CHURCHES
(See also Cathedrals; Christendom; Clergy; Shrines)
(Note centered headings below: Buildings; Quotations)
“anathemas” and “interdicts”: it-2 301
asked to cease proselytizing: g98 5/8 28
ask forgiveness for past sins: w98 3/1 3-7
attitude toward sin: w87 7/15 24
Bible usage of term “church”: g01 3/8 12
celebrate Darwin’s birthday (U.S.): g 11/06 27
clothing of attenders: g99 7/22 29
collections:
use of debit and credit cards: g03 8/8 29
commerce: g02 6/22 29
decline: g 2/07 3-8; g02 4/22 5-7; w98 7/1 3
attendance: g96 4/8 3-4; jv 253
Britain: w89 1/15 30
Church of England: re 229; g89 11/22 19; w86 6/15 14
efforts to reverse: g98 12/8 29
Germany: g 2/07 5; g03 12/8 29
Netherlands: g88 2/8 12-13, 15
reasons for resigning: w98 7/1 3
reverse flow of missionaries: w04 3/1 3-4
trend toward private religion: g02 4/22 4, 8-9
United Church of Canada: w88 12/15 7; g87 12/8 29
U.S. Protestant denominations: g97 6/22 28; g91 1/8 28
youths attending: g88 6/8 19
dismissals of clergy:
recommendation to dismiss incompetent pastors: g88 11/22 30
Southern Baptist Church (U.S.): g90 5/8 28; g89 3/22 30
disunity: w10 9/15 15; w04 3/1 6; w94 7/1 3-7
over year 2000: g96 10/8 29
World Council of Churches: g99 4/8 28; g93 3/8 29; g91 2/22 10-11
efforts to attract people:
commercial advertising: g86 2/22 30-31
“Gospel Clowns”: w88 5/15 27
offer money: g94 12/8 29
violent video games: g 8/08 30
efforts to “restore” Witnesses: yb89 152-153
experiences:
accept truth: yb96 172-173
African chief praises Witnesses at interdenominational convention: w87 10/1 21
failure to promote house-to-house work helps woman to learn truth: w86 10/1 21
founder accepts truth: yb97 111-114
invitation to speak at church seminars: yb88 56-57
prominent church member explains her absence: yb13 74
withdrawing from church: jv 53; yb89 138-139
Witnesses give talks: yb89 166-167
Witness teaches in Sunday school: yb91 75-76
failure to prevent terrorism: g87 1/8 11-12
failure to promote evangelism by members: w99 12/15 32; w90 6/15 30
failure to teach love: g98 10/22 3-4
faith healing: w87 12/1 3, 6-7
financial support: w13 7/1 4; w02 12/1 3-4
financial problems: w88 2/15 21
home visits for: w88 2/15 21
Germany, Federal Republic of (West):
church tax: g91 1/8 29
homosexuality accepted: w90 10/15 21
megachurches: w07 3/1 4; g 2/07 6; g92 1/8 28
miniservice: g93 9/8 29
moral guidance lacking: g 4/07 7; g93 8/8 7
Nazism supported by: w97 8/15 32; g95 8/22 12-15
opposition to Witnesses:
church holds meeting in hall rented for Memorial: w10 6/15 19
reactions to imprisonment and later release of representatives (1918-1919): re 168; w89 4/1 9; w89 5/1 4; w86 2/1 13; ws 33-34
political involvement: g88 12/22 3-6; g87 4/22 3-10; w86 7/15 27
comments of Dutch journal Kerk en Theologie: g89 4/8 31
Free Church of Scotland justifies nuclear retaliation: w86 5/15 27
racial prejudice: w99 8/1 32
social work used for conversion: w87 1/15 3-6
South Africa:
Protestant disunity: g88 6/22 3, 6
spiritism condoned: w87 9/1 3-4
true Christians not scattered in: scl 18; rs 283
United States:
attendance: w88 4/15 21
failure to inculcate Biblical values: w88 4/15 21
forecast by panel of Protestant scholars: g86 6/22 29
war: w06 3/1 6
comments by director of World Council of Churches: w88 5/15 27
South Africa: yb07 112-113
whether to belong to a church: w04 6/1 3-4
why people go: w03 12/1 3-4
Buildings
attending wedding or funeral in: w14 11/15 14; w07 10/15 27-29; w02 5/15 28
baptisteries: g 9/07 12-14
built on pagan sites with astronomical characteristics: g05 12/22 23-24
chapels closed (Wales): g96 9/8 31
church bells: g92 2/8 28
church in Mejorada del Campo (Spain): g96 4/8 10
Church of the Holy Sepulchre: it-1 983-984; it-2 368, 948; w08 3/15 22-23; w99 2/15 24-25; w92 1/15 32
divine name: g 7/10 21; g 11/09 24-25; g04 1/22 8-9, 31
cornerstone (Hawaii): w88 4/1 31
entryway (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.): w08 6/1 22
Finland: yb90 188-189
French Polynesia: w03 7/1 29
Italy: g88 4/22 19
Eastern Orthodox: sh 278
experiences:
churches close when leaders become Witnesses: yb97 168-169
finds Witness books in church: yb11 67-68
tract Ecclesiastics Indicted distributed in three churches: w24.10 4
for sale: g03 2/22 29; g96 3/22 29; g93 9/8 29
labyrinths and mazes: g99 12/22 20, 23-24
lightning strikes Catholic church: yb97 214
no link with temples in Israel: w02 11/15 6
Pantheon (Rome): g01 10/8 8; w99 3/15 24-25
sanctuaries for criminals: w95 11/15 11
not like cities of refuge in Israel: it-1 472
smoke from candles and incense: g05 11/22 29
stained glass: g91 3/8 22-24
used for other purposes: g 4/07 30; w02 11/15 4; g97 2/22 29; g93 9/8 10-11; g88 2/8 12-13, 15
victimized by crime: g95 7/22 28
robberies: g96 2/22 28; g92 1/8 28; g92 11/8 29
whether needed for worship: w02 11/15 3-9
why Kingdom Halls not called churches: ijwfq article 24
Quotations
Christian Churches are the finest blood-lust creators we have: g98 10/22 4; g96 4/22 5; w94 12/15 28; g94 10/22 3; g93 4/22 5
church became part and parcel of the war system: w94 3/1 10-11; ws 31
churches have given themselves to blessing wars, troops, and weapons and prayed in a very unchristian way for destruction of their enemies: w97 1/1 32; ba 25; g95 8/22 14; g93 4/22 7
church follows the flag: w96 4/15 13; g96 4/22 5; g93 4/22 4
church simply does not have a cutting edge. It has taken the culture of our time and absorbed it: jv 172
failing badly in making contact with deep spiritual hunger: w87 5/1 13
I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost a sin not to get involved: g87 4/22 7
lower entrance requirement than a bus: g 4/07 7
not penetrating to the basic level of inculcating values: w88 4/15 21
not so much the light of the world as the reflector of lights which shine in the world: w93 4/1 16
supermarket dispensing spiritual junk food to passers-by: g86 6/22 29
time to get politics out of the pulpit and the pulpit out of politics: g87 4/22 10
too many churches have become entertainment centers: w89 2/15 30