With over 55, 000 missionaries worldwide, the church currently has a membership of over 14. 4 million and is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States.

The General Church has challenged the entire denomination to work for a 2020 Vision for the first two decades of the 21st Century.

A study of beliefs about miraculous healing among the more religiously committed has indicated that there are significant differences in belief about miraculous healing even among people within the same denomination ( Anglican ).

Note that one denomination dominates the non-Mormon section of the movement: Community of Christ, which has about 250, 000 members.

This similar denomination is not a coincidence ; the Type IIA string theory has the Type IIA supergravity theory as its low-energy limit and the Type IIB string theory gives rise to Type IIB supergravity.

In the version of Smith's 1838 history published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, as well as the portion canonized by that denomination as the Pearl of Great Price, the name " Nephi " has been changed by editors to read " Moroni ".

Conversely, Baptists are underrepresented, a reflection of their quite recent expansion in numbers ; there has been only one Roman Catholic president, although they are currently the largest single denomination, and there have been no Lutheran, Pentecostal, or Latter Day Saint presidents.

However, a new split-away denomination has been established as of January, 2012.

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .) has, in the past, been a leading United States denomination in mission work, and many hospitals, clinics, colleges and universities worldwide trace their origins to the pioneering work of Presbyterian missionaries who founded them more than a century ago.

Apostate is a term used by members of a religion or denomination to refer to someone who has left that religion or denomination.

In Christianity, " saint " has a wide variety of meanings, depending on its usage and the denomination.

The church has two professional organizations for Adventist theologians who are affiliated with the denomination.

The chalice itself has long been a symbol of liberal religion, and indeed liberal Christianity ( the Disciples of Christ also use a chalice as their denomination symbol ).

Christianity has had a profound influence on ni-Vanuatu society, and an estimated 90 % of the population is affiliated with a Christian denomination.

The denomination 26 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 397 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 622 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 405 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 432 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 620 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 621 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 623 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 31 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The denomination 27 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

The player on the declaring side who, during the auction, first stated the denomination of the final bid becomes " declarer ," the declarer's partner becomes the " dummy ," and the opposing side become the " defenders.

Protestant churches typically require a Masters of Divinity, accreditation by the denomination and ordination by the local church in order for a minister to become a " Reverend ".

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

In countries experiencing hyperinflation, the central bank often prints money in larger and larger denominations as the smaller denomination notes become worthless.

Some Indian regions, such as Rajasthan, Gujarat and Karnataka, have been strongly influenced by Jains and often the majority of the local Hindus of every denomination have also become vegetarian.

The movement gained popularity in England in the wake of the Enlightenment and began to become a formal denomination in 1774 when Theophilus Lindsey organised meetings with Joseph Priestley, founding the first avowedly Unitarian congregation in the country, at Essex Street Church in London.

Individuals may also become a Professing Member through transfer from another Christian denomination.

With inflation, the penny continued to become a less important denomination.

The modern Unitarian denomination ’ s origins lay within this group of respectable Protestants who were reluctant to ever become Dissenters, that is the English Presbyterians.

Richard Allen went on to become the future founder and first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American denomination.

1707 ), the influx of members to the churches from the Great Awakenings, and the union of the disparate Regular and Separate Baptists, by the early 19th century Baptists would become an important American denomination.

After 50 years of BCP ministry the era has come for BCP to become a missionary sending denomination instead of being a missionary receiving denomination.

* Disparity of cult ( one party not being baptised a Catholic, or at least into one of the Christian denominations ; though there are many ceremonies where one party is not a Christian, or does not belong to any denomination ; Catholic-Jewish weddings, to give one example, have become much more common, as have those with Mormons, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus ; if the other party is not a Catholic, it requires the permission of the pastor, and the witnessing priest, deacon, or certified layperson ; if the other party is a non-Christian or a member of no denomination, the local ordinary must also give permission ; all weddings are inscribed into the parish registry, and cases requiring the ordinary's permission must be recorded at the diocesan headquarters )

# Inclusive not exclusive: Believers are united in Christ by faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior ; unity on every fine point of doctrine is not required in order to become a member of the denomination

More recently, it has become common to issue a group of stamps with related designs and the same denomination on the same day.

Andrew Rice, writing in The New York Times, calls the RCCG " one of most vigorously expansionary religious movements, a homegrown Pentecostal denomination that is crusading to become a global faith ".

During the 1990s, stamps for Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Eid, and Chinese New Year have become a regular part of the holiday program, although the designs tend be used for several years, distinguishable only by a different denomination or year date.

He has become a leader of evangelical renewal in the PCUSA and has become known in that denomination for his support of conservative Christian views concerning the person and work of Jesus Christ ( rejecting pluralism ), reclaiming a center in Christ, on sexuality and withholding ordination from self-avowed, practicing, unrepentant gays and lesbians.

RUF is not constructed to be a substitute for formal church, thus it is open for anyone to join and become a member, and is not exclusive to those within a certain denomination or indeed within the Christian religion.

The Jehovah's Witnesses missionaries were so successful that they have become the second largest Christian denomination in Japan, with over 210, 000 members ( the largest is Catholicism with about 500, 000 members ).

* July – Two independent black churches open in Philadelphia: the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, with Absalom Jones, and the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, with Richard Allen, the first church of what would become a new black denomination in 1816.