Because much physical and spiritual violence was done to Jews in the name of Jesus and his followers, and because evangelism is still an active aspect of many church's activities, many Jews are uncomfortable with discussing Jesus and treat him as a non-person.

The Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) contends that the thousands of changes made to the original revelations as published in the Book of Commandments ( including the change of the church's name ) are not doctrinal and result from Joseph Smith's fall from his original calling.

Church leaders also encourage members to use the church's full name to emphasize its focus on Jesus Christ.

Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have encouraged members to use the church's full name to emphasize the church's focus on Jesus Christ.

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

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 ".

Some changes included the ordination of women to the priesthood, open communion, and changing the church's commonly-used name from the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to the current name in April 2001.

His wife, a native of Hanover, New Hampshire, was greatly admired by the church's congregants ; therefore, the church adopted the name it did.

After the Revolutionary War, Horseneck changed its name to " Caldwell Township " in honor of a local war hero and pastor, James Caldwell, who used burning pages from his church's bibles to ignite the ammo in soldiers ' cannons and helped to drive the British out of Horseneck.

After the Revolutionary War, Horseneck changed its name to " Caldwell Township " in honor of a local war hero and pastor, James Caldwell, who used burning pages from his church's bibles to ignite the ammo in soldiers ' cannons and helped to drive the British out of Horseneck.

Later, Kennedytown took the church's name as its own.

The Presbyterian Church established in 1737 was a focal point for the community, and the lack of serious injuries when the church's balcony collapsed in 1759 was deemed to be an example of Divine Intervention, leading residents to change the area's name to New Providence.

" It was usually called the " African Union Church " until a Maryland offshoot of the A. M. E. Church ( the " First Colored Methodist Protestant Church ") merged into it in 1866, when the denomination added that church's name to its own.

In the church's inscription, " Deo erexit VOLTAIRE " (" Erected to God by VOLTAIRE "), Voltaire's name is written in the largest characters.

Until 1969, the church's name was simply the State Church or sometimes just The Church.

The term " Pentecostal " in the church's original name soon proved to be increasingly problematic.

Accordingly, when in 1845 the civil power in the canton of Vaud interfered with the church's autonomy, he led a secession which took the name of L ' Église libre.

The two which did not ratify because of concerns that the role of the new church's bishops was overly narrow, elected to continue under the original name of the movement.

CAW was formed in 1962, evolving from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; the church's mythology includes science fiction to this day.

After the death of Duc de Palatine in the 1970s, Hoeller abbreviated the church's name, in Latin form, to Ecclesia Gnostica .< ref name = autogenerated3 >

He stated the principle as one of the church's articles of faith, that a calling to preach or perform rituals in the name of Christ was to be made through " prophecy and the laying on of hands by those who are in authority " ( See Fifth Article of Faith in The Wentworth Letter ).

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.

Even those who are sympathetic to the concerns of the Church are sometimes uneasy with the church's Malthusianism.

It has sometimes been referred to as a " Bickertonite church " or " Rigdonite organization " based upon the church's claims of succession through William Bickerton and Sidney Rigdon.

This explains why modern Protestant churches sometimes use " Philadelphia " as a component in the local church's name as a way of emphasizing its faithfulness.

Rita Kempley of The Washington Post said, " Part soap opera and part propaganda, this sometimes affecting drama presents a one-sided examination of the church's teachings on homosexuality and the celibacy of its clergy.

While he was staying at the rectory, located on the fourth floor of the Church of St. Gregory the Great, on the Upper West Side in New York City, the FBI broke down the church's door to arrest him.

Christians who believe that a Great Apostasy took place early in the church's history are particularly unlikely to employ this term.

During the Great Fire, Samuel Pepys climbed the church's spire to watch the progress of the blaze and what he described as " the saddest sight of desolation ".

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.

After a 1925 fire destroyed the 1828 mission structure, including the surrounding wall, the church's parochial functions were transferred to St. Clare Parish Church, on Lexington Street west of the campus.

The church's boundaries are actually protected on one side by the Town Walls, although originally St. John's was a small Saxon building.

St Matthew is the mother church of Bethnal Green ; the church's opening coincided with a vast population increase in the former village of Stepney, resulting in the need to separate the area around Bethnal Green from the mother Parish of St Dunstan's, Stepney.

The church's earliest known rector was Hugh de Fulbourne in 1329 and around 1338 it became the parish church of Whitechapel, called, for unknown reasons, St Mary Matfelon.

The one in the octagon at the east end of the chancel rests on the site of the medieval high altar which bore the silver reliquary casket containing the remains of St. Olav, the church's and the kingdom's patron saint, and is designed to recall in marble sculpture the essential form of this reliquary casket.

It is the contention of the Church of Ireland that the church's continuation of the celebration of Irish saints ' days, including St Patrick ( 17 March ), St Bridget ( 1 February ) and St Columba ( 6 June ), is a continuation of the independant Celtic Christianity.

Other religious figures became involved in the controversy surrounding the film, including Francis J. Spellman, the Catholic Archbishop of New York, who called it " sinful " and forbade Catholics in the archdiocese to see the film and James A. Pike of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, who countered Spellman by pointing out that there was more " sensuality " in the film The Ten Commandments than there was in Baby Doll, and argued that " the church's duty is not to prevent adults from having the experience of this picture, but to give them a wholesome basis for interpretation and serious answers to questions that were asked with seriousness.

In September 1970, during construction at Church of St. Cross, Middleton, one of these examples was stolen by thieves who managed to remove the coin from the church's cornerstone.

St. Peter, often seen as the first pope, as well as many subsequent popes, bishops, and priests during the church's first 270 years were in fact married men, and often fathers of children.

In at least one episode, the Disciples of Christ denominational logo ( St. Andrew cross and chalice ) is displayed prominently on the front of the church's pulpit.

Berengar was the only major benefactor of the church at Monza at this time and also gave the Cathedral of St. John in Monza a cross made in the same style as the Iron Crown, which is still preserved in the church's treasury.

Shortly after the dedication of the St. George Temple, and before his death in 1877, Young became concerned about the possibility of variations in the ceremony within the church's temples and so directed the majority of the text of the endowment to be written down.

According to tradition a true Cockney must be born within earshot of the sound of Bow Bells ( which refers to this church's bells rather than St Mary and Holy Trinity, Bow Road in Bow which until the 19th century was an outlying village ).

On the church's facade the coconut tree appears as the " tree of life " to which St. Christopher carrying the Child Jesus on his shoulder is clinging to.

St Juliot is of particular interest to devotees of the works of Thomas Hardy since he acted as the architect for the church's restoration in March 1870 and this is where he met his first wife, Emma Gifford, who was the Rector's sister-in-law.

The first mass was celebrated in the church on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1847 and in 1850 Samuel Russell Warren built the church's first organ.

Another possibility is that the church's name actually commemorates a benefactor, possibly one Ranulf Patin, a canon at St Paul's Cathedral during the medieval period, although it would be most unusual for a benefactor to be commemorated in this way.

The vast interior contains many funerary monuments and paintings, as well as the Madonna della Pace, a miraculous Byzantine statue situated in its own chapel in the south aisle, and a foot of St Catherine of Siena, the church's chief relic.