Sentences with phrase «with other churches»

We are in fellowship with other churches so that we are not isolated and in danger of falling off the fringe.

Not long ago I was on a panel with other church leaders in a large city.

Finding opportunities to work with other churches — and particularly churches whose congregations are vastly different than our own — might be a good place to start.

Because it focused internally upon reform and adaptation, and externally upon dialogue and interaction with other churches, its thrust can best be described as forward and outward.

They aren't trying to win a popularity contest or compete with other churches.

I get nervous at my church because it's a one of a kind sort of place, not part of a denomination, though it does have working links with some other churches.

Recently I was meeting in a restaurant with some other church leaders.

I hope you do partner in this way with other churches!

The stark choice might appear to be to continue to be «in fellowship with other churches» or «go over the edge».

It's a great reminder that our service to these people isn't about making our church famous or competing with other churches.

Also, you can build relationships with other church members that can provide spiritual support for your family long after you exchange vows.

It is inevitable that as we seek partner with other churches in our area, we will run into the very attitudes and approaches that left many of us wounded.

The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, by a Marxist - inspired coup in 1974 introduced a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which along with other churches experienced martyrdom and persecution.

Establishing a covenanting relationship with other churches is not «cheap ecumenism.»

The political in - fighting, constant pleas for more offerings, and competition with other churches was all too much.

That last topic brings to mind another topic worthy of discussion in considering President Harrison's first term — namely, the LCMS» increasingly friendly relations with other church bodies.

In his first encyclical, issued while the Council was still finding its way, Paul VI called for a Church in dialogue with other churches, with other religions, and with secular humanists, but called attention to the virtual impossibility of dialogue with atheistic communism.

We also partner with other churches in the city trying to get more people to God.

And it will be for me quite a poignant moment going there [to Whitehall] with the other church leaders and the Queen and all the others to think of him.

On several Sunday mornings, she refuses to smile or give eye contact and often converses with other church members while glancing over at me, turning down her mouth, or looking me up and down in a disapproving manner.

Maybe I will even develop some friendships with other church planters, and we can partner with each other in the future.

Sunday morning, a weeknight for small group, regular service on a ministry team, occasional church projects and retreats... Add the expectation to be friends and find community with other church members beyond the organized settings, and I have little time left for my neighbors.

Cooperate with other churches and temples in working to attract competent psychotherapists to the community and to set up community - sponsored outpatient services, alcoholic treatment programs, psychiatric wards in general hospitals, day hospitals, night hospitals, halfway facilities, and crisis clinics.

They, along with other church staff, will be subjected to a criminal check by the police every three years in order to catch potential child abusers.

As I journeyed into it personally, and talked with other church - hoppers, I discovered some important things.

The Council, some believe, renounced the high claims previously made for the Church and put Catholic Christianity on a plane of equality with other churches and religions.

Presbyterian general assemblies are not universal councils of the church, and setting agendas and shaping deliberations in concert with other churches and their councils would help to avoid the conceit that authority in the church belongs to a voting majority of seven hundred commissioners.

To his mind, the First Amendment freed Catholics from the stigma of second - class citizenship and offered the church not only equal status with other churches but protection from enemies and freedom to govern its own affairs.

As congregants entered any one of the church's five locations throughout Music City, they were greeted by smiling Facebook employees inviting them to laptops where they could learn to use technology to connect with other church members.

The church's formal commitment to ecumenical engagement would be deepened by attending to theological and moral matters in meaningful consultation with other churches.

Reach out to bring people in wheelchairs into church if they want to come; share transportation van services with other churches ~ have some programs geared to all people, including the disabled; let no churches be built or remodeled that are not wheelchair - accessible.

Some other churches, whilst not agreeing to unite, now allow some inter-communion with other churches, which means that members of one church can receive Communion if they attend a service at a church of another denomination.

There are tendencies among Pentecostals (as in other Christian groups) to withdraw and limit their involvement to their own circles instead of being open and seeking contact with other churches.

Gives him a show - stopping conversational piece whenever he meets up with other church people.

Mormons note the many similarities and overlap between their teachings and that of other churches but point to their belief in other scriptures like the Book of Mormon as the reason they split with other churches.

It formed the Interagency Group on Breastfeeding Monitoring (IGBM) with other church groups, development organisations and academics.

• Dr John Barrett, Chair of the Church's Education Commission, is quoted as saying that «we have an amazing opportunity, both within the schools that we already run, and with the potential of providing more, either on our own or in partnership with other Churches.»

The place was packed with other churches holding egg hunts scavenger.

I have grave concerns about the possibility of any non-faith school being forced into a MAT with other church schools, which have the protection (within the MoU) of their religious ethos being upheld.

One of their hallmarks is to work side by side with other churches and organizations who are doing the same.»

We may not need be able to meet the needs of everyone we encounter, but if we can mobilize others to join us in meeting needs and even partnering with other churches, non-profit organizations, companies, and governments we can build momentum towards significant progress.