Some within the ELCA argued that requiring the historic episcopate would contradict the traditional Lutheran doctrine that the church exists wherever the Word is preached and Sacraments are practiced.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

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.

Calvin preached at St. Pierre Cathedral, the main church in Geneva.

Saint Lebuin, an Englishman who between 745 and 770 preached to the Saxons, mainly in the eastern Netherlands, built a church and made many friends among the nobility, some of whom compelled to save him from an angry mob at the annual council at Marklo.

Bede says that Ninian was a Briton who had been instructed in Rome ; that he made his church of stone, which was unusual among the Britons ; that his episcopal see was named after Saint Martin of Tours ; that he preached to and converted the southern Picts ; that his base was at " hwit ærn ", which was in the province of the Bernicians ; and that he was buried there, along with many other saints.

While the ships were lying offshore between St Andrews and Dundee, the spires of the parish church where he preached appeared in view.

The church in which he preached, the Église de Notre Dame la Neuve — now known as the Auditoire de Calvin — had been granted by the municipal authorities, at Calvin's request, for the use of the English and Italian congregations.

At the church of St John the Baptist, Knox preached a fiery sermon and a small incident precipitated into a riot.

On 29 July 1567, Knox preached James VI's coronation sermon at the church in Stirling.

St. Mary's Church, the parish church in which Luther often preached, was built in the 14th century, but has been much altered since Luther's time.

* Eremo delle Carceri, a small monastery with church at a canyon above Assisi, where S. Francis retreated and preached to birds

The Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmadge was a member and preached at the church.

There is a service at the church, where a sermon is preached: afterwards a procession takes place, and the wells are visited in succession: the psalms for the day, the epistle and gospel are read, one at each well, and the whole concludes with a hymn which is sung by the church singers, and accompanied by a band of music.

Emma publicly denied that her husband had ever preached or practiced polygamy, which later became a defining difference between the church under Brigham Young, and the church under her son Joseph Smith III that she remained affiliated with until her death at the age of 74.

" On Wednesday 26 July, he preached on church reformation, satirizing the religious reformers, and maintaining that only the Supreme Power could initiate reforms.

It was a doctrine of comprehension and toleration, forming a marked and valuable contrast to the arrogance of absolutism, to the dogmatism of sensationalism, and to the doctrine of church authority, preached by the theological school of his day.

Stagg “ It was reconditioned ( c. 1615 )… the priest at Vang preached there once a year – on July 2nd … many sought cures for their ailments in the miraculous powers possessed by splinters from its timbers …” A market grew up near the church as a result of the July 2nd service.

" We all went to church and heard a charity sermon preached by a Dr Crane before the Duke of Kent ".

William styled his preaching after the revivalist American James Caughey, who had made frequent visits to England and preached at Booth's favourite church, Broad Street Chapel.

During his second and third years at the College, he preached at a Presbyterian church in Carberry, Manitoba.

The relative bareness of the church corresponds with the austerity of religious life, as preached by Girolamo Savonarola.

An evangelist at heart, he preached and encouraged the church to remember its spiritual foundation of the past but also to embrace wholistic ministry for the future.

Like the founders of the Oxford Movement who ardently opposed the Victorian Radicalism centered in competitive economic self-determination, the founders of Young England rejected utilitarian ethics, blamed the privileged class for abdicating its moral leadership, and blamed the church for neglecting its duties to the poor, among them alms-giving.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

A minister should not stay `` beyond the time that his leadership should benefit '' his church, he wrote, `` for he becomes ordinary.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

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

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

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 ; ;

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

And for him to leave this job now without accomplishing anything would mean practically the end of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all churches.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

He was not sure how much of this desire was due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego, demanding to be satisfied, for the two were intertwined and could not be separated.

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.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

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.

Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.