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This character of sacredness , impressed upon the whole existence , is especially remarkable in the first period of the history of the first century , when the Church lived , as it were , in heaven , raised above earth by its young and ardent enthusiasm , or rather , by the all-powerful influence of the divine Spirit . Thus the question : Democracy in the Church ? He has served as a member of the General Commission on Communications of the United Methodist Church and was a member of the board of the Michigan Christian Advocate . Their claim rests on the important duties undertaken by them in connection with those Churches , or rather on the great love they bear them . But he boarded a plane for Xinjiang , where he had a medical case pending and where he wanted to inquire about abuses against members of an underground Christian church . The allusions are also numerous in the letter of the Church of Lyons to the Churches of Asia Minor . This influence , however , never assumed the form of despotic authority , and Luke shows us how it was exercised in harmony with the elective voice of the Church , when he tells us that Paul and Barnabas caused elders to be chosen in all the Churches . As Auerbach writes in " Typological Symbolism in Medieval Literature " : " Her house alone , with all its inhabitants , escapes perdition , just as the church of the faithful will alone be saved when Christ appears for the last judgment . The second , that the patrimony of the several churches having been formed by particular grants , and by a kind of derogation from the order established , they were obliged to have charters granted to them ; whereas the concessions made to the feudal lords being consequences of the political order , they had no occasion to demand , and much less to preserve , a particular charter . The contact into which Jews were brought with converted Gentiles in the Churches founded by St. Paul , contributed effectually to the expansion of heart and mind .