The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.

There were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

The service is over, and a number of people come from the church with their spokesman Mityukh in the lead.

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.

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.

However needed this may be, the fundamental problem is not information but active commitment to the total mission of the church of Christ in the world.

The basic unit in the church, of whatever denominational polity, is always the congregation.

There is a vast difference between the community of reconciliation which the New Testament describes and the community of congeniality found in the average church building.

He often spoke of them as his `` ecumenical '' glasses and used them as a symbol of the kind of vision that is required in the church.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

But what is this church doing to help its members understand their roles as Christians in the world??

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

There must first be a deeper sense that the church belongs not to us but to Christ, and that it is His purpose, not our own interests and preferences, that determines what it is to be and do.

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.

As you approach the church on the Via D. Baullari you are passing within yards of the remains of the Roman Theatre of Pompey, near which is believed to have been the place where Julius Caesar was assassinated.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

Rare, indeed, is the Harlem citizen, from the most circumspect church member to the most shiftless adolescent, who does not have a long tale to tell of police incompetence, injustice, or brutality.

If we add to these contacts with friendly members the `` contacts with an organization of the church '' ( 11.2 per cent of the cases ), then a substantial two thirds of all recruitment is through friendly contact.

The core of the long, single-nave church is still the 15th-century building.

The complex of the Studenica monastery includes the Church of St. Nicholas, a small single-nave church frescoed inside with works from the 12th or possibly early 13th centuries.

* Matriz Church of São Pedro ()-a stoic single-nave brick church constructed, nonetheless, in the Manueline-style ;

* Church of São Roque (), the parochial single-nave church, dedicated to Saint Roch, was completed in 15th century.

It was torn down in order to build a simple, single-nave church with a rectangular sanctuary in 1908, which is still there today, with a belltower added in 1923.

The original church, now incorporated as a transept, was a single-nave structure whose main door was also the gate to a bastioned fortification.

The church is a single-nave church of the " Møre "- type, characterized by central posts in the external wall and crossbeams.

This is a single-nave stave church of the east Scandinavian-style, and it is the only one that is preserved.

The north portal of the 11th century Urnes stave church has been interpreted as containing depictions of snakes and dragons that represent Ragnarök

It is built on bridges and landfills across small islands and skerries, and spans from the small communities of Vikan and Vevang to Averøy, an island with several historic landmarks, such as the Bremsnes cave with Mesolithic findings from the Fosna culture, the medieval Kvernes stave church, and Langøysund, now a remote fishing community, but once a bustling port along the main coastal route.

The first is the Norway pavilion, a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church which is now preserved at a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

* Garmo stave church ( built around 1150 )

Sigurd Fåvnesbane featured on the portal plank from Hylestad stave church

Replica of Norwegian stave church at the Hjemkomst Center

The church is a full-scale replica of the Hopperstad stave church in Vik, Norway.

During this time period, the town had one Methodist church, a Masonic lodge, two general stores, multiple grist mills, two saw mills, two tanneries and stave manufacturers and dealers.

There is also a Norwegian stave church, moved here from Vang, Norway in the mid-19th century.

Sogn og Fjordane is also home to the Urnes stave church and Nærøyfjord, which is listed by UNESCO as world heritage sites.

* Nore stave church ( built around 1166-1200 )

* Uvdal Stave Church, a stave church originally constructed just after the year 1168

At Midtskog (), today called Matrand, a stave church was raised in the 12th century.

It was a stave church, and it was by 1686 in very bad condition.

The old stave church was yet again in bad condition, and also too small for the growing community.

The old stave church was then torn down.

A wrought iron ornament, also of the 13th century, which originally decorated the entrance door to the old stave church, is now reused in a 17th century door placed in one of the church's side entrances.

Vågå stave church is the second oldest stave church in the country, which was constructed around 1150 and originally dedicated to St. Peter.

The stave church at Ringebu, built around the year 1220, is one of fewer than 30 surviving stave churches and is one of the largest.

It is blue with gold silhouette of the gilt-copper medieval reliquary ( chasse ) that is still found in the Hedal stave church, but with five blue arches inspired by the arches on a similar medieval chasse from the medieval St. Thomas Church at Filefjell and representing the five Lutheran parishes of the municipality.