Sentence examples for total church from inspiring English sources

SPORTSSATURDAY, PAGE D1 Supply-Side Churchgoing Does competition among churches stimulate total church attendance?

The General Assembly is an annual meeting of commissioners, ministers, and elders, elected by all the presbyteries (not by the synods) according to their total church membership.

The articles asserted the king's independence from Rome in secular matters and proclaimed that, in matters of faith, the pope's judgment is not to be regarded as infallible without the assent of the total church.

Annual baptisms in the SBC rose slightly (by 2.2%) in 2009, but total church membership dropped fractionally, to 16.2m, something once unthinkable in the denomination that produced Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

The doctrine imposed severe limitations on the pope, making him subject to the total church and to a general council of bishops, and strengthened both the state and the national bodies of bishops.

This declaration stated: (1) the pope has supreme spiritual but no secular power; (2) the pope is subject to ecumenical councils; (3) the pope must accept as inviolable immemorial customs of the French Church e.g., the right of secular rulers to appoint bishops or use revenues of vacant bishoprics; (4) papal infallibility in doctrinal matters presupposes confirmation by the total church.

The ban on FEMA grants for houses of worship is not total: churches and synagogues may apply for reimbursement for social services they provided, including homeless shelters, preschools or feeding programs.

The membership declines in mainline churches led to a 1percentt decrease in total U.S. church membership, to 145.8 million.

The annual total of church leavers, usually around 120,000, rocketed to 181,193 two years ago as revelations about decades of sexual abuse of children by priests shamed the hierarchy and prompted an apology from German-born Pope Benedict.

A total of 2762 church funerals were conducted in the 23 churches (Table 4) There is a highly significant downward linear trend in the rate of church funerals over time (X2 for linear trend 197, P<0.0001, Figure 1c).

He had donated 10percentt of the total to his church.