believes that churches should be tax exempt‚ it is apparent that if a church requires the same infrastructure as any other taxpaying enterprise‚ it should not be free from from paying taxes. All of which is demonstrated through the unbiased facts in Source A‚ the logical presentation of Source C‚ and the hardly opinionated Source G‚ which all include a sense of responsibility and equality. Although it is thought by many believers‚ such as in Source B‚ that churches should be tax exempt because
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Mid County Arabic Baptist Church of St. Louis - Mission 11510 Old St. Charles Road Bridgeton MO 63044 636-282-9764 Pastor: Hermez Moshi Bethany Deaf Baptist Church 310 E. Argonne Dr Kirkwood‚ MO 63122 314-984-9224 Pastor: Thomas Lovis Bible Way Baptist Chruch 7800 Groby St. Louis‚ MO 63130 314-725-8838 Pastor: Nate Strachan Dorsett Village Baptist Church 2240 Bennington Pl. Maryland Heights‚ MO 63043 314-576-7729 Pastor: Mark Cline www.dorsettvillagechurch.org
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land. This proved difficult for peasants as the time they spent working on Church land‚ could have been better spent working on their own plots of land producing food for their families. They paid 10% of what they earned in a year to the Church (this tax was called tithes). Tithes could be paid in either money or in goods produced by the peasant farmers. As peasants had little money‚ they almost always had to pay in seeds‚ harvested grain‚ animals etc. This usually caused a peasant a lot of hardship
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THE PROLIFERATION OF CHURCHES IN NIGERIA By NBF News Is there anything wrong with proliferation of churches? My answer to this question is yes and no. Yes‚ because in Nigeria‚ there is no need for it since the establishment of churches has been grossly abused‚ with every Tom‚ Dick and Harry setting up a church after graduating from the Bible College. And no‚ because if churches were run with the fear of God‚ there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. If we have churches in all the nooks and
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European Journal of Scientific Research ISSN 1450-216X Vol.45 No.4 (2010)‚ pp.649-657 © EuroJournals Publishing‚ Inc. 2010 http://www.eurojournals.com/ejsr.htm Proliferation of Churches: A Leeway to Commercialization of Religion Anthonia M. Essien Department of Religious and Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts‚ University of Uyo‚ Nigeria E-mail: eteyesma@yahoo.com Tel: +234(0)8033596961 Abstract This paper posits that religion has become a top bracket business in Nigeria. This is occasioned by the
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and groundbreaking architecture? Churches are everywhere. The buildings that shelter worshipers and become major architectural landmarks have been omnipresent in humanity for thousands of years. Throughout time many architecturally significant churches have been destroyed through war‚ misguided renovations‚ and natural disasters. During Medieval times in Norway‚ thousands of Stave churches began to appear across the country‚ but few remain today. The Stave churches’ unique architectural building techniques
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- India ’s Churches of Indigenous Origin. Delhi: ISPCK‚ 2000. India Gospel League. "Vision 2000." Statistics and Records. Salem‚ March 31‚ 2011. Hiebert‚ Paul G.. Transforming worldviews: an anthropological understanding of how people change. Grand Rapids‚ Mich.: Baker Academic‚ 2008. Hiebert‚ Paul G.. The Gospel in Human Contexts: anthropological explorations for contemporary missions. Grand Rapids‚ Mich.: Baker Academic‚ 2009. Hminga‚ Chhangte Lal. The life and witness of the churches in Mizoram
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they are both Christian churches‚ so they were made to worship Jesus Christ as the lord and savior. They are both located in northern Europe ; the Chartres in Chartres‚ France as it is named after the town‚ and then the Saint-Foy in Conques‚ France. Both of them were undertakings in which they were paid for by the leaders of the cities they reside in. They both are very much a part of the towns they are in‚ whereas there are building and houses right next to the churches. They were both built
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people who created it. It’s why hospitals are clean and hotels are lavish‚ and why we’re going to expect specific friends houses to look a certain way before we see them. The same way all of this still applies to our life‚ the Catholic and Protestant Churches of the era surrounding the Reformation were designed by the people in the faith to represent the ideals of their religion‚ and you can see many of the differences between the two such as the belief in the supremacy of the Pope‚ the separate means
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Although the purpose of pagan temples and Christian churches happens to be the same‚ simply a dwelling place of God or gods‚ there are numerous differences between these structures. Although many of differences happen to consist of architectural aspects within these buildings‚ the most important was in the transition that occurred in shift from the restricted temples‚ to the public worship within Christian churches. The pagan temples housed within their walls statues of the gods to whom they
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