`` I leave this church with a feeling that a great weight has been lifted off my heart, I have left my grudge at the altar and forgiven my neighbor ''.

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

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

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.

Interviews with several church leaders have disclosed that this development has raised the question whether the Peace Corps will be able to prevent confusion for church and state over methods, means and goals.

`` Surveys show that one out of three Americans has vital contact with the church.

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.

By analogy, the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the `` world '' in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be the church.

It has been my experience to find as many men as women in church, and to hear almost everyone in church congregations reciting the Latin prayers and responses at Mass.

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.

If the church has followed the plan of cultivation of prospects and carried through a program of membership preparation as outlined earlier in this book, the process of assimilation and growth will be well under way.

The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church.

There is no single " Anglican Church " with universal juridical authority as each national or regional church has full autonomy.

Each church has its own doctrine and liturgy, based in most cases on that of the Church of England ; and each church has its own legislative process and overall episcopal polity, under the leadership of a local primate.

:" 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.

Ambrose's body may still be viewed in the church of S. Ambrogio in Milan, where it has been continuously venerated — along with the bodies identified in his time as being those of Sts.

In the early 7th century Pactus Alamannorum hardly ever mentions the special privileges of the church, while Lantfrid's Lex Alamannorum of 720 has an entire chapter reserved for ecclesial matters alone.

After his death, the king was buried in the church which he had built ; his original tomb has been lost, while his alleged remains are preserved in the shrine where he was reburied after being declared a saint ; his saintliness, however, was never very widely acknowledged outside the bishopric of Liège where he may still be venerated by tradition.

The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

He endowed several church institutions, most prominently his family's Sorø Abbey.

In the 1960s, the ACLU continued its decades-long effort to enforce separation of church and state, and it also defended several anti-war activists during the Vietnam War who burnt draft cards or wore armbands.

That being said, the reason for such absence is highly debated, though several reasons have been put forth throughout church history.

** Arian controversy, several controversies which divided the early Christian church

Moreover, several of the genre's pioneers have been linked with church burnings and murder.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

In the 1870s, the church influence started to diminish slightly with the passing of several laws that took some old roles of the church into the State's hands such as the registry of births and marriages.

Historically, the church had censured Knapp for deviating at several points from Eddy's teaching, and had refused to publish the work.

Many Christian Scientists thought the book violated the church's by-laws, and the editors of the church's religious periodicals and several other church employees resigned in protest.

Near the green typically stand historical visual symbols of New England towns, such as a white church, a colonial meeting house, a colonial tavern or " inne ", several colonial houses, and so on, establishing a scenic historic appearance maintained for both historic preservation and tourism.

As such, during his reign, Constantius made a concerted attempt to mold the Christian church to follow this compromise position, and to this end, he convened several Christian councils during his reign, the most notable of which were one at Rimini and its twin at Seleuca, which met in 359 and 360 respectively.

The 1970 World Conference concluded that several sections that had been added between the 1835 and 1844 editions — mainly dealing with the subjects of temple worship and baptism for the dead — had been published without proper approval of a church conference.

Although he was a Roman Catholic, his body was buried in the Basel Minster, despite its having been changed into a Reformed church several years earlier.

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

Douglass joined several organizations, including a black church, and regularly attended abolitionist meetings.

The LDS Church has also compiled indexes of the submissions of its members, resulting in several large databases: the International Genealogical Index, or IGI, which includes both data extracted from filmed civil and ecclesiastic records from various worldwide locales and member-submitted information ; the Ancestral File, or AF, which includes the contributions of church members ; and the Pedigree Resource File, or PRF, compiled from member and non-member submissions.

Tertullian in an anti-heretical apologetic alludes to instances of the ' interpretation of tongues ' as one among several examples of ' spiritual gifts ' common enough in his day to be easily encountered and provide evidence that God was at work in the church:

He was eventually taken from Prinetti and apprenticed to a blacksmith when he worked as a blacksmith he peed his pants several times because he kept burning himself and since he had no extra pantaloons he was forced to keep them on the rest of the day In Angelo Tesei, he found a congenial music master, and learned to sight-read, play accompaniments on the piano and sing well enough to take solo parts in the church when he was ten years of age.

Further instability ensued, with several massacres, including the St Jean Bosco massacre in which the church of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was attacked and burned down.

In 1171, Absalon issued the " Zealand church law " (), which reduced the number of Canonical Law offenses for which the church could fine the public, while instituting the tithe payment system.

The tomb of William I of Sicily ( the founder's father ), a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus contemporary with the church, under a marble pillared canopy, and the founder William II's tomb, erected in 1575, were both shattered by a fire, which in 1811 broke out in the choir, injuring some of the mosaics, and destroying all the fine walnut choir-fittings, the organs, and most of the choir roof.

There is a fine Gothic Protestant church, the Alexander-Kirche, founded in 1493.

Still higher, and outside the old town, is the fine new parish church of St Michael, consecrated in 1902.

The parish church of St Andrew is a fine building of the 15th century with a tall tower and two aisle.

The abbey church contains some fine examples of cadaver tombs.

The town contains a fine parish church and a considerable number of listed buildings.

Other sights include the 15th century former castle ( Château vieux ) and the adjacent 15th century Roman Catholic church with fine stained glass and sculptures ; a gothic former Franciscan, then Récollets, monastery with a church and a cloister ornated by 17th century frescoes ; as well as several old houses, among which the heavily decorated Maison Katz stands out.

The church has a fine cloister of the 12th century, constructed in part of fragments of earlier buildings.

Most famous for his grand neoclassical works, Kiss also sculpted the fine pulpit of St. Adalbert's church in Tychy's neighbouring town of Mikołów.

A domed church with a cross-shaped nave and elongated apse, and dating from the perhaps as early as the end of the 6th century, its bema was decorated with very fine mosaics that had been restored in the 9th century.

A simple nave-and-chancel church, with a fine chancel arch.

It possesses a church, in Romanesque style, dating from the 11th century, with fine cloisters and the tombs of several members of the Babenberg family.

Mirepoix is a medieval town, as is Saint-Lizier situated on a hilltop with winding streets, fine views and a church with cloisters that are noteworthy.

Over the main door is a fine example of mosaic, carried out by the Italian firm of Salviate, depicting two bishops of the diocese of Elphin connected with the building of the church.

Adjacent to the church yard is Albury Street, which contains some fine 18th century houses which were popular with sea captains and shipbuilders.

The abbey church of St. Pierre, dating chiefly from the 13th century, contains, besides some fine stained glass, twelve representations of the apostles in enamel, created about 1547 by Léonard Limosin.

Loddon has many fine buildings ; from the 15th-century parish church of Holy Trinity, through the 18th-century " Loddon House " ( originally a mental institution ), to " Farthing Green House ", which is a good example of Georgian architecture.

Notable features of the church are the twin towers ( a landmark for miles around ), the Norman nave, the splendid 15th century angel roof in the nave and fine north aisle roof.

Although a number of churches do not survive, St Francis Xavier's in Berrima, New South Wales is regarded as a fine example of a Pugin church.

There is a fine collection of statuary within the church and it houses a number of religious relics.

This is a fine example of a parish church built entirely in the Perpendicular style.

It stands as one of the oldest church buildings in the country, and is a fine example of the architecture of that period.