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The Word, Head of the Church, Provider, Resurrection,
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that God only move in the church
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Have you considered turning to the Church as they could
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This does not mean the Church does not have to
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It is a myth that some church people thinks that God is
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they went into the church in first place
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Beside I think it is crazy to model around the church
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read about in the bible and in church history is still
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always in our lives? The answer is simple, the church got
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Paul prayed for the church to see
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This is very common in the Church these days
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Worshiping God in the Church is not
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Church is subjected to time set for that worship service
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Rev: 2:1: Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; these things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his
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God will restore back His glory to the church
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Moreover, God’s glory should not end in the church but it
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don’t want to see your power and glory in the church
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and those we heard about in Church history
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Christopher—back then Topher went by his full name—had always loved going to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Titusville every Sunday
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Christopher felt a guilty thrill about going to church on Sundays
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She and Topher used to get high after church and debate spiritual truths, at least before his anxiety got worse and couldn’t leave the house
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It was about how singing, especially in a congregation like in a church, was actually beneficial to one’s health
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It’s a large village with a very active social spirit and I know Emma and Adrian get involved in a lot of the activities which, as has been the case throughout the centuries, are in the main organised by the church generally and, more specifically, by the vicar
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The fact he talked Emma into having Barney baptised at the church says it all really – Emma is not what you would call religious minded
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Jewish leaders called the speech “a step backward” and were disappointed by the Vatican’s anti-Semitism, believing that this speech will cause some Jews to close dialogue with the Catholic Church
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A church? A bar? None of the obvious places for seeking
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Probably the local church collecting for something
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outdated, that it was characteristic to the early Church only
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However, we are the same Church! The Church is
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But in the church she attended
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As we drive back though the village, I look about myself with interest, I’ve not been to this part of the world much … nice little church they’ve got there … looks old
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"I could be a clone?" she asked, picking up on the very pregnant 'might have been' and worried that she was committing the greatest sacrilege the church knows
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"We and they may be all that survives of the Pan Solar League and the Christial Church
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All the authority given by Jesus must be manifested through the Church,
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all things to the church,
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Church have such authority on the earth which we have not realized yet,
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time I could only be in two places: at my son’s bedside and at church
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church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the
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strong faith, then act wisely – call the elders of the church who believe
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hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own
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“One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of
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” When the leaders of the church are
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strong and teach the word’s of Christ then great things will happen in the church
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members of the church
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The church must always seek to be led in the manner in which God has set forth in his Word
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and is presently working with the Lone Star Church of Christ in Falls of Rough, Kentucky
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Since there remains such an urgent need for more qualified elders in the Lord's church it behooves all of us as preachers to realize more our responsibility in teaching and training these men
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reliance upon him and have thus created a "pastor" system of church government that is foreign to New Testament teaching
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Let it be noted first of all that the preacher is not a pastor of the church unless he is qualified and has been appointed as such in the church
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prayer when it comes to directing the affairs of the church
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the affairs of the church in the absence of elders it is wise for the preacher and other
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He’s a local man; his family have lived here for generations, as I surmised from my walk round the graveyard up at the church
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served as elders or otherwise have been active in participating in the affairs of the church
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(18) A quite unique situation in the New Testament church was that there might be
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things that are not important to the main function of the Lord's church (seek and save the lost)
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A stingy spirit must not prevail in conducting the affairs of the church (2:21)
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weak be allowed to determine the direction of the church
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have been submitted (ought to be done by the most spiritually minded men in the church) Ch
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The work of the local church is an ongoing work and even if there are elders we need not content ourselves with saying that we need not be concerned over
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As more of the world has crept into the church over the years fewer have truly
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government of the church
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to please encourage our young men (even teens) to begin early to prepare for their role in the leadership of the church
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value in encouraging the young men to aspire to the leadership of the church
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encourage their male peers when they are preparing and participating in various services of the church
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able to serve as pastors in the church
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Too often they are men whose names may appear on the church bulletin and
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So very often the business meetings don't focus on the most important work of the church
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increasing needs of the church, a new building seemed a wise choice
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If an elder or some men think this is not necessary they only create questions in the mind of the church
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If the church could select men to carry out a certain work then it can do so today
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consider the tremendous need for more men in the leadership of the church and to continue
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My prayer is that the Lord's church will have an increase in the number of men who are willing to serve
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Church of Christ in Henderson, Ky
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The church of Christ looks to Jesus Christ as its head for leadership
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Sound leaders like Joshua are needed in the church today
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It takes strong leaders in the church of Christ in every congregation because there are
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When Christians respect and study the Bible, strong leaders are developed, the church
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In the New Testament, Jesus has given the pattern for the leadership of the church of
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Jesus is the supreme leader in the church and He led by example
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When the church in the Boulevard copped it, you could see the smoke and flames from the quarry quite clearly
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The eldership is entrusted with the spiritual protection of the church of Christ
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elder takes control of the eldership, he is pulling the church away from the primitive pattern of leadership given in the Scriptures
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have no concept of the spiritual character, or makeup of the church or their responsibility to watch over the soul of every member in the congregation
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preeminence, the top spot, in the church
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The “Top Spot” is reserved for Jesus! “And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18)
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The work of elders is the most important work in the church
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He wants to be “the leader” of the church
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The church must give in to him or there will be war in the congregation
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Their heart is filled with pride and the desire is to control the church
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They think they are leading the church closer to God, but are actually taking the church away from God because they have assumed a role that is
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The person with a haughty and high-minded attitude does not love the church
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letter to the church at Corinth, Paul said that love is never puffed up
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Those who truly love the church will not seek to have their own way above
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John said, “I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth the pre-
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which he doeth, prating against us with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the church” (3 John 1:9,10)
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should be no Diotrephes in the church!
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This type of sentiment has led to a famine of the serving attitude in the church
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But, there is always one who is willing to lord over the church
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There is always the need for faithful leaders in the church of Christ
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control and terrorize the church
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is common in our churches today
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churches that are full of God’s glory
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How do we justify the exploitation of poor, wastage of food, raping women, killing people, settling disputes through war, grabbing land to build temples, churches, mosques in God’s name and minting money on the name of faith and so on
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Failure to perceive the spiritual principles of the leadership involved in the eldership has led to many destructive, devastating, and disastrous results in too many churches
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Paul instructed the churches of Galatia on how to deal with those in sin
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It is becoming more apparent in bulletins that more churches are more interested in softball, basketball, camping, and
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Churches must start teaching young people about what it means to be a servant of Christ
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This should be the first consideration of all the churches of our Lord
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However, "Majority and/or Minority Rule" is not concluded in many churches of our Lord today
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Decisions have to be made in churches which have no elders
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Traditionally, in churches of Christ, decisions in churches without elders have
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The impact of this Feminist Revolution on churches of Christ can be seen in a growing
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be in their positions of service today, many churches would not be in existence, and most congregations would languish! Women have taught other women, their own children, and
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your women keep silence in the churches, for they are not permitted to speak; but they are Ch
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How? It is because when you examine the life of Paul and the words that he wrote to the Churches abroad, you find that his character is so Christ-like that we must conclude he and Christ were indeed one
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Many of our churches that practice the Spiritual gifts abuse them
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Heaven forbid that we even start to think that what we see practiced in our Charismatic churches even slightly resembles what we see in the Book of Acts
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If our churches are not united, then we need to repent and desperately seek the God who has torn down the dividing wall of hostility
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’ Joris pointed out gently ‘Here and in Italy you will find churches much like the ones you would see on Earth but the Catholic church didn’t spread much further than this; there are some churches like this in France, but very few
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A break-water, the quayside, two churches, village houses and fishing boats
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He always liked churches, that was one of the things that comforted him the most about religion was the grand spaces where it was practiced
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With the popularity of Christianity it became customary to build new churches over alternative temples of worship in an attempt to obliterate earlier influences
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But if any man seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of
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Fortunately, I bought a local paper last weekend … mainly because there was write up of the concert in it … but I’m pretty sure I saw something about services at local churches in it
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incense (it wasn’t as popular in the churches of Troyes)
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churches opened their doors and
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Georges Cathedral is one of the tal est wooden churches in South America
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of churches and museums
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churches and testing the acoustics, or something), and
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magical as we explored the churches, streets and squares
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Seven churches of the region of Asia Minor are addressed, as
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It is interesting that five of those seven churches were
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It is interesting that He called three of the five churches to
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The churches of Sardis and Laodicea had become complacent in
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Much in the way that God revealed to the seven churches of Asia
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To the five churches
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I see a breed of church planters arising that birth churches
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filled with people from other churches
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focus on the problems within their churches, cities, and families
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churches there did not become like leaven in their community
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I mentioned earlier churches could get a booth at the local
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In 2009, many of the churches came together to worship and
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I told several stories of congregations that gave to other churches who were in need
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churches shared what they had, including their pastors and
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The example of the churches
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of Scotland, of Geneva, and of several other protestant churches, may satisfy us, that in so
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Churches or denominations are about guessing what God wants from us
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Too often missionary churches have done irreparable harm to native societies before they received proper study," Elmore said
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not a specified leader of Christian churches at that
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churches, Jesus is shown mostly during his
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Constantine built churches in the Holy Land, where his
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ful of churches in Athens and this area is
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The way most churches interpret John 3:16, they mentally replace the very
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I broke into churches and stole the
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The service of the church, accordingly, and the translation of the Bible which were read in churches, were both in that corrupted Latin; that is, in the common language of the country, After the irruption of the barbarous nations who overturned the Roman empire, Latin gradually ceased to be the language of any part of Europe
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In all the presbyterian churches, where the rights of patronage are thoroughly established, it is by nobler and better arts, that the established clergy in general endeavour to gain the favour of their superiors; by their learning, by the irreproachable regularity of their life, and by the faithful and diligent discharge of their duty
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He does not even despise the prejudices of people who are disposed to be so favourable to him, and never treats them with those contemptuous and arrogant airs, which we so often meet with in the proud dignitaries of opulent and well endowed churches
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The whole expense of the church, including what is occasionally laid out for the building and reparation of churches, and of the manses of ministers, cannot well be supposed to exceed eighty or eighty-five thousand pounds a-year
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The greater part of the protestant churches of Switzerland, which, in general, are not better endowed than the church of Scotland, produce those effects in a still higher degree
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“I’ve never seen a city with so many huge churches in
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have the churches of God
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But, with untrained elders or laity teaching churches,
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can follow the traditions Paul installed in churches and
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practice, nor have the churches of God
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on avoiding religion and the bureaucracies of Churches and can’t
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I made my money through CHANGE by doing programs in churches
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Atlus Tordis was the smaller of the two churches within Nordhel
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other churches in town as well
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He nodded in agreement and his eyes roamed over the shadowy scene, taking in the dark, jagged silhouettes of houses, offices, churches and factories
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Churches, mosques and synagogues were torn down or converted into luxury apartments
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I always remember lilies at churches, probably because I usually only went to church on
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heavy with gifts; and he stood outside the churches and watched the
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Provided ample opportunities to self-destruct, that child soon acquires disagreeable habits that, reinforced by common attitudes, establishes the rocky foundations of a society populated by lingering, single-minded adolescents who, guided by their own (―exceptional‖) rules of conduct, acquire self-centered and perhaps anti-social points of view devolving into a collection of interchangeable parts reflecting the questionable character of that society‘s lowest forms that must negatively impact its social, cultural and political institutions including schools, churches, political organizations, judicial system, the news media, corporations, all! A free and open society should never impose arbitrary limits or draw uncertain conclusions as to how an individual should (otherwise) think or act however eccentric or unconventional such attitudes may appear; although that society, by example, should seek to broaden exemplary manners and customs essential to the maintenance of proper form if that society hopes to function effectively
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They require the mutual support and interaction of its churches, schools and other (community) organizations to (properly) reinforce that society‘s customary values necessary for the functioning of a well-ordered society
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Indifference to customary (religious) attitudes is a cause of grave concern; especially among practicing Christians and (Orthodox) Jews alike who perceive the gradual erosion of the underlying principles and teachings of proud (religious) traditions and its demoralizing effect on society; of Christians and Jews in name only who are routinely abandoning their churches and synagogues while shedding their religious customs and beliefs in alarming numbers to worship before the alter of the ―golden calf‖
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…the homes that nurtured them, the schools that instructed them, the churches that reinforced their Faith, the playgrounds where many (oftentimes) played, the institutions where they earned their daily bread…
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She has been to England numerous times and loves exploring old castles and churches
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Churches of men, look on all you have done! You are trapped, ensnared by all your harlotries, which you have in common with your estranged mother, the catholic church
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And what is this I hear among the churches of men and those devout in Israel, even among those who have recognized Mashiach in Israel? What voice do I hear lifted up to heaven, crying out for guidance, longing for My presence and The Word of The Lord? What sound from the people has entered into the ears of The Holy One?!
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The former is properly understood in the (traditional) manner as comprising that society‘s political and legal bodies (its parliaments and courts, for example); the latter, by its community organizations gathered together for some specific purpose or function including its churches and schools (along with their established customs and practices)
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And what of you, O churches of men?
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THE CHURCHES OF MEN ARE UNCLEAN!
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CHURCHES OF MEN, YOUR HOUSES ARE COvERED
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Behold, the churches of men have fallen! They are fallen! Even every one of them has forsaken Me! All have went backward and not forward! Each one refuses to obey, nor will they incline the ear, but follow the counsels and dictates of their own evil hearts! Lo, with open palms they greedily receive false testimony, as they give ear to every false prophet and teacher who comes to them speaking lies and pleasant things, saying, “Peace, peace”
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Therefore, I have spit you from My mouth, O churches of men!
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* From the previous page: “those within” refers to the those within the churches of men
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For some of you your faith began in the churches of men, And for others it was molded and shaped by the world,
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Even all these churches of men, become as the widow;
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Why do you sit still as the unbeliever, Sitting upon your hands as those in the churches,
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Little flock, the time has passed for the churches of men
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Which men in the churches have lain for them?
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What of all these churches of men?
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Ethnic neighborhoods have historically generated a systematic inflow/outflow of diverse cultures that settled into self-contained communities that remained self-sufficient through its schools, churches, community and political organizations and local businesses until more favorable (economic) opportunities beckoned
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A question that is sometimes raised by members of the African American Community and by other People(s) of Color is why do many Christian Churches seldom depict ―Black‖ Angels or other biblical figures, for that matter, on murals and statues
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Unions, most churches, some business, and the Black population all strongly favored independence for all subject peoples and did not want an American empire
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Seriously, this is what some churches taught, and one can see variations of this belief today every time there is a rant scapegoating those on welfare
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” Some churches began preaching prosperity theology in the twentieth century, turning Christian belief on its head
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In the North the Muslims are fighting for an independent Northern Nigeria and is killing Christians & attacking churches
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The Black community began 35,000 Black churches and 60 Black newspapers
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But longstanding bigotry taught in many Protestant churches forced many Irish underground