Thus, as church founder Joseph Smith, Jr. explained, the church believes the Bible to be the word of God " as far as it is translated correctly.

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

When the individual believes in Jesus they will profess their faith before the church, often using a ritual called confirmation in which the Holy Spirit is invoked with the laying on of hands.

The church believes that the bread is an effectual sign of His body crucified on the cross and the cup is an effectual sign of His blood shed for humanity.

The church holds that the celebration of the Eucharist is an anamnesis of Jesus ’ death, and believes the sacrament to be a means of grace, and practices open communion.

In the same vein as the separation of church and state, Szasz believes that a solid wall must exist between psychiatry and the State.

In the same vein as the separation of church and state, Szasz believes that a solid wall must exist between psychiatry and the State.

The Christian right believes that separation of church and state is not explicit in the American Constitution, believing instead that such separation is a creation of what it claims are activist judges in the judicial system.

" Paisley's website describes a number of doctrinal areas in which he believes that the " Roman church " ( which he termed Popery ) has deviated from the Bible and thus from true Christianity.

" The Missouri Synod believes that the Bible is the only standard by which church teachings can be judged.

# The role of women in the church: Although both the LCMS and WELS agree that Scripture reserves the pastoral office for men, the WELS also believes that Scripture forbids women's suffrage in the congregation.

Due to this duality, the church believes that their doctrine undervalues everything that is created with materialistic and governmental goals and further claims that the doctrine does not come from the soul, the only divine possession of the human.

# Grace is contrasted with the Law of Moses ( Romans 6: 14 ; Hebrews 10: 4 ; John 1: 17 ) and the church of Christ believes that Paul's contrast between work and faith is as described under the Efforts to resolve the tension section, a contrast between works of the Old Covenant and obedient faith under the New Covenant.

The church of Christ believes that grace provides the following plan, which, if followed, results in salvation:

Through these ' means of grace ' the Liberal Catholic Church believes that Christ is ever present within his church, in fellowship and communion, guiding and protecting them from birth to death.

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.

" The church believes that the Bible " contains one harmonious and sufficiently complete system of doctrine " and is the inspired Word of God.

The church believes that " man is saved by confessing and forsaking his sins, and believing on the Lord Jesus Christ ".

The church believes that sanctification and the baptism in the Holy Spirit are subsequent, distinct, and separate experiences to the new birth.

As a Holiness church of the Wesleyan tradition, COGIC believes that Sanctification is " that gracious and continuous operation of the Holy Ghost, by which He delivers the justified sinner from the pollution of sin, renews his whole nature in the image of God and enables him to perform good works ".

As a Pentecostal church, COGIC believes that Speaking in tongues is the consequence of Spirit baptism and is given to believers who ask for it.

The church believes in the visible Second Coming of Christ.

The church believes in divine healing, however, it does not advocate the exclusion of medical supervision.

A man who gives himself to God and to the believers of his church takes upon himself a life of giving.

The truth, however, is that the ecumenical church is just the local church in its own true character as an integral unit of the whole People of God throughout the world.

Can the church risk assuming that the `` folly '' of men is as dear to God as their `` wisdom '', or, as is also commonly implied, that `` the foolishness of God '' and `` the foolishness of men '' are simply two ways of talking about the same thing??

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

But, as Scripture everywhere reminds us, God does have need of his creatures, and the church, a fortiori, can ill afford to do without the talents with which the world, by God's providence, presents it.

We trust you are not one of the 70,000,000 Americans who do not attend church, but who feel that various forms of recreation are more important than worshipping the God who made our country great.

The entrance to a church has been walled up, so that the congregation, most of which is in the western sector, cannot worship God there anymore.

the church is `` the family of God ''.

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.

According to this corporate election, God never chose individuals to elect to salvation, but rather He chose to elect the believing church to salvation.

In Luke 1: 3-4, the author states that he decided to “ write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the truth concerning the things about which you have been instructed .” Theophilus is Greek for lover of God and it is suggested that he may either be an individual who recently converted to the faith or a Roman official of whom the church is seeking acceptance from.

Some Christian readers consider this story to contain an allegory, representing the interaction between the church as ' bride ' and God.

:" A little later he built a church on his own ancestral property and served God with the utmost devotion.

In addition, the church teaches sacred ordinances through which adherents make covenants with God, including baptism, confirmation, the sacrament ( holy communion ), endowment, and celestial marriage ( marriage blessings which extend beyond mortality ), which are of great significance to church members.

He also introduced the church to a full accounting of his First Vision, in which two heavenly " personages " ( LDS interpret them to be God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ ) appeared to him at age 14.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

When prophets and general authorities of the church speak as " moved upon by the Holy Ghost ", it " shall be scripture, shall be the will of the Lord, shall be the mind of the Lord, shall be the word of the Lord, shall be the voice of the Lord, and the power of God unto salvation.

He used marriage not only to describe the kingdom of God, as Jesus had done, but to define also the nature of the 1st century Christian church.

" He further added, " All who seek God with a sincere heart, including those who do not know Christ and his church, contribute under the influence of Grace to the building of this Kingdom.

Other possibilities are that he was merely opposed to Christians who lived Jewishly, or deny that docetism threatened the church, or that his critical remarks were directed at an Ebionite or Cerinthian possessionist Christology, where God descended and took possession of Jesus's body.