Sentence examples for a functioning church from inspiring English sources

No one knows it's not a functioning church".

To get behind a functioning church would mean shedding the posture of enraged victim, he argued.

The news of the city's changed atmosphere came quietly, five or six years ago, with the unlikely talk that Sourp Giragos was going to be rehabilitated as a functioning church — even though there was no congregation for it anymore.

The copied Christuskirche is not a functioning church, but it is decorated in "princely" style, said Mr. Scheutz, who has seen it and was taken aback by its opulence.

Though the marble and stucco chapel is the showpiece of the castle, it is also a functioning church: It was reopened for christenings and weddings by the bishop of Lower Austria in 1993.

"The Department of the Interior distributes grants to restore historic buildings, which several years ago included the Old North Church in Boston, still a functioning Christian church," he noted.

But if they could tell every gay priest, and could overnight get rid of them, there would be no functioning church the next day.

Its boosters call it the oldest continuously functioning church and first cathedral in Alta California.

Work is also forging ahead on an underground museum in one of the oldest functioning churches in Europe, which is due to open in September.

Is it just a social function, a church service, or is it a Bible reading?

However, because a colonial church served not only religious but also social and political functions, church attendance or service in a governing body (such as an Anglican vestry, which was a state office in colonies such as Maryland, Virginia, and South Carolina) fails to guarantee a Founder's orthodoxy.