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Know any churches that may want to join the MBA?
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As you saw at the annual meeting we inducted seven new churches into the MBA in 2005. The Membership Committee will be recommending on January 10 that Forest Lawn Baptist Church come into the MBA under watchcare. Many of you know pastors whose congre
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Why is so little generally known about the Eastern Catholic Churches?
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It would seem the that Eastern Catholic Churches are the best kept secret in Catholicism. For many centuries there was little contact between East and West and the Eastern churches remained isolated in the region where they originated. More recently,
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How many Eastern Churches are there in the Catholic Church?
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The Roman Catholic Church has numerous sister churches in the east. Among them are the Ukrainians, Carpatho-Russians, Hungarians, Croatians, Slovaks, Maronites, Romanians, Armenians, Russians, Chaldeans, Byelorussians, and of course, the Melkites. Th
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What is meant by the term Eastern Churches?
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These churches are the ecclesiastical communities that originated in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. They are recognized for their distinct and characteristic style of Christian living and their theological expression of the one faith through p
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When Did the Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches Split?
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The official break, sometimes referred to as the Great Schism, came in 1054, when Pope Leo IX excommunicated Michael Cerularius, the patriarch of Constantinople, and Cerularius anathematized (condemned) the pope in response. The two denominations, wh
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Why are people today separating from their churches of origin?
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Many people today are separating from their institutional churches of origin for the third reason. They are following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ. Jesus did not reject the principles of the Mosaic Law. He only perfected them. He rejected the Jew
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What are three false teachings that the Catholic church and most Protestant churches hold in common?
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(1) The change of the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, the seventh day, into Sunday as the Lord's day and a memorial of the resurrection. Baptism is the memorial of the resurrection. Romans 6:4-5 "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into de
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How do you interpret the Catholic Churches teachings on family planning and contraception?
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One of the key arguments that the church wants to make is that we're not talking about a peculiar sectarian sect of doctrines of a peculiarly distinctively religious nature here. But we're rather asking the question about the human being. Who is the
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Do some churches have wedding coordinators on staff?
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Yes, many of them do. This is something that you will need to ask about when you reserve the facility for your wedding. If there is a coordinator on staff, he or she may not appreciate you bringing in an outside coordinator. However, after your consu
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Why don’t Mormon churches have crosses on them?
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Latter-day Saints object to the use of a cross on their buildings and the wearing of the cross. They view the symbolism of the cross as having a pagan origin and that it symbolizes Christ's torture and death, not his resurrection. LDS Apostle Bruce R
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