:"... The main purpose of the Nineteen Day Feasts is to enable individual believers to offer any suggestion to the Local Assembly which in its turn will pass it to the National Spiritual Assembly.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

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Churches of Christ hold to the priesthood of all believers.

These churches were more commonly known as the Dunker or Dunkard Churches for their practice of immersing believers three times, once in the name of the Father, once in the name of the Son, and once in the name of the Holy Spirit.

Churches were closed, believers were persecuted, 13 Chadian pastors were executed, and missionaries were expelled from the country.

Reformed Churches are amongst denominations that teach about definitive sanctification at the time of conversion, and believers are required to " do good works " which are "… all sanctified by ( God ’ s ) grace.

Many contemporary Collegiate Churches draw on the idea that collegiate means a " church with more than one minister ", often understood as reflected in the " priesthood of all believers " and local, congregational governance.

Churches of the International Baptist Convention hold as important the following beliefs — the triune Godhead, Jesus Christ as the only savior, the Bible as the inspired Word of God, personal faith in Christ, the priesthood of all believers, baptism by immersion for believers only and religious liberty.

Hofstadter also noted that " sexual freedom " is a vice frequently attributed to the conspiracist's target group, noting that " very often the fantasies of true believers reveal strong sadomasochistic outlets, vividly expressed, for example, in the delight of anti-Masons with the cruelty of Masonic punishments.

Such icons are often given particular names ( especially those of the Virgin Mary ), and even taken from city to city where believers gather to venerate them and pray before them.

Priests are leaders to whom other believers will often turn for advice on spiritual matters.

On Lazarus Saturday, believers often prepare palm fronds by knotting them into crosses in preparation for the procession on Sunday.

Other notable changes are that " Christ " has regularly been rendered as " Messiah ," and " saints " has often been replaced with terms such as " God's people " or " believers.

The statement of the Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council on Jewish identity is often disputed among Messianic believers who either don't find it necessary or discourage halakhic conversion, in accordance with their interpretation of Romans 2: 29 ( that a " Jew " is not one who is one " outwardly " but is one who is a Jew in his heart ).

In some religions ( most notably Mormonism and Islam ) many adherents testify as a profession of their faith, often to a congregation of believers.

" In addressing this subject the first issue to note is that the terms " knowledge " and " belief " are often used interchangeably by religious believers, but technically these are very distinct terms.

In Eastern Christianity, beards are often worn by members of the priesthood and by monastics, and at times have been recommended for all believers.

Cybersectarianism is a newer organizational form which involves: " highly dispersed small groups of practitioners that may remain largely anonymous within the larger social context and operate in relative secrecy, while still linked remotely to a larger network of believers who share a set of practices and texts, and often a common devotion to a particular leader.

The form involves an exhortation to repentance by the priest, a period of silent prayer during which believers may inwardly confess their sins, a form of general confession said together by all present and the pronouncement of general absolution by the priest, often accompanied by the sign of the cross.

The church believes that there are three works of grace ( salvation, sanctification, spirit baptism ) that God bestows on believers often testified by many COGIC saints in this affirmation, " I am saved, sanctified, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.

He noted that religious codes and religious individuals often manifest religiosity, but added that devout, demanding religiosity is also obvious among many orthodox psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, devout political believers and aggressive atheists.

People who deviate from orthodoxy by professing a doctrine considered to be false are most often called heretics or radicals, while those who deviate from orthodoxy by removing themselves from the perceived body of believers are called schismatics.

Oneness believers are often accused of being Monistic or Modalistic.

Schaepe ( whose name is often misspelled Scheppe in a number of sources ) claimed during this camp-meeting that the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost was the name Lord Jesus Christ which name was later part of the baptismal command posited by Peter in — i. e., baptism " in the name of Jesus Christ " — was the fulfillment and counterpart of the Great Commission in constituting baptism " in the name ( singular ) of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit ( which " name " Oneness believers hold to be that of Jesus ).

The narthex would often include a baptismal font so that infants or adults could be baptized there before entering the nave, and to remind other believers of their baptisms as they gathered to worship.

Beliefs held by the churches of this body include the doctrines of grace, often referred to as the Five Points of Calvinism, the gathered believers church, believers ' baptism by immersion requisite to church membership and to participation at the Lord's table, and the autonomy of each local church.

Roger Williams, a Baptist theologian and founder of Rhode Island, used this parable to support government toleration of all of the " weeds " ( heretics ) in the world, because civil persecution often inadvertently hurts the " wheat " ( believers ) too.

Once a language becomes associated with religious worship, its believers often ascribe virtues to the language of worship that they would not give to their native tongues.

" In addressing this subject the first issue to note is that the terms " knowledge " and " belief " are often used interchangeably by religious believers, but technically these are very distinct terms.

This article deals with modern sightings ( the last 200 years ) of such a creature, reported as real, as opposed to mythological accounts, though believers in the phenomenon often use the Native American legends in attempts to support their claims.

The presenters distinguish between believers ( often explaining that Penn and Teller themselves would like to believe these things are true, and showing compassion to the people who do think the things are true ) and those they see as charlatans out for money or to advance a political agenda, at whom their anger is directed.

However, this reveals a mistaken understanding of the priesthood of all believers which in the Assemblies has to do with the ability to directly offer worship, whether silently or audibly, to God and His Christ, at the Lord's Supper without any human mediator being necessary – which is in accordance with 1Tim 2: 5 where it is stated that Christ Jesus Himself is the sole Mediator between God and men (" men ", being used here generically of mankind, and not referring simply and solely to " males ").

about 30 per cent call themselves Christians in order to keep up appearances and be considered respectable, and only the last 10 per cent are genuine Christians and believers in democracy.

" The divine call for massacre at Jericho and elsewhere can be explained in terms of cultural norms ( Israel wasn't the only Iron Age state to practice herem ) and theology ( a measure to ensure Israel's purity as well as the fulfillment of God's promise ), but Patrick D. Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy remarks, " there is no real way to make such reports palatable to the hearts and minds of contemporary readers and believers.

Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: very few former believers call themselves apostates because of the pejorative implications of the term.

The characteristics of those upon whom God's wrath will fall is as follows: Those who reject God ; deny his signs ; doubt the resurrection and the reality of the day of judgment ; call Muhammad a sorcerer, a madman or a poet ; do mischief, are impudent, do not look after the poor ( notably the orphans ); live in luxury or heap up fortunes ; persecute the believers or prevent them from praying.

Other Messianic believers call rabbinic commentaries such as the Mishnah and the Talmud " dangerous ", stating that followers of rabbinic and halakhic explanations and commentaries are not believers in Jesus as the Messiah.

1: 10, " Therefore, brethren, be the more zealous to confirm your call and election, for if you do this you will never fall ," Arminians still seek to nourish and encourage believers so that they might remain in a saved state.

By August 2005, al-Sadr had adopted a more conciliatory tone, along with a much lower profile, saying " I call upon all the believers to save the blood of the Muslims and to return to their homes " after an outbreak of violence between some of his followers and those of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

In support of his allegation, Bernard quotes Tertullian as writing against Praxeas: " The simple, indeed ( I will not call them unwise or unlearned ), who always constitute the majority of believers, are startled at the dispensation ( of the Three in One ), on the very ground that their very Rule of Faith withdraws them from the world's plurality of gods to the one only true God ; not understanding that, although He is the one only God, He must yet be believed in with His own economy.

Pope Callixtus III ordered the bells of every European church to be rung every day at noon, as a call for believers to pray for the defenders of the city.

The first muezzin was Bilal ibn Ribah, who walked the streets to call the believers to come to prayer.

In response to Patriarch Justinian's call to Greek-Catholic believers, on October 1, 1948, 37 Greek-Catholic priests and archpriests assembled in a gymnasium in Cluj to sign a declaration that they would convert to the Romanian Orthodox Church, as they no longer wished to receive orders from " imperialist Rome ".

Pope Callixtus III ordered the bells of every European church to be rung every day at noon, as a call for believers to pray for the defenders of the city.

They believe that the Back to Jerusalem Movement is a call from God for the Chinese church to preach the gospel and establish fellowships of believers in all countries, cities, towns, and ethnic groups between China and Jerusalem.

Paul alternates in instructing Timothy personally and the church corporately, yet in both cases his major goal is to call believers to behave with a recognition that they are living within the household of God.

After the Muslim forces had captured Mecca, Muhammad's muezzin ascended to the top of the Kaaba to call the believers to prayer ,-the first time the call to prayer was heard within Islam's holiest city, however this was never proven and many dispute the fact that it would be against the faith to actually have climbed the Kaaba, no matter how big the conquest.

One interpretation is that this is a call for all believers to honour God's name.

He concluded his address with a call to arms for contemporary believers:

Item totam fidem sua in Deo manifestavit, cum, sperans contra spem, unigenitum Isaac et iam seni a Domino datum ex uxore sterili in sacrificium offerre non renuit " ( The commemoration of Holy Abraham the patriarch and father of all believers, who at the Lord's call left Ur of the Chaldees, his homeland, and became a wanderer in the land that God promised to him and his descendants.