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 groups are often more accepting of other beliefs and faiths.

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.

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.

( 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.

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

As of 2000, Rowan County was the home of 25 Evangelical churches, four Mainline Protestant churches, one Catholic Church and one Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( LDS ) congregation.

129 of every 1000 residents was claimed by an Evangelical congregation ( 116th in rank ), 50 by a Mainline congregation ( 91st in rank ), 20 by the Catholic Church, and 37 by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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.

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* April 28-Further British train operating companies begin operation of their passenger service franchises as part of the privatisation of British Rail: Gatwick Express and Midland Mainline ( both National Express Group ) and Great North Eastern Railway ( Sea Containers Ltd ).

Its member denominations, churches, conventions, and archdioceses include Mainline Protestant, Orthodox, African American, Evangelical, and historic peace churches.

Liturgical or Mainline Protestant communities ( e. g. Presbyterian, Congregationalist / United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, etc.

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

He was active in the Northern Baptist church, a Mainline Protestant denomination.

Mainline Protestant denominations have since removed prohibitions against artificial contraception.

Mainline American Protestant denominations, including the United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church USA, The Episcopal Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, do not teach the doctrine of inerrancy as set forth in the Chicago Statement.

* Schaff, D. S. " Devil " in New Schaff – Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge ( 1911 ), Mainline Protestant ; vol 3 pp 414 – 417 online

* Mainline Protestant with 3, 840 is most common around 28 %; mainly Lutheran.

The Mainline Protestant denominations refused to join the attacks on evolution and welcomed modern ideas.

" Mainline Protestant churches were slow to take root, in fact no churches at all were built in Demopolis until 1840.

Amillennialism is common among some Mainline Protestant denominations such as the Lutheran, Reformed and Anglican churches.

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.

The term " Mainline Protestant " was coined during debates between modernists and fundamentalists in the 1920s.

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The flag was first accepted by the Mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, and by the 1980s many institutions had described policies for displaying it inside churches.

This movement initially involved only the Anglican and Mainline Protestant churches.

Acton has seven railway stations, namely North, East, South, West, Central, Mainline and Town.

St Neots railway station has half-hourly trains south to London and north to Peterborough on the East Coast Mainline.

, away, has fast Midland Mainline express passenger services to and from London.

The parish falls within the district of Breckland and has an area of 21. 90 km² with a Mainline train service to both Norwich and Cambridge.

In addition, Ian Welch of the Mainline Steam Trust in New Zealand has purchased a number of ex-BR MkII cars formerly used on this service.

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.

Most Mainline Protestants recognize only two sacraments, the Eucharist and baptism ( though some Lutherans add confession ), deeming Anointing only a humanly-instituted rite.

Midland Mainline was the only operator to offer complimentary free tea and coffee to all passengers, including those in standard class.

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.

The settlement formally ordered Mainline to refund all customers, but refunds had actually been provided in June 2003, only the company was not under court order to issue refunds until their settlement was approved ( just over a year later ).

Along with the features typical of contemporary BitTorrent clients, it supports UPnP gateway configuration, bandwidth scheduling, Webseeding, selecting only certain files for download inside a torrent package, NAT traversal ( removed in v. 1. 03 ), Peer Exchange ( in older versions, using a proprietary protocol and starting with v. 1. 19 also by using the Extension Protocol, implementing a PEX mechanism compatible with µTorrent / Mainline PEX ), Initial-Seeding ( Super-Seeding ) and support for Magnet Links.

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.