If we add to these contacts with friendly members the `` contacts with an organization of the church '' ( 11.2 per cent of the cases ), then a substantial two thirds of all recruitment is through friendly contact.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

If the celebration takes place outside of Mass, it can be held in the home, in a hospital or institution, or in church.

Marriage is not a sacrament of the Christian Science church, but the church's by-laws require a legal, religious ceremony for marriage: " If a Christian Scientist is to be married, the ceremony shall be performed by a clergyman who is legally authorized.

If it is recorded, a copy is stored in the church archives at Independence, Missouri.

If Matthew's prime concern was to preserve the Jewish character of the church, he failed: Christianity became a Gentile religion, and Christianity and Judaism came to view each other as opposites.

If the elder is a full-time pastor, the church is required to provide either a house or a housing allowance for the pastor.

If the church does not have a sanctuary lamp the centermost lamp on the seven-branch may remain lit as an eternal flame.

If the congregation does not have an installed pastor, the Presbytery appoints a minister member or elected member of the presbytery as moderator with the concurrence of the local church session.

If successful, this is followed by a service of Glorification in which the Saint is given a day on the church calendar to be celebrated by the entire church.

If nothing else, Roger Williams had gathered and resigned from the Providence church before the town of Newport was even founded.

On his deathbed, he committed a manuscript to his chaplain, ordering him to consult with Libert Fromondus, a theology professor at Leuven, and Henri Calenus, a canon at the metropolitan church, and to publish the manuscript if they agreed it should be published, adding " If, however, the Holy See wishes any change, I am an obedient son, and I submit to that Church in which I have lived to my dying hour.

As an example of the federal bureaucracy involved, Georgia Rep. Jack Kingston said, " If you move a polling place from the Baptist church to the Methodist church, you've got to go through the Justice Department.

If the focus on Whitby is on the eventual consequences, then we might see the effects as more than just decisions on tonsure and dating of Easter, and instead see it as an important step in the eventual Romanisation of the church in England.

Dick Conner, who owns a flower shop adjacent to the proposed mosque, complained to the media that, " If the neighbor was a Baptist church it might be different ".

If you make it to the church grounds, be sure to check out the Babbtown Bible Garden, a garden of biblical-related plants in front of the parish house.

In 1970, at a meeting about a proposal for affordable housing, held at an all black church in Mount Laurel, Mayor Bill Haines summed up the newcomers perspectives by saying " If you people can't afford to live in our town, then you'll just have to leave.

The pragmatic church president responded, " If there is water for thirty families, you have my permission.

If there is no parish church, the bishop licenses another building for worship, and may designate it as a Parish Centre of Worship, a building which is not consecrated, but dedicated, and for most legal purposes it is deemed to be a parish church.

If it is best for us and for thy church that we should be cramped and straitened, let the people ’ s hands and hearts be closed: If it is better for us ; for the church ,— and more to thy glory that we should abound in the comforts of life ; do thou dispose the hearts of those we serve to give accordingly: and may we learn to be content whether we abound, or suffer need ”.

`` If there was collusion between an outside murderer and a member of the household it would be an elementary precaution to check on the door later.

If the object point be infinitely distant, all rays received by the first member of the system are parallel, and their intersections, after traversing the system, vary according to their perpendicular height of incidence, i. e. their distance from the axis.

If x is a member of A, then it is also said that x belongs to A, or that x is in A.

* If the metric space X is compact and an open cover of X is given, then there exists a number such that every subset of X of diameter < δ is contained in some member of the cover.

If a " positive list " approach were taken, only species evaluated and approved for the positive list would be permitted in trade, thus lightening the review burden for member states and the Secretariat, and also preventing inadvertent legal trade threats to poorly known species.

* Overrunning clutch or freewheel: If some external force makes the driven member rotate faster than the driver, the clutch effectively disengages.

If the driving member rotates in the direction that would unwind the spring the spring expands minutely and slips although with some drag.

If one member ran away or married into another household or died, the rest of family continued to be responsible for the tax obligation of the family unit.

If no election is to take place within 120 days of the vacancy then the district chairman is to call together the members of the district and they are to elect a member who will serve until the next town election.

To avoid debates about the possibility of in-vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or cloning, the original Darwin Awards book applied the following " deserted island " test to potential winners: If the person were unable to reproduce when stranded on a deserted island with a fertile member of the opposite sex, he or she would be considered sterile.

If a planet orbits one member of a binary star system, then an uppercase letter for the star will be followed by a lowercase letter for the planet.

If any member of the offensive team is downed while in possession of the ball behind his own team's goal line, this is called a safety and scores two points for the defensive team.

If the board of directors has judged that a member bank is performing or behaving poorly, it will report this to the Board of Governors.

A bureau chief stated, " If any member had been excluded it would have been the same thing, it has nothing to do with Fox or the White House or the substance of the issues ".

If Philip II Augustus supported Philip of Swabia, member of the House of Hohenstaufen, then Richard Lionheart supported Otto IV, member of the House of Welf.

If a member of the executive committee quits or dies, the other four members appoint his or her replacement.

Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset ; one member of the committee told him: " If you know how to build you should also know how to destroy.

If Justus was a member of the second group of missionaries, then he arrived with a gift of books and " all things which were needed for worship and the ministry of the Church ".

Unification Church member Kristopher Esplin told Reuters what is normally done if the word is seen in media sources: " If it's printed in newspapers, we will respond, write to the editor, that sort of thing.

* If baptism is a sign that a person is a member of God's covenant community, and if the children of believers are members of that community, it follows that the children of believers should receive the sign that they are members of God's covenant community by being baptized, as an infant is entitled to a passport that indicates the child as a member of a particular country.

If a person elected prime minister is neither a member of the Lok Sabha nor Rajya Sabha, then he must become a member of the Lok Sabha or Rajya Sabha within six months.

If the members of the task group agree that the name is appropriate, it can be retained for use when there is a request from a member of the scientific community that a specific feature be named.