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" The Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry ( RCFM ) is a group of more than 700 clergy , congregations and faith-based organization from 23 faith traditions , including the United Church of Christ , the Episcopal Church , the Unitarian Universalist Association and Reform Judaism . Under Channing 's guidance Unitarianism had abandoned the major dogmas of Calvinism - total depravity , predestination , a God of wrath ; it had shifted the emphasis from stable will to boundless love ; and by such teachings it had captured the greater churches of Boston . Many religious groups have already signed on to join the Rx for Child Survival campaign , including the United Methodist Board of Church and Society , the Church World Service , the National Council of Churches , the Association of Baptists , the United Church of Christ , the Balm in Gilead , the Union of Reform Judaism , the Council of Churches of Massachusetts , the Council of Churches of Sacramento , the Women in Mission and Ministry of the Episcopal Church , the Association of Muslims in America and Faithful America . The dialogue we have so far undertaken is a way we have been offered to affirm together , before the whole world and in the eyes of all Christians , our willingness to make a great effort to re-establish our full communion , the source of such good for the Church of Christ ( cf. Ut unum sint , n. 56 ) . And on the other side , the churches as churches , have no power ( though as members of the commonweal they may have power ) of erecting or altering forms of civil government , electing of civil officers , inflicting civil punishments ( no not on persons excommunicate ) as by deposing magistrates from their civil authority , or withdrawing the hearts of the people against them , to their laws , no more than to discharge wives , or children , or servants , from due obedience to their husbands , parents , or masters ; or by taking up arms against their magistrates , though he persecute them for conscience : for though members of churches who are public officers also of the civil state may suppress by force the violence of usurpers , as Iehoiada did Athaliah , yet this they do not as members of the church but as officers of the civil state . Dedication and ordination at Mwanza , Tanganyika , of the four African pastors in the Africa Inland Church . It is a communion which finds its roots in the common faith in the Holy and Life-giving Trinity proclaimed by the Apostles and transmitted down the centuries by the many Fathers and Doctors of the Church and the Bishops , priests , and martyrs who have followed them . The Great Church of Christ emerged in the area around ancient Byzantium in Asia Minor in the first century of Christianity . For some ages the Catholic Church seems to have dwelt chiefly on the divine nature that was in him , leaving the human element to mystics and other heretical persons , whose bodies served to flesh the swords of orthodox believers . The <new evangelization> , to which I have called the Church on many occasions and to which the Church in America is also committed , finds a model to follow in figures like Rafael Guizar Valencia . First , when he wrote these words , Augustine spoke as a bishop of the Christian church , that is to say , as one of the direct successors of the apostles , with the same authority to preach and teach in the church as they had . His All Holiness has served as a president of the World Council of Churches , which includes most Protestant and Orthodox Churches and has met with the World Jewish Congress and visited Israel where there are many Orthodox Christians . Therefore our holy Mother , the Church of Christ , now brings to our help the all-holy Cross , the joy of the world , the strength of the faithful , the staff of the just , and the hope of sinners , so that by venerating it reverently , we might receive strength and grace to complete the divine struggle of the Fast . Religious missions and various Christian churches often constitute the core around which localized development occurs . Originally known as the Great Church , because of its large size in comparison with the other churches of the then Christian World , it was later given the name of Hagia Sophia , the Holy Wisdom of Christ , the second person of the Holy Trinity . Did he not rob and plunder the churches of the holy apostles ? This attitude of openness culminated in the historic Encyclical of 1920 sent by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to all Christian Churches , calling their leaders to establish a closer relationship with each other . The events of that day in Dallas ushered in a wave of universal mourning that led people of all races and religions to fill their churches , temples , and mosques to pray for the fate of this one man . College speaking at College Church 's Sunday school , attendance at Pierce on Sunday evening after confessions had begun , impression of the meeting at this early stage , thoughts about the confessions , intensity on the first night , activities during that night , Gruendyke 's Bible study and confession the next day , Psalm 119 : 26-33 , confession the only unifying element of the meetings , different character of each night 's meeting , reports of the second night , move from Pierce to College Church on the third night , advantages of College Church as a site , deliverance of a person from a demonic presence , reaction of College Church staff to the revival , debate whether sermon should be offered before confessions , reluctance of the meeting leadership to put themselves forward or over plan , character of fourth night , activities on the fifth night , participation of Duane Litfin on Wednesday , comments by Stephen Kellough and others on Thursday night , testimonies on Thursday night , student who talked about finding Christ ( Penny Mason ) , dedication to missions on the last night , size of the groups each night , inquires from other area pastors , faculty attendance at meetings , caution of pastors , need for care in telling people about the meetings , visits by Life Action Ministries and Moody Radio , visits by students from other colleges , personal impact of meetings , emphasis on salvation in his ministry , recent developments in College Church , interaction between College Church and the College , bad teaching reflected in some confessions , presence of spectators , reaction to charge of emotionalism at the meetings , signs of the meetings ' authenticity , peer pressure , revival as a sign of judgement , part played by the Second Person of the Trinity in the Bible , the spirit of Jesus at the meetings , gratitude to God . Although with a long tradition of use among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin , widespread medicinal application by the mixed race mestizo populations , and 20th century development of the syncretic churches of Brazil , medical and psychiatric researchers have up to now failed to address the question of what are the effects of this highly unusual psychoactive botanical .