Sentence examples for our denominations from inspiring English sources

Our denominations can't protest such violence as long as our words give implicit support to the attitudes that inspire it.

Why, after all, would someone heed the call to community and reconciliation from a faith that is so desperately fractured and fragmented that few of our denominations are really sustainable any more?

Religious leaders can no longer stand in a pulpit and proclaim that one cannot be gay and Christian with credibility, because hundreds of thousands of gay Christians are making ourselves visible in our denominations, religious schools, and in broader society.

Clarity of purpose and intentionality in identity will shape our congregations, our denominations and the whole Church to be ultimately a healthy source of spiritual growth and community formation -- or to be an ever-widening black hole of theological distortion and self-injury.

Now, decades later, she is a professor at a college of our denomination.

Three decades ago, conservatives detecting theological defection in our denomination's seminaries and boards launched a movement to recover the denomination for biblical orthodoxy.

"We felt the need to turn our denomination back to a more conservative theology, and for whatever reason, the president did not agree with that.

"I have cautioned our denomination to be very careful not to be seen as in lock step with any political party".

"Over the last few years our denomination has been rocked by those who would interpret existing language as vague and unenforceable," Mr. Hayes said.

The convention passed a revised confession of faith, restating our beliefs, urging Christians to oppose racism and stating that the office of pastor in our denomination "is limited to men as qualified by Scripture".

Meanwhile, our denomination has become the evangelical behemoth, more than twice the size of any other Protestant body, with congregations in all 50 states and 1,000 new churches each year.