Sentence examples for specific churches from inspiring English sources

One might speculate that this reticence was due to his upbringing in the Pietist tradition, with its emphasis on quiet, personal devotion rather than public worship; or, it may be that he did not want to participate in the specific churches and chapels of his community, finding them too distant from the ideal religious institutions envisioned in Religion's Third and Fourth Parts.

Although the show may not be sitting in any specific churches front pew it's certainly borrowing some scenarios that wont sound too foreign to viewers.

The letters attributed to Paul were meant to offer Christians practical instructions about negotiating day-to-day affairs, and they speak to specific churches at particular points in time. .

And, lest I be misunderstood as blaming certain churches and absolving others, I am not referring to any specific churches here; I am certainly not saying that the absent churches took one stand, while the churches that attended took another.

Given that Revelation is now being hyped as the literal -- even desired -- roadmap to Armageddon, it's worth pausing to note that it's nothing more than a bizarre pastoral letter that was addressed to seven specific churches in Asia at the end of the first century by someone (maybe John or maybe not) who appears to have been far from well when he wrote it.

Though blacks are not, as a group, more religious than whites, they are more "churched" -- more strongly affiliated with a denomination and a specific church.

I ask whether it was a specific church they belonged to, but he doesn't seem to hear.

Through the household interviews we identified a specific church as a key community-gathering place in El Sauce.

He does not formally attend one specific church, though he often appears at different churches in Washington D.C. on holidays like Christmas and Easter.

Polls on some specific church-state issues — government financing for faith-based organizations and voluntary prayer in public schools — consistently show majorities in favor of those positions.

Albert, who did not identify a specific church, also believed that he was in Vidor, a town a few hours' drive away, when officers approached him.