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The Universal Life Church was founded by Kirby J. Hensley, "a self-educated Baptist minister who was deeply influenced by his reading in world religion". [4] Religious scholar James R. Lewis wrote that Hensley "began to conceive of a church that would, on the one hand, offer complete freedom of religion, and could, on the other hand, bring all people of all religions together, instead of ...
A spiritualist church is a church affiliated with the informal spiritualist movement which began in the United States in the 1840s. Spiritualist churches exist around the world, but are most common in English-speaking countries, while in Latin America, Central America, Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa, where a form of spiritualism called spiritism is more popular, meetings are held in ...
Life.Church (pronounced "Life Church", formerly known as LifeChurch.tv, Life Covenant Church, and Life Church) is an evangelical Christian multi-site megachurch based in Edmond, Oklahoma, United States of America. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Covenant Church. Craig Groeschel is the founder and senior
Spirit of Life", number 123 in the Unitarian Universalist (UU) hymnal Singing the Living Tradition, [1] is "by far the most commonly sung UU song" (excepting children's recessionals). [2] [3] It was written by Carolyn McDade in 1981. [1] "An outsider examining UU worship practices would almost certainly regard 'Spirit of Life' as the standard ...
In Christian theology the Holy Spirit is believed to perform specific divine functions in the life of the Christian or the church. The action of the Holy Spirit is seen as an essential part of the bringing of the person to the Christian faith. [100] The new believer is "born again of the Spirit". [101]
the term "spirit" is commonly taken as denoting the existence of unseen / otherworldly / life-giving forces; and words such as "morality", " philanthropy " and " humanism " already efficiently and succinctly describe the prosocial-orientation and civility that the phrase "secular spirituality" is meant to convey but without risking confusion ...
After a growing number of the Institute's graduates established churches on teachings by Holmes, it was reorganized in 1949 as the Church of Religious Science. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the 1950s, it split into two organizations that were originally called the United Church of Religious Science and Religious Science International.
The passages that comprise John 4:10–26 are sometimes referred to as the Water of Life Discourse. [4] These references in the Gospel of John are also interpreted as the Water of Life. [3] The term is also used when water is poured during Baptismal prayers, praying for the Holy Spirit, e.g., "Give it the power to become water of life". [5] [6]