Presbyterians in a sentence

A PC(USA) renewal movement, Fellowship of Presbyterians (FOP) (now The Fellowship Community ), held several national conferences serving disaffecting Presbyterians.

Baptists also use a lot of water when we baptize, but 20 ounces will baptize a dozen Presbyterians!

Even though our Sunday School children didn’t litter the carpet with the palms(remember, they’re Presbyterians), I reflected upon the time palms were strewn upon Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare two thousand years ago.

That includes non-Presbyterians (often advocates and experts with an interest in an issue under debate), who are invited to participate in the assembly process through open hearings.

But his mother was a Catholic, and his parents agreed to raise their sons as Presbyterians and their daughters as Catholics.

Mr. Lee married Tseng Wen-fui, the daughter of a prosperous landholding family, in 1949, and both became devoted Presbyterians.

American Presbyterians and Methodists arrived in the 1880s and were well received.

Amongst their number have been Puritans/Undetermined Protestants, Quakers, Independents, Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Wesleyan and Primitive Methodists, Salvationists, Plymouth Brethren, Jehovah's Witnesses and Pentecostals.

By using the "empty" cross, or cross of the resurrection, Presbyterians emphasize the resurrection and that Christ is not continually dying, but died once and is alive for all eternity.

Disillusioned by the Covenanters, in October Charles attempted to escape from them and rode north to join with an Engager force, an event which became known as "the Start", but within two days the Presbyterians had caught up with and recovered him.

He attempted to mediate between the army and civil society, and allowed a Parliament which contained a large number of disaffected Presbyterians and Royalists.

Hence there is a strong presence of Presbyterians in Shillong (the present capital of Meghalaya) and the areas adjoining it.

However, there are still stalwart Presbyterians and Presbyterian churches in the area.

In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.

In Scotland, the Presbyterians played a similar role to the Nonconformist Methodists, Baptists and other groups in England and Wales.

In what some interpret as rueful self-reproach, some Presbyterians refer to the divided Presbyterian churches as the "Split P's".

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

Methodists were active along with Presbyterians and Baptists.

Officials of the Presbyterian Church USA report: "We acknowledge the role of scriptural authority in the Presbyterian Church, but Presbyterians generally do not believe in biblical inerrancy.

Presbyterians also helped to shape voluntary societies that encouraged educational, missionary, evangelical, and reforming work.