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  2. Church membership - Wikipedia

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    "The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." –Augsburg Confession [8] Christian theologians such as Bostwick Hawley teach that church membership is commanded in scripture, grounding this in the fact that "apostolic letters are addressed to the Churches", "Apostolic salutations are to Churches", "Jesus Christ is ...

  3. Ecclesiastical letter - Wikipedia

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    The classification depending upon whether they have been drawn up more as letters, or have been issued by a synod or the diocesan chancery. [1] The pastoral letters are addressed either to all the members of the diocese (litterae pastorales) or only to the clergy, in this case formerly in Latin (litterae encyclicae). The mandates, decrees or ...

  4. List of ecclesiastical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Vowel-sounds were frequently written not after, but over, the consonants. Certain letters, like p and q, that occur with extreme. frequency, e.g. in prepositions and terminations, became the source of many peculiar abbreviations; similarly, frequently recurring words like et (and), est (is).

  5. CES Letter - Wikipedia

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    According to the Salt Lake Tribune and The Daily Beast, the letter has been influential in the decision of many now-former members of the LDS Church to resign their membership. [26] [27] [2] Writer Jana Riess has argued that the impact of the CES Letter has been overstated, yet important. She argues that most members who leave do so for reasons ...

  6. Forms of address in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Salutation in letter Oral address Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly: His Grace The Lord High Commissioner: Your Grace: Your Grace or Sir/Ma'am Clergy: The Rev John Smith: Dear Mr Smith: Mr Smith/Dr Smith etc. Current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland: The Right Rev John Smith: Dear Mr Smith: Mr Smith/Dr ...

  7. Pastoral epistles - Wikipedia

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    Separate male and female roles, however, were not foreign to the authentic Pauline epistles; the First Letter to the Corinthians (14:34–35) commands silence from women during church services, stating that "it is a shame for

  8. Letters to the Editor: Extremism on the school board, sword ...

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    As the salt of our Christian profession becomes unsavory today and the Church's light fades for lack of spiritual oil (Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 25:1-13), God's House again needs to be scrubbed clean!

  9. Church membership council - Wikipedia

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    In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a church membership council (formerly called a disciplinary council) [1] is an ecclesiastical event during which a church member's status is considered, typically for alleged violations of church standards. If a church member is found to have committed an offense by a membership ...