Some minorities within congregations that joined the PKN decided to leave the church and associated themselves individually with one of the other Reformed churches.

Some congregations and members in the Dutch Reformed Church did not agree with the merger and have separated.

Some Reformed Christians object to this view saying that if the father of the child is regenerate, then the soul of the child would also be regenerate which obscures the doctrine of original sin.

Some religions and branches of religions, including Quakers, Unitarians, Ethical Culture, Reform and Reconstructionist Jews, the Metropolitan Community Church, and the Reformed Catholic Church perform and recognize same-sex marriages, even if the government of their geographic area may not.

Some churches, especially the smaller denominations, do not have the regional synod tier ( for example, the Reformed Church in the United States ( RCUS )).

Some Reformed theologians have mistakenly used the term " Arminianism " to include some who hold the Semipelagian doctrine of limited depravity, which allows for an " island of righteousness " in human hearts that is uncorrupted by sin and able to accept God's offer of salvation without a special dispensation of grace.

Some Reformed churches — notably the Presbyterian Church ( USA ) and the United Church of Christ — have published daily office books adapted from the ancient structure of morning and evening prayer in the Western church, usually revised for the purpose of inclusive language.

" Cohen also said, " Some Indian mixture is possible, however, Indian and colored interracial matings probably were not recorded in the Dutch Reformed Churches.

Some low church Anglicans of the Reformed party consider themselves the only faithful adherents of historic Anglicanism and emphasize the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England as an official doctrinal statement of the Anglican tradition.

Some Reformed churches, especially the Calvinists, rejected the use of instrumental music and organs in church, preferring to sing all of the music a cappella.

* 1911: Consuming Love, or St. Valentine's Day in Greenaway Land A Geranium ; The Child Crusoes ; His Sister's Children ; A Reformed Santa Claus ; Some Good in All

Some Reformed Protestant liturgies include additional translation of the sermons, such as drama skits and the Children's message.

Some in the modern Reformed churches are critical of this understanding, while other Calvinists affirm Theonomy.

Some who were more conservative in their theology united to form the Eureka Classis of the RCUS to continue classical Reformed worship and polity.

Some existentialistic or neo-orthodox Protestant intellectuals like the Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth turned away from philosophy ( called fideism ) and argued that faith should be based strictly upon divine revelation.

Some of the better known leaders who have described themselves as both, Reformed and Fundamentalist, have been Carl McIntire, with the Bible Presbyterian Church and Ian Paisley of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster.

Some schools related to the Reformed Churches are willing to give their pupils a day off to visit this event.

Some of the Reformed hold that Calvin actually held this view, and not the " spiritual feeding " idea more commonly attributed to him ; or that the two views are really the same.

Some band into loose voluntary associations with other congregations that share similar beliefs ( e. g., the Willow Creek Association ).

Some Progressive Christian congregations offer communion to any individual who wishes to commemorate the life and teachings of Christ, regardless of religious affiliation.

Some congregations have a rabbi but also allow members of the congregation to act as shatz or baal kriyah ( see below ).

3 ) Some months prior to that General Assembly, a number of disaffected congregations formed a new conservative denomination, the Evangelical Presbyterian Church.

Some congregations emphasize this diversity and use it to enrich individuals ' search for their own truths.

Some congregations celebrate communion on the first Sunday of the month and a few celebrate it only quarterly.

Some Orthodox Jewish women now serve in Orthodox Jewish congregations in roles that previously were reserved for males, specifically rabbis.

Some progressive Orthodox congregations do allow women, including Bat Mitzvah girls, to read Torah or lead prayers at women-only prayer groups.

Some of the ministers heading congregations in the area attended the Seneca Falls Convention, but none spoke out during the sessions, not even when comments from the floor were invited.

Some Presbyterian denominations enroll ministers as members of their respective congregations, while others enroll the minister as a member of the regional presbytery.

Some congregations believe that adherence to the Oral Law, as encompassed by the Talmud, is against Messianic beliefs, since the Talmud was not written until after the whole of the affirmed canon ( begun 70 CE, completed approx 500 CE ).

Some congregations also have bread-and-cup communion periodically during regular worship services.

Some congregations, however, do not implement Synod's policy, celebrating open communion and welcoming all to their altars.

( Some Conservative congregations remove the concluding silent prayer for the Temple entirely.

Some congregations in the ALC opted not to join the merger and instead formed the American Association of Lutheran Churches.

Some congregations also commune baptized infants similarly to Eastern Orthodox practice.

Some congregations of black churches let out early while others walked immediately from Sunday service to Comiskey Park.

Some congregations opposed liberalizing influences that appeared to mitigate traditional views of sin and corollary doctrines such as the substitutionary atonement of Jesus.

Some more theologically conservative MECS congregations dissenting from the merger formed the Southern Methodist Church in 1940.

In the 2009 – 2013 Manual pastors are encouraged to increase the frequency of the Lord's Supper Some congregations offer communion at least once a month or even every week.

) Some congregations serve hard liquor along with other refreshments during the Simchat Torah dancing.

Some churches say they are non-denominational because they have no central headquarters ( though they may have affiliations with other congregations ).

* Some congregations conduct Bible studies and classes as part of the routine church schedule.