Sentences with phrase «whole church»
The phrase "whole church" refers to the entire group of people who belong to a specific church or religious community, including both its leaders and its members. Full definition
The Pope does not run whole Church on a daily basis, that is done by the bishop in each diocese.
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Liberation is an almost normative lens through which whole churches are asked to see their mission.
Instead, feeling the problem is too pervasive, they have acquiesced, leaving whole churches and communities paralyzed.
A headstrong figure, the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of a Ross Perot, might emerge and insist that the whole church follow his way or die.
But transitional popes have been known to effect transitions for the whole church.
She met a Jesuit once who said to use condoms, therefore the whole Church should change it's stance.
If we are to judge by the organization of this conference, Rome and bishops and theologians loyal to Rome are not even part of «the whole Church.»
In a letter to Bethge, Bonhoeffer referred to the Pope's decree: «Today the pope has ordered a prayer for peace in the whole church.
You can count on it: a charge that will frequently be made at the conference is that Rome arrogantly presumes to speak for the whole Church.
It's a conference in Washington titled «Future of the American Church: From Impasse to Opportunity; Listening to the Voice of the Whole Church.»
Yet here, we are told, is the «Voice of the Whole Church.»
If you're a Catholic and wanted to «listen to the voice of the whole Church,» the organizers should explain to you, «Honey, we shrunk the Church.»
Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.
«â $» - Some parts of the Church havenâ $ ™ t done a good job, but to paint the whole Church with the swipe is bogus.»
I am convinced that the whole Church - which has much need to receive mercy, because we are sinners — will find in this jubilee the joy to rediscover and render fruitful the mercy of God, with which we are all called to give consolation to every man and woman of our time.
But a premature Vatican agreement with the Beijing regime would almost certainly harden the lines of division for the foreseeable future, and in ways that would further jeopardize the missionary thrust enjoined on the whole Church by Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium.
One rumor can destroy one man life but we are talking about the whole church.
--- Some parts of the Church haven't done a good job, but to paint the whole Church with the swipe is bogus.
Let's use the Catholic church to disband the whole church body.
# 7 The ability to celebrate disciples and the whole church and allow them deeply into ministry instead of a «preacher driven» ministry.
This time, he carried in his heart «the whole Church, or rather, the whole of humanity» — just as he continues to do today in his newfound ministry.
Then, after church one Sunday, when the whole church went to the fellowship hall for lunch, she started yelling at my mom!
It should be clear by now that this is a task that must involve the whole church.
John Paul is apocalyptic, obsessed with martyrdom and with the Virgin Mary, and, worst of all, self - important: «The pope himself seems to think the whole church depends on him — on his being saved by the Virgin of Fatima, on his living into the new millennium, on his visiting every Marian shrine, on his Stakhanovite canonizing, on his re-definitions of every truth, on his creating a like - minded episcopate....
The whole church needs help in avoiding the depersonalization of God as we seek to overcome the limitations imposed on our Christian experience by male - oriented language.
The Pope does not run the whole Church on a daily basis; that is done by the bishop in each diocese.
But any change would have to be accepted by a large body of believers to whom we look to for theological guidance, and it would have to be accepted for a considerable length of time by the whole church.
we cant take a risk you will not do something like that again» my whole church life was being called to the principle's office.
«It was only a few minutes before serving communion and it shook our whole church,» he told CT. «We were scared, but insisted to continue.»
Prayer One intercedes for the whole Church in a particular way.
Wherever we find the whole church has expressed its shared understanding, we treat what is said as authoritative.
The call to missionary discipleship was issued, Francis believed, to the whole Church, not just to clergy.
Far too few Christians understand the real nature of the Bible, yet some knowledge of how it came to be the book we now have in our hands is a necessity for the whole Church in this modern age.
«We see that it is the whole church that corporately grows in the understanding of the truth.
It is not merely «my» creed but the whole Church's.
It was a crime that Leo III crowned Charles the Great emperor, because the legitimate emperor was at Constantinople (empress Irene) and the legitimate Church was the whole church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
I think that is part of the fundamental flaw of the whole church system — expectations.
But more important is their message for the whole Church: in an era that has been characterised by Pope Benedict as «forgetfulness of God», these Christians show a joyful and attractive relationship to God and the Church.
This may be the Roman Catholic Church in some countries, the Church of England or the Lutheran church in other parts of Western Europe, but as a whole the churches are declining in attendance.