Sentence examples for church confessions from inspiring English sources

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Confession of faith, formal statement of doctrinal belief ordinarily intended for public avowal by an individual, a group, a congregation, a synod, or a church; confessions are similar to creeds, although usually more extensive.

The NIAF claimed, "Without the family dinners, the church confessions, the Italian phrases, the Little Italy neighborhoods, and the espresso coffee breaks, The Sopranos would be just another TV show glorifying violence".

He hadn't felt such relief since a visit to a church confession box, twenty years earlier.

A moment in a church, confession at her darkest hour, crystallizes the cost.

Actor James Woods who appeared with Stone at the NYFF celebration of their film, revealed that Stone had directed him to ad lib his church confession to the priest in it.

In a growing number of American churches, confessions of poverty or distress amount to heresy.

With the decline of state churches, confessions are no longer legally established norms and can once again regain their original function of witnessing to basic convictions.

In some Pentecostal and Fundamentalist churches, confession of sins is an important part of the worship service.

Furthermore, religious parameters that may offer additional insights to our future work such as praying time, church attendance, confession as well as dietary habits and confession were not examined.

In the Orthodox church the Confession started a controversy that culminated in 1672 in a convocation by Dosítheos, patriarch of Jerusalem, of a church council that repudiated all Calvinist doctrines and reformulated Orthodox teachings in a manner intended to distinguish them from both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.