Word: worshiped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once disdained by upper-crust Protestants as "Holy Rollers," Assemblies worshipers are now on a holy roll. Combining lively worship, warm fellowship and soul-winning zeal, the group posted an astounding 23.6% increase in church attendance between 1979 and 1985, a period when those crustier Protestants were struggling to stem decline. John Vaughn, who tracks church growth from Missouri's Southwest Baptist University, reports that two-fifths of America's most rapidly growing congregations are in the Assemblies. The mammoth First Assembly in Phoenix, for instance, boasts the nation's biggest Sunday school (8,000 students) and Holy Week pageants...
...record, I've always been a Jim Rice enthusiast, my worship growing with the seasons and partially in response to the boos. For the record, I'm also perfectly prepared to become a Lee Smith fan, given time and given his obvious abilities but for the moment, my deepest sympathies lie elsewhere. When I entered Fenway Park Monday, I knew just what had to happen--I had to cheer for Jim Rice...
Gelinas said that local ministers have suggested that the bombing might be connected to devil worship or witchcraft cults which often use animals parts in their rituals...
...Marino acknowledges, blacks and Catholicism in the U.S. have never been completely at ease with each other. In the Republic's early days, blacks found more welcoming accommodation for their religious sensibilities in Protestant styles of worship and theology. Catholics, themselves strangers in a strange land, did not proselytize among slaves until they were freed after the Civil War. Today, only 5% of American blacks are Catholic, and the 1.5 million black Catholics make up 2.8% of the American church. Representation in the clergy is worse. The 350 black priests and 700 black nuns represent less than...
...moment plenty of fire-breathing Swaggart videotapes on the shelf to fill a three-month or one-year void on TV. However, PTL cable decided last week to continue the daily show only if Swaggart does not preside, and Robertson's CBN said it would run the Sunday worship hour only if Swaggart did not preach. Secular stations, however, may be happy to run old Swaggart tapes, so long as the payments arrive on time...