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At 09:33 AM 1/30/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Not only Catholics and Baptists use hagionomes (saint-names) for their
churches.
>Methodists, Episcopalians, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, African
>Methodist Episcopal, etc. use names of saints in their church names.  Non-
>Catholic communities do, however, seem to restrict themselves to the Biblical
>saints and do not extend the names to the post-Apostolic, historical saints.
>
>I personally think that a church name should be carefully chosen and reflect
>more spiritual notions about a church than the name of a saint.  Every work
>for God should be dedicated to His name and glory and should not, I emphatical-
>l

In my original comments of this thread, I was indicating that I feel
uncomfortable with "ministries" that go by the names of the main person
involved such as Bill Graham Ministries, Copeland Ministries, etc.  This to
me is the same as naming a church after a saint.

It is God's ministry- we are simply the servants He works through.
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Rex Deckard
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