The list given here for these churches is the most inclusive: if at least one Eastern church accepts the book it is included here.

Today, the church accepts women as priests and Halonen has stated that she has no personal reason not to return to the church but refrains from doing so in order not to give a signal that might be misinterpreted.

* The Russian Orthodox Church holds a sobor ( church council ) which deposes Patriarch Nikon, but accepts his liturgical reforms.

" When a person accepts himself as loved by God, he is liberated from conceptions of " the blood line, the nation, the church, money, ego, entitlement, sexual muscle, security, violence, and the paltry gods of modern life.

At the church Wayne and Margaret are together and she accepts him back, taking his hand.

1555 – city council accepts reformation officially, the Protestants take over the church, the Roman Catholic priest Jan Siński dies in the following turmoil

Unless this basic storyline has been altered by Mr. Gibson, a fringe Catholic who is building his own church in the Los Angeles area and who apparently accepts neither the teachings of Vatican II nor modern biblical scholarship, The Passion of the Christ retains a real potential for undermining the repudiation of classical Christian anti-Semitism by the churches in the last forty years.

: This church accepts the canonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the inspired Word of God and the authoritative source and norm of its proclamation, faith, and life.

However, the church accepts as valid all scientifically verifiable discoveries in geology and other natural phenomena, for we firmly believe that God is the Creator.

The Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship, International is a fellowship of churches and individuals representing various denominations or organizations ( originally from an African-American Baptist background ) that accepts the operation of spiritual gifts ( the charismata ) in the church today, in reaction to the teachings of many Baptist bodies.

The Strangite church is headquartered in Voree, Wisconsin, just outside Burlington, and accepts the claims of James Strang as successor to Joseph Smith, as opposed to those of Brigham Young, Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith III, or any other Mormon leader.

Although the Temple Lot church accepts the veracity of Joseph Smith as a prophet of God, they do not necessarily accept everything that Smith taught or claimed as revelation.

It is within the Diocese of Winchester and accepts children from ages four to eleven, and has close ties with St Nicholas's church.

The church accepts two ordinances-water baptism by immersion, and the Lord's supper.

The Cutlerite church retains an endowment ceremony believed to date to the Nauvoo period, practices the United Order of Enoch, and accepts Baptism for the Dead, but not eternal marriage or polygamy.

There is a time that while walking past a church he is spotted by a priest who asks him to perform in a Christmas Pageant, a task which he reluctantly accepts.

Nora at first is skeptical but accepts the idea under one condition to still give a donation to the church and Children's Hospital of $ 600.

The church accepts the Lambeth Quadrilateral as its basis and recognises the historical episcopate in its constitutional form.

In general, the ALCA accepts the creeds of the Evangelical Lutheran church and puts emphasis on the necessity of regeneration and the practical importance of absolution from sin.

Instead, Homer receives the deed to the church and, despite Marge's objections, moves the family there, displacing Reverend Lovejoy, who relectantly accepts an invitation to stay with Ned Flanders and his family.

Reflecting this, " The church ... accepts the validity of a person's refusal to engage in

He ends up in a small town mistaken for a parson, and accepts a position at the local church.

She still accepts her family's beliefs, goes to church with them and celebrates Christian holidays.

`` Such a church needs vigor and vitality in its rector and one man has only so much of these endowments '', he told his members.

It reported that he now devoted only some 6-1/2 hours per month to public preaching and from 20 to 25 hours per month to church activities.

The other misconception is that our ecumenical problems will be solved if only the knowledge of the church in its world-wide extension and its interdenominational connections, now comprehended by many national leaders, can be communicated to all congregations.

As a result, they go on thinking of the church, with introverted and self-centered satisfaction, only in connection with the way in which it serves them and their families.

To put it bluntly, many a local church is giving its members only what they consciously want.

Yet the truth, according to the New Testament, is that every local church has its existence only by being the embodiment of the whole church in that particular place.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

To a Blackwell, there was only one church.

Being a woman though, she would take only what she needed from church.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

The Church of England was the established church not only in England, but in its trans-Oceanic colonies.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Some bishops were initially reluctant to attend, fearing that the meeting would declare itself a council with power to legislate for the church ; but it agreed to pass only advisory resolutions.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

Alfonso's only brother, Ramiro, had been a Benedictine monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession.

Other terms used are hearth, theod ( only within the Theodish movement ), blotgroup, sippe, and other less popular ones such as garth, stead, church, and others.

Along with his colleague the Archbishop of York he chairs the General Synod and sits or chairs many of the church's important boards and committees ; power in the church is not highly centralised, however, so the two archbishops can often lead only through persuasion.

It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

Apollos only knew of the baptism of John which suggests, as is reflected in Acts, that consistent baptismal practice was still developing in the nascent church.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The monarchy continued to endow the Monastery of Alcobaça with further construction and 60 years later King Dinis built the main cloister but it was only in 1252 that the Monastery was inaugurated within the church.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.