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Falwell called Bakker a liar, an embezzler, a sexual deviant, and " the greatest scab and cancer on the face of Christianity in 2, 000 years of church history ".
The Moral Majority ’ s headquarters were in Lynchburg, Virginia, the same city where Falwell was the presiding minister of the nation ’ s largest independent Baptist church, Thomas Road Baptist Church.
The Passion of the Christ received support and endorsement from most known evangelical leaders and representatives of USA's conservative church organizations: Billy Graham, James Dobson, Mission America Coalition, Salvation Army, Promise Keepers, National Association of Evangelicals, Campus Crusade for Christ, Focus on the Family, Pat Robertson, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Trinity Broadcasting Network, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Jerry Falwell, Max Lucado, Young Life, Tim LaHaye, Chuck Colson, Lee Strobel, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mothers of Pre-Schoolers ( MOPS ), Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In a special business meeting called by the board of deacons on June 3, 2007, Jonathan Falwell was unanimously elected by the congregation to assume his father's duties as senior pastor of the church.
Falwell retained his affiliation with the Baptist Bible Fellowship, and the church he founded in 1956, Thomas Road Baptist Church of Lynchburg, Virginia, is listed in the current BBFI directory.
It is noted that " Bakker arranged for Falwell to take over PTL in March in an effort to avoid what he called a ' hostile takeover ' of the television ministry by people threatening to expose a sexual encounter he admitted to having seven years earlier with church secretary Jessica Hahn.
Dale Ficken and Lorrie Scarangella wed on this date and are married by Jerry Falwell while he sat in his office in Lynchburg VA. and they stood in a church in Pennsylvania.
Weekends consisted of televangelists such as Oral Roberts, Kathryn Kuhlman, Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell, and Billy Graham, local church services.

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In 1985, the president of the Unification Church of the United States, Mose Durst, asserted there was a positive change in perception of the church after Moon's trial and his conviction on federal tax violations and conspiracy: " In one year, we moved from being a pariah to being part of the mainstream.
The signatories, a group of predominantly German-speaking theologians asserted that " the freedom of theologians, and theology in the service of the church, regained by Vatican II, must not be jeopardized again.
" In the sermon, he asserted some current Presbyterian church leaders might be academic " Pharisee-teachers " who did not have the same faith or enthusiasm as newly converted followers, a controversial view which divided the church.
In 1528, More produced another religious polemic, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies that asserted that the Catholic Church was the one true church, whose authority had been established by Christ and the Apostles, and that its traditions and practices were valid.
After the harsh meeting with Bell and other church leaders, and near the end of Tyndale's time at Little Sodbury, John Foxe describes an argument with a " learned " but " blasphemous " clergyman, who had asserted to Tyndale that, " We had better be without God's laws than the Pope's.
She failed in her attempt to use a church synod to dismiss the catholicos Michael, and the noble council, darbazi, asserted the right to approve royal decrees.
He asserted the authority of the presbyters as rulers of the church, on the grounds that the Apostles had appointed such.
Having only his own representations to guide them, and there being no question that Gregory's translation was uncanonical, while the election of Nectarius was open to grave censure as that of an unbaptized layman, Maximus also exhibiting letters from Peter the late venerable patriarch, to confirm his asserted communion with the church of Alexandria, the Italian bishops pronounced in favour of Maximus and refused to recognize either Gregory or Nectarius.
The author asserted that losing the doctrine of the inerrancy of Scripture was the thread that would unravel the church.
After the letter had been purchased for the church and become public knowledge, Apostle Dallin Oaks asserted to Mormon educators that the words " white salamander " could be reconciled with Joseph Smith's Angel Moroni because in the 1820s, the word salamander might also refer to a mythical being thought to be able to live in fire, and a " being that is able to live in fire is a good approximation of the description Joseph Smith gave of the Angel Moroni.
Rather, he asserted that he was king over his church, which he saw as the one, true " Kingdom of God " prophesied in Scripture and destined to spread over all the earth.
Glendenning and his wife were baptized in April 1929, but then he was excommunicated two years later because some LDS Church General Authorities asserted that while people could receive inspiration for themselves, no one could receive authentic divine messages for the church except the President of the Church.
Smith and his associates asserted that the Church of Christ was a restoration of the 1st-century Christian church, which Smith claimed had fallen from God's favor and authority because of what he called a " Great Apostasy ".
" The City further asserted that the then-current Indian Center in a former church near Stewart Street was an adequate facility for Seattle's Indians.
He equally asserted that the Twelve had no right to sit in judgment on him, as he was the lawful President of the church.
Roberts asserted that the authenticity of the Restoration must “ stand or fall ” on the truth of Joseph Smith ’ s claim that the Book of Mormon was the history of an ancient people inscribed on a cache of gold plates ; and Roberts predicted that if church leaders did not address the historical problems of church origins and possible anachronisms in the Book of Mormon, these problems would eventually undermine “ the faith of the Youth of the Church .”
* Apostolic Constitutions ( church regulations supposedly asserted by the apostles )
A pious custom of the church asserted that the icon was painted by St Luke.
Although some Orthodox Christians asserted that the so-called " red " church had forfeited legitimacy by cooperating with the communist government, Rose disagreed.
This idea was vehemently attacked by other Orthodox theologians, who asserted that while man's existence is not accidental by any means, there is no official church doctrine as to the precise process God used in creation, nor the length of time that it might have required.
However his pact with Lamberton and the support of the Scottish church, who were prepared to take his side in defiance of Rome, proved to be of great importance at this key moment when Bruce asserted his claim to the Scottish throne.
The consecration of the church took place in 1157 and asserted Church authority by banishing the King of Meath, Donnchadh Ua Maeleachlainn.

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Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.
The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.
it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.
He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.
He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.
The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
The deacon of the church, Carlson, was its janitor.
But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.
Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
There was the slate roof of the church ; ;
There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

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