Sentences with phrase «without being a member of a church»

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For example, the China Christian Council, successor to the official Three - Self Movement, was welcomed as a member of the WCC without any reference to continued restrictions on Chinese Catholics and other non-recognized churches.

When a church adds to, isolates, distorts, and ignores the entirety of Scriputre, members are left without a desire to study God's Word for truth.

Now leaving the Church out of account for the moment, such a future society will be faced with the question how it can ask all its members to subscribe to such an ethos without replacing (or at least endangering) the freedom of the individual by an enforced ideology and indoctrination.

What if Paul's point is that church members are taking the Eucharist unworthily if they fail to discern the absence of those who ought to be present but can not — for example, the poor, the sick, those without transportation, and the disabled who can not make it to church?

This, of course, does not mean that there; is, avoidably as well as unavoidably, much that is «undemocratic» in the Church, if for no other reason than that the baptized children must slowly be led by the Church to a free and responsible decision of personal faith without which no adult can be a member of the Church in the fullest sense.

But compared to the population at large, members of mainline churches were significantly less likely to be single parents age 40 and under, young single adults or married couples without children.

The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

Without a readiness to be renewed by the experiences and insights of other traditions, a church and its members are not inclined to receive the results of a dialogue.

The churches at this point have a great responsibility not to advocate over-all idealistic solutions but to emphasize the distinctively Christian message that is relevant to these issues, to help their members to see the world without the characteristic American ideological blinders, to challenge many of the prevailing assumptions about the cold war and nuclear armaments, and to encourage the debate on public questions about which most people prefer to be silent.

Come on Laura, nobody really cared, and most people think as I d that his reply was just skirting the question because he didn't want to give a direct answer to the question in fear of criticism from the Mormon Church of which he is a member, because without much doubt he probably would be participating in the celebration and drinking a beer also.

One modal person was the cook, a member seldom seen outside the kitchen, present for every gathering, welcoming all sorts and conditions of hungry parishioners without regard to their beliefs or their capacity to contribute to the accomplishment of the church's program.

To expect the Church to pass through such a significant cultural shift without any of its members experiencing doubt is simply unrealistic.

Such fellowships were to be voluntarily formed by church members who had responded to an appeal from the ministers, but no one was to be permitted to join without making a clear confession of his faith.

The members of our church showered us with meals a few times a week until my kids were a couple weeks old, but when we weren't getting a meal from friends or family, it was nice to pull a home cooked meal out of the freezer and pop it in the crock pot without having to chop a single vegetable.

You seem to have fallen into the same trap as the UK Media which labelled him a «Fundamentalist Christian» because he'd done some research into the more extreme end of Christianity, without first checking whether he was a member of any Christian Group (He isn't), whether he attended any Christian Church (He didn't) or the rambling and somewhat ambiguous attacks he'd left on a number of Christian websites.

The Church says «We believe this brutalist, unwelcoming, bunkerlike building is not a proper representation of our practice or our theology and, that without a compelling government interest, our members, not the Historic Preservation Review Board, are in the best position to determine that representation.»

No provision of this chapter shall be construed to limit the performance of activities of a rabbi, priest, minister, or member of the clergy of any religious denomination or sect, or use of the terms «Christian counselor» or «Christian clinical counselor» when the activities are within the scope of the performance of his or her regular or specialized ministerial duties and no compensation is received by him or her, or when such activities are performed, with or without compensation, by a person for or under the auspices or sponsorship, individually or in conjunction with others, of an established and legally cognizable church, denomination, or sect, and when the person rendering service remains accountable to the established authority thereof.