Sentences with phrase «when establishing the church»

We're about to witness firsthand what happens when the established Church compromises its moral authority for the promise of power, and it won't be pretty.

Isn't that when an established church wants to do a church plant?

Not exact matches

Similarly, mistranslation of the greek and quoting out of historical, cultural and topical context has turned Paul into a misogynist when in fact he, like his Messiah, were revolutionary in their teachings, establishing in the church God's original design for man (including the restoration of gender equality and proper relations) which was restored through the redemptive work of the cross.

♦ Carl Trueman argues that confessions establish constitutional restraints on church power: «In an age when words, especially words that make truth claims, are always suspected of being part of some manipulative power game, it is perhaps counterintuitive to think of confessions as delimiting the power of the church.

IT is the only church that follows the same organization that Christ established when he was on the earth.

Mormons claim to be a complete restoration of the church of Jesus Christ as He established when on the Earth.

The pregnancy was overshadowed by all the upset at church with the pastor leaving and the church splitting, and although we did go back for a short while when they had a new pastor, we moved to a more established church afterwards.

While the fundamentalist experience on this question has been quite slow in allowing the ministry of women, lagging far behind the churches of the mainstream, the Wesleyan churches have often been the pioneers of this practice, especially in the nineteenth century when the conservative Wesleyan churches were far in advance of the more established denominations.

Polanyi places this idea in historical context: «when the supernatural authority of laws, churches and sacred texts had waned or collapsed, man tried to avoid the emptiness of mere self - assertion by establishing over himself the authority of experience and reason.»

Yet, in the fourth Gospel, we are told that when Jesus joined the disciples in the upper room after the resurrection «he breathed on them and said to them, «Receive the Holy Spirit»» (John 20:22), establishing a direct (and almost too obvious) connection between him and the amazing Power of the early church.

When said in churches, they establish the common creed of core beliefs that identify one faith group from others.

He grew up in the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Minnesota and had an established career in software development consulting when he felt called to ministry.

Not one country had been spared these ravages in one manner or another and it was only when a relative peace between the Church and the world was established towards the end of the 19th century that the Church could begin once more to reconstruct its intellectual and physical structures.

Yet the Church went on, the most nearly stable and inclusive institution in an age when war was chronic and only a few of the strongest princes could establish, and then only temporarily and over a limited area, some semblance of order.

From 1607 until 1789 Protestant churches were more often than not legally established, and after disestablishment they were reestablished in custom, mores, ethos and clout — and remained so when Silcox and Fisher wrote and continued so symbolically until the election of John F. Kennedy in 1960.

When the American Revolution was completed, not only had the Established Church of England been rejected, but, more important, the very idea of Establishment had been discarded in principle by the new Constitution.

We question how policy is being made when the established separation of church and state is only loosely upheld.

After forty years of persecutions, the Church was in a markedly weak state when it faced the mountain of new tasks in the new society, and it was not able to establish its priorities and take advantage of its new possibilities.

When Martin Luther posted his famous 95 theses on the door of the castle church in Wittenberg in 1517, printed books and pamphlets were already well established as a dominant medium of communication.

It was regarded with great suspicion, particularly when it dared to question established truth, and in the popular mind it could not be clearly distinguished from the practices of the magician, which were rightly frowned upon by the church.

Within six years after landing, the Puritans established a college, the first in America, in order «to advance learning and to perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.»

When the Church of South India was formed shortly after World War II out of the various mainline denominational churches established by Western missionaries in the previous century, the entire ecclesiastical world celebrated.

Marx rarely misses the opportunity to vent his sarcasm at the self - seeking of the religious institutions as when he notes in Capital that «the English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income.

When Anglican bishops from Nigeria announced that they were going to establish episcopal oversight for local churches that could not in conscience remain in the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori vigorously protested.

The only movement there should be is the «separation of church and state movement» — why is the idea of «God» so pervasive when the government is not supposed to establish a religion?

When the English crown established the Church of England as the official religion of the realm, the activity of worship was married to the emotion of patriotism.

Churches, when once established, live at second hand upon tradition; but the founders of every church owed their power originally to the fact of their direct personal communion with the divine.

He has since given many signs of his support for the present pope; when many of his episcopal brethren were doing everything they could to undermine the motu proprio establishing the right to celebrate the «old Mass», he made clear his belief that the rite of John XXIII «is not a relic, not a reverting to the past, but part of the living tradition of the Church».»

The writer indicates that God's relationship to the church was established when the love of God was visible for a time in Jesus Christ.

We live, it is evident, in a time of hostility when the church is imperiled not only by an external worldliness but by one that has established itself within the Christian camp.

I have just alluded to the impression established in the early church, certainly as early as the Gospel of Mark, that Jesus was speaking of himself when he referred to the eschatological Son of Man.

But when they are devoted to establishing growing churches, then they create partners in the task of proclaiming the Gospel, making disciples of all people and teaching them all things commanded by our Lord».11 McGavran was critical of the social activities of missions as a preparation for the Gospel.

«More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.

As Anderson shows, all the best and true Catholic reformers — whatever their political views or prudential decisions — were always strong proponents of established Church doctrine, and fierce disciplinarians when it came to upholding Church teaching, particularly in the area of sexual morality (a main target of today's «reformers»).

When I started travelling to the UK in the late 1970s I was surprised at how the movement seemed to touch not only all of the established churches, but also gave birth to a diverse variety of new house churches such as Pioneer and Ichthus Christian Fellowship.

In a time when Christians are endeavouring to establish full recognition of each other's Churches various solutions appear to be possible.

Back in the first century when the apostle Paul was establishing the first Christian churches, only pagans and Jews went for pharmakia products being pushed by Greek medical doctors and their trained associates in other lands.

These claims are always contested — even when they come from established state churches.

When Delaine and I took on our first assignment — in Argentina — we found an already well - established national church, with a publishing house, a seminary and other educational institutions run by capable administrators.

When the churches establish commissions which engage in thorough and conscientious study, the general membership is unaffected by their arguments.

But in the case of the East Syrian (Persian) church, there came into existence some sort of ecclesiastical relationship between it and the Indian church from a very early date, though it is difficult to say when this relationship was established.

The university traces its origins to the Middle Ages, when most universities were established by the church to perform a role in society defined and desired by the church.

The Church has always understood that the «form» of the sacrament was established by Christ when he was baptised in the Jordan, and that the Trinity was present at Christ's baptism, because the Father spoke, the Son descended into the water, and Holy Spirit appeared (Mt 3:16 - 17).

It is an inescapable fact that when free - church men and established - church men undertake to frame a joint statement about the relations of church and state, they can come to agreement only by a studied ambiguity or by a cautious avoidance of controversial aspects of the question.

I have to admit that I have a knee jerk reaction to the goat / ram - as - devil presentation, as I understand that such imagery was a way for the early Established church to villianize pagans via propaganda... so when I see it used today as continued propaganda, I tend to be offended.

This is the reverse of what we are familiar with today, when the founding churches send money to support the missionary churches they have established.

When McIntyre discovered that the first general assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) was to be held in Amsterdam in 1948, he arranged to arrive a few weeks earlier to establish his own counter-movement, the International Council of Christian Churches.

In some respects Christianity is confronted with a greater menace than in the tragic decades when the triumphant Arabs, champions of a new religion, Islam, were establishing governments in what had been professedly Christian areas and through the machinery of the state were slowly strangling the churches and eradicating Christianity.

When John Wesley traveled all over England, declaring the gospel of Christ in the fields and on the village commons, in the streets of large towns and in public places in the countryside, he was still acting as an ordained minister of the Church and he was still preaching in the Church — although the authorities of the Established Church of England, regrettably, did not seem willing to recognize what should have been a patent and wonderful fact.