Mainline Christian churches see baptism as a once-in-a-lifetime event that can be neither repeated nor undone.

During the forty days leading up to Christmas, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the Nativity Fast, while the majority of Christian congregations ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Mainline churches, and Baptists ) begin observing the liturgical season of Advent four Sundays before Christmas — both are seen as times of spiritual cleansing, recollection and renewal to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.

The liberalization of many Seminaries and theological institutions, particularly in regards to the rejection of the notion that the Bible is an infallible document, has led to a much more human-centered and secular movement within Mainline Christian denominations, particularly in the United States.

Mainline Christian theology ( Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant ) has traditionally held that only one baptism is valid to confer the benefits of this sacrament.

Mainline churches tend to be open to new ideas, new understandings of morality, and societal changes without abandoning what they consider to be the historical foundations of the Christian faith.

Mainline denomination members have the lowest birthrate among American Christian groups.

Several Mainline and evangelical Christian voices criticized Robertson's remarks as misleading, untimely and insensitive.

In 2000, the largest denominational groups were Catholics ( with 433, 832 members ) and Mainline Protestants ( with 95, 244 members ).

As of the 2000 RCMS, the three largest denominational groups in Franklin County are Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Orthodox.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives ' 2000 Metro Area Membership Report, the denominational groups of the Spokane MSA are 43, 397 Evangelical Protestant ; 32, 207 Mainline Protestant ; 776 Orthodox ; 57, 187 Catholic ; 17, 351 Other ; and 267, 021 Unclaimed.

Mainline Protestant ( also sometimes called " mainstream American Protestant " and " oldline Protestant ") is a group of Protestant churches in the United States contrasted with evangelical, fundamentalist, and charismatic groups.

Most groups holding revival meetings tend to be of a conservative or fundamentalist nature, although some are still held by Mainline groups, which used to conduct them with a far greater frequency.

He also wrote the groups ' final hit, " Mainline ," which was recorded after he left the group.

( left ) Ti Biblia, first published in 1909 and generally used by Mainline Protestants ; ( centre ) Ti Baro a Tulag, the New Testament first published in 1973 and generally used by Ecumenism | Ecumenical Tradition s ; and the Naimbag a Damag Biblia, the Ilocano equivalent of the Good News Bible, officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church and some ecumenism | ecumenical groups.

Many Mainline Protestant churches are open and affirming to gay and lesbian couples.

Mainline services are available from Warrington Bank Quay and Warrington Central ( 2 – 3 miles away ).

However, there are proposals by The Association of Train Operating Companies to build a new railway station on the Midland Mainline ( to the West of Rushden ) to be known as Rushden Parkway.

Platforms five and six are used primarily for express traffic along the West Coast Mainline.

ERTMS is an attempt to set a standard for Mainline ATP across Europe where balises, GSM-R Radio and on train equipment made by any manufacturer ( who are part of the working group ) work together with each other.

Mainline service providers are those that actually produce the direct service, like various hotels chains or airlines that have a website for online bookings.

Mainline denominations are historically Trinitarian and proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and Son of God ; they adhere to the historic creeds such as the Nicene Creed, the Apostles ' Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.

The 2012 cash toll rates for passenger cars are $. 90 at the exits & the Mainline East Toll Plaza 30, and $ 1. 60 at the Mainline West Toll Plaza 18 ; E-ZPass users pay $ 1. 33 at the Mainline West Toll Plaza 18 and $. 67 for the remaining toll booths.

The ' Old Village ' and ' New Village ' are separated by the East Coast Mainline ; there are only two crossing points over the railway between the old and new villages.

* February 24-The three British trainload freight companies, Load-Haul, Mainline Freight and Trans-Rail, are acquired together by North & South Railways Ltd, an affiliate of Wisconsin Central Ltd, as part of the privatisation of British Rail.

* Three steam locomotives of NZR 4-8-2 classes J, J < sup > A </ sup >, and J < sup > B </ sup > are preserved by Mainline Steam.

Both are at Mainline Steam's Parnell Depot in Auckland.

Another ex-TOC, Midland Mainline, extended some of its London-Derby services to Matlock, though these ceased with the introduction of the Class 222 Meridians which were too heavy for several bridges north of Whatstandwell which are in a poor state of repair.

Mainline train services from the station are provided by Southern, and the station is on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted Line.

Mainline stations parallel to the branch are:

Main parts of the system are Enbridge System ( Canadian Mainline ) and Lakehead System ( U. S. Mainline ).

Mainline carriers often use regional airlines to operate services in order to increase frequency, serve routes that would not sustain larger aircraft, or for other competitive reasons.

Mainline carriers often use regional airlines to operate services in order to increase frequency, serve routes that would not sustain larger aircraft, or for other competitive reasons.

Mainline churches share a common approach to social issues that often leads to collaboration in organizations such as the National Council of Churches.

Other traditions in the west often called " Mainline " have benefited from the Liturgical Movement which flowered in the mid / late 20th Century.

It is an important railway junction, often referred to as the capital of the Baikal-Amur Mainline.

However, in June 2003 Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly filed the well-publicized state lawsuit against Mainline and Luke Thompson alleging that the company would not perform the travel services paid for by customers that were to be executed beginning only 3 weeks after the suit was filed, and Reilly expressed a general concern that the company was nothing more than a fraud and Thompson was laundering large amounts of cash from the company.

A more northerly east-west route across Siberia, parallel to the Trans-Siberian line and known as the Baykal-Amur Mainline was mostly completed in 1989.

In 1980 Conrail sold the former DL & W Mainline from Binghamton to Scranton to the D & H ; Being a flatter more direct route to Scranton, this allowed the D & H to abandon their famed Penn Division between Carbondale, PA and the connection with the ex Erie / EL at Jefferson Junction.

With the demise of Mainline, the longstanding partnership between Simon and Kirby also ended, although they would collaborate on a few more comics.

Mainline trains operate from Gare de Rouen-Rive-Droite to Le Havre and Paris, and regional trains to Caen, Dieppe and other local destinations in Normandy.

Gulf also participated in a partnership with other majors, including Texaco, to build the Pembroke Catalytic Cracker refinery at Milford Haven and the associated Mainline Pipelines fuel distribution network.

Categorised as a long distance operator Midland Mainline compared favourably to other operators in its category.

Over a year after the suit and Mainline discontinued operations, on September 2, 2004, a settlement was reached and approved between Luke Thompson and the state, providing that no party admitted wrongdoing or liability, and for no fines or other penalties would be paid Thompson or Mainline ; the state had originally sought $ 605, 000 in fines.

BEA Mainline assumed responsibility for all of BEA's Heathrow operations other than those to and from Manchester, Leeds / Bradford, Liverpool, Newcastle, Aberdeen, Inverness, the Isle of Man, Berlin ( including both non-stop and one-stop services ) and certain regional European destinations such as Bordeaux, Cork, Luxembourg and Rimini, as well as its Birmingham operations other than those to and from the Channel Islands.

However, even after the merger, a British Airways European Division, which incorporated the former BEA Mainline operation, the erstwhile Super One-Eleven and Cargo divisions, as well as British Airtours, continued to exist alongside a British Airways Overseas, a British Airways Regional and four other divisions until 1 April 1977 when these were replaced by a unified operating structure organised into a number of departments, including commercial operations, flight operations, engineering, planning, catering and personnel.

The Feast of Christ the King ( in the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, properly the Solemnity of Christ the King ) is the last holy Sunday in the western liturgical calendar, celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church as well as many Anglicans, Lutherans, and other Mainline Protestants, as well as the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia.

The internship requirement is unique to the ELCA among the other Mainline denominations in the U. S.

To serve as business manager for their Mainline Publications, Inc., they brought in Crestwood Publications office manager Nevin Fidler, who knew the mechanics of distributors and other necessary vendors, offering him a piece of the company.