Sentences with phrase «while church bodies»

Not exact matches

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

I shudder to think at what Jesus would have to say about our multi-million dollar church buildings while poor people are living in cardboard boxes all over our cities and selling their bodies to get food.

While as a man, Jesus could only be in one place at one time, as the Head of the church, Jesus can be wherever there are members of His body, the church.

I know that demons can inhabit a human, for I took a lady to church to see a pastor, to take it out of her, I sat there while the pastor prayed over her, finally a black ghostly type, with a person's body, came out of her feet and left the room.

And it is the unified church that is the body of Christ, doing on this earth what he began to do while He was here.

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Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

Much of what we do as a church body is out of ignorance; whether a large church building, or celebrating Christmas and Easter, all while we confuse would - be newcomers with mixed messages of Christ's humility vs church wealth, Christmas trees vs a lowly stable, and egg - laying rabbits vs the empty tomb.

God is, to the church of LDS, a super-advanced soul, who came up with a plan to make us more like him if we're willing to have a body for a little while.

I still think if we want a social institution then churches should support that while keeping the Church (body of Christ i.e. believers) as Christ intended.

While the ancient formula «Outside the Church no salvation» may lend itself to misunderstanding, we agree that there is no salvation apart from the Church, since to be related to Christ is necessarily to be related, in however full or tenuous a manner, to the Church which is his body.

While the teaching contained in Pope John Paul II's theology of the body is teaching from the authentic magisterium of the Catholic Church, it seems not yet to have been read, absorbed, and responded to adequately.

«While we understand that members of the church body will have disagreements, I can say that we are sad that Jon chose to file a lawsuit,» Friends» lawyer John Cone said.

While it is true that many denominational bodies and leaders protested vigorously against our government's Indochina policy, it is all too evident that by and large the local churches failed to confront the theological and moral issues of the war.

While these posts do not exclude meeting together with groups of other believers for whatever purpose, they try to broaden our perspective to help us be the church, the body of Jesus, wherever we are — at work, in the neighborhood, among the poor and homeless, while we're shopping for groceries, with relatives, or wherWhile these posts do not exclude meeting together with groups of other believers for whatever purpose, they try to broaden our perspective to help us be the church, the body of Jesus, wherever we are — at work, in the neighborhood, among the poor and homeless, while we're shopping for groceries, with relatives, or wherwhile we're shopping for groceries, with relatives, or wherever.

While the fragmentation of American churches poses obstacles to the kind of ecclesiastical consensus reached in Germany in the 1930s or the Philippines in the 1980s, some kind of convocation of theologically orthodox bodies could presumably join to consider the duty of Christians under the present order.

A further element in this new conception of reception, and an inheritance from the classical model of reception, is that it understands the agents of this comprehensive process to include all of the members of the Church, while specifying g the particular roles of Church leaders, of the whole body of the faithful, and of theologians.

On the contrary, he charged that the distinction, suggested by Eugene Fisher, between the Church as institution and the Church as the Body of Christ «is exactly as I feared» and means that «the Vatican's final position on the Church's «errors and failures» would be to hold ordinary Christians responsible while maintaining that the institution itself was blameless.»

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

I was taken aback to read Richard John Neuhaus» comments (While We're At It, December 1999) on my April 1999 article in Commentary and my response to Eugene Fisher in the letters section of the same journal (June / July) concerning the distinction between the Church as a human institution and as «the Mystical Body of Christ.»

Around the same time, Greene told Malcolm Muggeridge that Russia only destroyed the Church's body, while America destroyed its soul.

It is with this type of worship that we are concerned in this chapter — and appropriately so, because it is the type of worship which provides the best setting for the preaching of the gospel or Word of God, while at the same time it is the type of worship which best delivers the body of believers from complete dependence upon the minister to whom is committed by the Church both the preaching of the gospel and the conduct of the divine service itself.

So while following some of the ideas in this book may kill church as you know it, they can not touch the church as the Body of Christ.

While, however, the biblical history becomes in principle universal history through the framework in which it is set, it achieved effective universality only in the emergence of the Church as a «catholic» body.

But while the legal situation lasts, can we develop an ecclesiology which can invite to the Lord's Table of the church as congregation of faith, those who acknowledge Jesus Christ as decisive for their lives and are prepared to enter the worshipping congregation and not the communally organized body of Christians?

And the actions of national church bodies belie seriousness, pretending action while only issuing pronouncements which are systematically ignored by the churches, the press, and society.

While you're seeking a church that works for you, remember that being a part of the body of Christ means that we are all on the same team.

While European churches generally depended on semiautonomous missionary societies for the missionary work abroad, most American churches accepted the missionary obligation as a task of the total church body.

But while the church's 8 million members make the United Methodist Church (UMC) the country's second - largest Protestant denomination, another 3.5 million United Methodists worship overseas, and their numbers are growing as the American body shchurch's 8 million members make the United Methodist Church (UMC) the country's second - largest Protestant denomination, another 3.5 million United Methodists worship overseas, and their numbers are growing as the American body shChurch (UMC) the country's second - largest Protestant denomination, another 3.5 million United Methodists worship overseas, and their numbers are growing as the American body shrinks.

The Natural History Museum in Basel led a team of researchers that uncovered the mystery identity of the body, which was discovered in 1975 while renovations were being done on Basel's Barfüsser Church.

Among the filters included are; age, location, and gender, while there is also an advanced search for church denomination, lifestyle preferences as well as body type.

While, in introducing an exception in Article 4 (2) of the Directive, the legislator certainly took into account the special position of churches and other religious and philosophical bodies in the Member States, that exception can not be interpreted in a manner that undermines the general purpose of the Directive, that of non-discrimination, or the right to an effective remedy.

This was hardly necessary to protect collective convictions, since voluntary religious bodies can already decline to host marriage ceremonies (Marriage Act 1949 s 44 (1)(proviso)-RRB-, while the list of Church of England clerical exemptions could easily have been extended.