Word: saviours
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...Fellowship, which supports 4,600 Good News Clubs spanning all 50 states, focuses on children because they are so approachable. Its literature exhorts members to seize "every opportunity to instill God's Word in tender hearts while they are young." Most born-again Christians accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour before age 18, according to surveys conducted by the Barna Research Group, an organization based in California that tracks religious attitudes. And children under 14 are most open to the idea, the group has found. Last year, according to the Fellowship's careful record keeping, 17,537 children professed their...
Booke is an ebullient Pentecostal Christian in an orange Stetson. Consistent with his faith, he takes solace in Christ's expected return to earth and his re-establishment of God's kingdom here, regardless of humankind's errors. Like many, Booke believes his Saviour will arrive at precisely the point from which he left. "This is the place," he says. His flock responds with an explosive "Hallelujah!" and a rendition of The Old Rugged Cross...
...dedicates herself to confirming and recapturing this transcendent moment. She first gives Christianity a whirl, attending services at the Greater Love Salvation Church, "a Pentecostal millenarian revivalist congregation." And although she accepts Jesus as her Saviour, she rather quickly grows annoyed at what she sees as his unresponsiveness: "Lord, sometimes I feel like you really aren't listening." Next she hitches up with a group of Buddhists but soon finds the regimen and food unpalatable, "because it seems like there's a fine line between purification and starving to death...
...Hong Kong have scrapped laws criminalizing gay behavior, it may be years before Singaporean society is ready for such a change. Put it this way, despite numerous complaints, angry messages posted in chat rooms and heated debate on a radio show, that banner at the Church of Our Saviour in Queenstown is still flapping in the breeze...
...other details of the communist state tromp through her living room, she simply retreats to the back room and to her Bible. "I have survived this terrible thing because of my faith," she says. "I hope we can help others in China fill their spiritual void with the Saviour...