Sentence examples for core of the church from inspiring English sources

His financial supporters formed the core of the church, which grew to more than 100,000 members by the time of Armstrong's death.

Instead, she became a dissident theologian who spoke for those she considered the neglected spiritual core of the church's membership: Hispanic women like herself.

"It's not even a particularly beautiful sound, to my ears," he said, "but rather one that is jangly, spiky and angular -- altogether the wrong aesthetic for the Anglican choral tradition" at the core of the church's mission.

Ada María Isasi-Díaz would have become a Roman Catholic priest, she told friends, if not for the church's ban on ordaining women.Instead, she became a dissident theologian who spoke for those she considered the neglected spiritual core of the church's membership: Hispanic women like herself.Dr.

While many congregations are preserving worship practices, rituals and fellowship experiences of the old black church, black millennials desire a return to the core of the black church.

Tithing is a core practice of the church, and stipulates that the first 10th of your income should go to the church.

Justice Breyer said voucher programs differed "in both kind and degree from aid programs upheld in the past" because they provided public money "to a core function of the church: the teaching of religious truths to young children".

My friend Bill Hybels, Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Community Church, says it best: "Life change happens best in groups". He made it one of the core values of the church, which is now one of the leading churches in the country.

The well-being of others, especially the well-being of the outcast and marginalized, is the core value of the church.

But Santorum said Catholics are "better off sticking to the things that are really the core teachings of the church, as opposed to getting involved in every other kind of issue that happens to be popular at the time".

The Catholic university historically has held the opinion that having a group or adding the clause would conflict with the core beliefs of the church and "may not allow us to distinguish between sexual orientation and behavior, which is a distinction that we must maintain as a Catholic university".