There was an inscription above the front door on the church's façade which used to say: " Stop your walking, traveller, and enter this sacred temple in which you will find the footprint of our Lord Jesus Christ when He met with St. Peter who escaped from the prison.

An inscription on the façade, Christo Salvatori, indicates the church's dedication to " Christ the Saviour ", for the cathedrals of all patriarchs are dedicated to Christ himself.

Excavations in 1932 revealed an inscription in the church's mosaic floor that dates to 555 CE.

The church's emblem is the Lamb of God ( right ) with the flag of victory, surrounded by the Latin inscription: Vicit agnus noster, eum sequamur, or in English: " Our Lamb has conquered, let us follow Him ".

Roman inscription in the church's yard

But by first calling the final product Novum Instrumentum omne (" All of the New Teaching ") and later Novum Testamentum omne (" All of the New Testament ") he also indicated clearly that he considered a consistently parallelized version of both the Greek and the Latin texts as the essential dual core of the church's New Testament tradition.

" Individual congregations (" wards ") are led by a Bishop or branch president who was called to his position through revelation by the church's hierarchical leadership, and he serves until released from the position.

The church's website describes the building in customary evangelical Protestant terms, regarding the nave rather than the altar (" communion table ") area as its " sanctuary.

The earliest record of the church's dedication to St. Peter ad Vincula (" St Peter in Chains ") dates from 1469.

* Semana Santa (" Easter "), held according to the church's calendar.

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

During the life of Brigham Young, elements of the Adam – God doctrine were taught in LDS church meetings, sung in church hymns, and featured as part of the church's Endowment ceremony.

Whether or not Smith had secretly taught the doctrine, the first recorded explanation of the doctrine was by Brigham Young, who first taught the Adam – God doctrine at the church's spring General Conference on April 9, 1852.

The church's actual name is The Church of God ; however, the parenthetical phrase Charleston, Tennessee is added to distinguish it from similar sounding organizations.

This church is often denominated the Church of God ( Chattanooga ) to distinguish it from other related Church of God bodies, but the church's designation for itself is The ( Original ) Church of God, Inc. Offices and a publishing house are located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A Dissertation on the Faith and Doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ, a work approved by the church's Quorum of Twelve Apostles and endorsed by its ministers in a General Church Conference held in October 1985, states " We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

The church's official statement of beliefs are comparable to those of Armstrong's original Radio Church of God and the other WCG offshoots.

While different sects believe in different revelations, a central theme of the Latter Day Saint movement is that God always has more to say to the church, because the church's situation is always changing.

At times, however, the church's ownership of the building has influenced the approval of specific performers for the venue, such as in 2005 and 2009, when The Forum refused to allow performances by the heavy metal band Lamb of God because the band's former name had been " Burn the Priest ".

Record's owners, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, were mired in controversy during the church's growth, including an incident in 1995, when Globo aired a tape which showed the church's founder, Edir Macedo, teaching other church officials how to manipulate church followers into giving more money to the church.

In the Stanford University press release about the gift of watercolor cartoons for the church's mosaics, Paoletti's design for the facade is described as " Christ Welcoming the Righteous into the Kingdom of God ", based on Matthew 25: 34.

Readers are permitted to ( and should in accordance with his particular church's practices ) wear a cassock as a sign of his suppression of his own tastes, will, and desires, and his canonical obedience to God, his bishop, and the liturgical and canonical norms of the Church, although many do so only when attending services ( again in accordance with particular church practices ).

The temple is regarded as a symbol of the church's mission and has long been closely associated with the denomination's developing theology of Zion, or the peaceable Kingdom of God, first advocated as basileia tou theou by Jesus Christ.

Liberal Party of Australia foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer commented positively on the church's focus on God, the Bible and the message of Christ.

CGI produces a television program titled Armor of God which covers topics related to Christian living through the lens of the church's doctrines.

The church's purpose statement is to: Love God, Love People & Serve the World.

Another sign of the church's declining role in Spanish life was the diminishing importance of the controversial secular religious institute, Opus Dei ( Work of God ).

One of the church's mottos was " You can ’ t outgive God ".

His restless and imperious ambition for the church's growth, come what might for the non-Christians, is suggested by his preaching ’.

The first stand against capital punishment was taken by the church's Presiding High Council in 1995.

After Smith's death, a succession crisis ensued, and the majority voted to accept the Quorum of the Twelve, led by Brigham Young, as the church's leading body.

Christian Science practitioners are listed in the Christian Science Journal, with the permission of the church's Board of Directors, their only form of official recognition by the church and among the Christian Science laity.

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.

The suit was thrown out by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1997, but a lingering discontent with the church's financial matters persists to this day.

It is the church's de facto " official biography " of Eddy, though it was not published by the church.

The Roman Catholic Church does not consider the validity of an ecumenical council's teaching to be in any way dependent on where it is held or on the granting or withholding of prior authorization or legal status by any state, in line with the attitude of the 5th-century bishops who " saw the definition of the church's faith and canons as supremely their affair, with or without the leave of the Emperor " and who " needed no one to remind them that Synodical process pre-dated the Christianisation of the royal court by several centuries ".

Emily's health, like her sisters ', had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's graveyard.

Pauline authorship was held to by many of the early church's prominent theologians, such as Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Origen of Alexandria and Eusebius.

However, many modern scholars disagree with Irenaeus, holding that while little is known of the circumstances of the church's founding, it was not founded by Paul.

Archbishop Heriger of Mainz offered to anoint Henry according to the usual ceremony, but he refused to be anointed by a high church official — the only King of his time not to undergo that rite — allegedly because he wished to be king not by the church's but by the people's acclaim.

The city became the church's new headquarters and gathering place, and it grew rapidly, fueled in part by converts immigrating from Europe.

'" The use of " Mormon " in other contexts is not generally considered offensive and is commonly used by the church's members.

This is derived from the name of the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, and was first used in 1974 by the American media.

Plural marriage became the faith's most sensational characteristic during the 19th century, but vigorous opposition by the United States Congress threatened the church's existence as a legal institution.

The regime responded by closing Roman Catholic publications and newspapers, expelling non-Paraguayan priests, and harassing the church's attempts to organize the rural poor.

In many churches in the United States, the title " Preacher " is synonymous with " Pastor " or " Minister ", and the church's minister is often referred to simply as " our / the preacher " or by name such as " Preacher Smith ".

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.