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.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

Initially the sole preserver of literate scholarship in Western Europe, the church established Cathedral schools in the Early Middle Ages as centers of advanced education.

Although its decisions are accepted by all Christians, and still observed in full by the Greek Orthodox, and later definitions of an ecumenical council appear to conform to this sole biblical Council, no Christian church calls it a mere ecumenical council, instead it is called the " Apostolic Council " or " Council of Jerusalem ".

The radicals preached the " sufficientia legis Christi "— the divine law ( i. e. the Bible ) is the sole rule and canon for human society, not only in the church, but also in political and civil matters.

Steiner states that the sole original source to claim that he did join a church – in Hudson, New York – is Vernon B. Hampton, in Religious Background of the White House ( Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1932 ), the basis of which Steiner was unable to verify.

In this situation of dependency on the powerful neighbors in France, three principles characterized the politics by Clement V: the suppression of the heretic movements ( such as the Cathars in southern France ); the reorganization of the internal administration of the church ; and the preservation of an untainted image of the church as the sole instrument of God's will on earth.

Thus the possibility of incorporating Portugal into the Kingdom of Galicia was eliminated and Afonso become sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's people, church and nobles.

Some Anglicans also opposed the law, believing that the Church of England should be the colony's sole established church.

The Vatican viewed this as a violation of the Concordat, which gave the church the sole right to regulate marriages involving Catholics.

A sense of the independent apostolic succession of the British church endured in the Norman era as the claim that Christianity in Britain had been founded by Saint Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury and that King Arthur, supposedly buried in Glastonbury Abbey, had been the sole upholder of the faith after the fall of Rome.

Ultimately the majority of Cutlerites chose to relocate to Independence, Missouri during the 1920's, where their church headquarters ( and sole branch ) remains today.

It is the sole church in the town and was built by Irish miners in the 1850s under the direction of John Neumann.

The Covenanters were dedicated Scottish Presbyterians devoted to maintaining Presbyterianism as the sole form of church organisation in Scotland.

The Sartell family was largely Presbyterian, and helped organize the first church in the town, Riverside Presbyterian, on the west bank of the Mississippi River and approximately one mile north of the town's ( then ) sole stop-sign, to serve the Sunday interests of local Protestants.

In 1764 Piranesi started his sole architectural works of importance, the restoration of the church of Santa Maria del Priorato in the Villa of the Knights of Malta in Rome, where he was buried after his death, in a tomb designed by Giuseppi Angelini.

David Strauss wrote Das Leben Jesu ( The Life of Jesus | The Life of Jesus, Critically Examined ) in 1835, in which he argued-in a Hegelian framework-against both the supernatural elements of the Gospel and the idea that the Christian church was the sole bearer of absolute truth.

The other great change for the Cathedral occurred in 1871, when, following disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, the newly-independent church in general synod finally resolved the " two cathedral " issue, making Christ Church the sole and undisputed Cathedral of the Dublin Diocese, and St. Patrick's the National Cathedral.

As his family frowned on music being a person's sole trade, Picou trained and worked as a tin smith, including putting the copper sheeting on church steeples ; however soon Picou was so much in demand as a clarinetist that he made most of his living from music.

" Since 1991, the church has been the main London home of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, an African Initiated Church based in Nigeria and led by Olumba Olumba Obu, who followers describe as " the sole spiritual head of the universe ".

It declared that the Roman church was founded by God alone-that the papal power ( the auctoritas of Pope Gelasius ) was the sole universal power ; in particular, a council held in the Lateran from 24 to 28 February the same year decreed that the pope alone could appoint or depose churchmen or move them from see to see.

The concept of corporation sole originated as a means to the orderly transfer of church or religious society property, serving to keep title within the church or religious society.

In order to keep the religious property from being treated as the estate of the vicar of the church, the property was titled to the office of the corporation sole.

Similarly, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS church ) uses the corporation sole form for its president ( The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ).