Sentence examples for functions in the church from inspiring English sources
The Bible insists on the absolute equality of men and women, but gives them different functions in the church, so that men can show leadership through self-sacrifice and thus reveal the character of God, and women can demonstrate Christian discipleship to the wider church, thus helping us all follow Christ better.
To accommodate Saddleback's continual growth, Warren used 79 different facilities for functions in the church's first 15 years--schools, bank buildings, recreation centers, theaters, restaurants, large homes, even a 2,300-seat 2,300-seat
To accommodate Saddleback's continual growth, Warren used 79 different facilities for functions in the church's first 15 years–schools, bank buildings, recreation centers, theaters, restaurants, large homes, even a 2,300-seat 2,300-seat
She took me to at least one church service (not one of the ones inside the holy temple where only LDS members were allowed admission) and several youth functions in the church, and she invited me to family gatherings that convened fellow church members.
Collegiality, in various Christian denominations, especially Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Eastern Orthodoxy, the view that bishops, in addition to their role as individuals presiding over local churches (in most cases, dioceses), are members of a body that has the same teaching and ruling functions in the universal church that the Apostles had in the early church.
A further type of charismatic person is the healer, who functioned in the early church as an exorcist but who also emerged as a charismatic type in healing personalities of more recent church history (e.g., Vincent de Paul in the 17th century).
The Reporter said that "three cardinals — Giovanni Battista Re, Crescenzio Sepe and Franc Rode — were chosen by lot to help assist in the general functioning of the church in the time before the election of the new pope".
In fact my further view is that it is the legitimate function of the church in the collective West of the 21st century to make the state permanently ethically uncomfortable with itself because of the compromises the State will inevitably make with the passage of each law, or the determination of each executive government policy.
Elmbrook School District v Doe asks whether the first amendment bars a state school from holding public functions in a church building for purely secular reasons.
"The function of the church," he said in a 1964 interview with The New York Times, "is to see a need and respond to it.
