised that gay marriage will not be forced on churches or other religions, something I believe is a truly Conservative position.

As our church is very conservative, wedding gowns should not be too revealing and hence Digio Bridal fits our criteria fully.

Deniers are always so very * Polite * too, but that is only because they are * really nice * conservatives and church - goers.