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Although we have a kind of body of executive elders to make crucial financial decisions, etc., about the church, we want the oversight of the church to be open and collegial.

In the church I currently attend (male pastor but very open to female pastors) the numbers are about equal.

CNN: Convention's Mormon speakers expected to shed light on Romney's faith life Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church — and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

A simple way for church leaders to show that homosexuality is not shameful is by publicly inviting gay or same - sex attracted people to be open about it, and to assure them of a warm welcome and true acceptance if they are.

If «believers» aligned their right beliefs with right practice, fewer church members would look elsewhere for critically important discussions about caring, inclusiveness, open dialogue, ethical decision - making, and shared doubts in the context of a disturbing contemporary polarized culture.

I'm open about my struggle with the church, with my vocation,...

About 400 worshippers were attending the service when two bombers carrying assault rifles stormed the church, triggering a gun battle in which one assailant was killed by police guards and the other opened fire at worshippers and detonated his explosives vest.

I still think we should still go to the church... or maybe a meeting where all the believer can learn from each other, strengthening each other, pray for each other etc, and of course, to worship God together... It is true that sometime I feel that I do not learn many thing from the sermon, but, many times, I learn by going to the church, knowing that I will not learn something from the preacher, humble myself to still listen to God and worship Him,,,, it is such a blessing to hear others testimony about how God works in their life, it is such an encouragement to see people open up their problem, then, we can pray about them..

Pastor Carl Lentz, leader of Hillsong Church New York, has opened up about the night he baptised pop - star Justin Bieber.

This is not the place to get into a debate about the tribulation so all I will say is at least be open to the possibility that Jesus was warning the Church to ready for persecution and be therefore prepared to endure to the end in the face of whatever might come.

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

I enjoy it better when church institutions talk about the open arms of Jesus, and the narrow doors of their church group.

It does not share the fundamental Catholic convictions about sacramental marriage: an exclusive, lifelong union of man and woman that is open to new life, a faithful and unbreakable bond mirroring God's love for humanity and, specifically, Christ's love for the Church.

About once a month he opens his chopper up to local pastors, who fly over their churches and areas of the city they think are experiencing hardship and pray for them.

When I have led or participated in conversations in churches and Christian organizations about the desire and challenge to keep growing in both numbers and multiethnicity there is always a moment when someone throws up her hand to say, «But our doors are open to everyone!

My disappointment is that the church has been slow to change, reluctant to seek unity, afraid to identify with the poor and hesitant about opening its doors to spiritual explorers who may have questions about traditional beliefs.

Any way say, Man of God respectable Terry Jones, of Florida's Dove's Church, maybe a day would come that the world and Muslims would thank you for your causing all these discussions to come out today's on this site blogs and many other sites blogs and to it leading to have more people religious discussions leading them read and learn more about Islam and the Quran many who's eyes had opened to reality converted to Islam or at least respect Muslims and their religion.

Her second point was that teenagers are already talking about this, so it is easy for Christians to engage with when we've got such an appealing alternative: «If the church wants to be connecting with young people, we need to be hearing what their concerns are and this has been subject young people have been really willing to open up about.»

Preachers usually preach the scripture about «not forsaking to assemble yourselves together» meaning that is a command to attend church (every time the door is open)..

I was just sharing last night how a woman at my last church was talking about unconditional love in the face of her grandkids opening presents, but when she didn't hear the tried and true message from the previous pastor (who by the way was one of architects of the church's mission to «love God and love people unconditionally) that was a problem.

Pippa Evans and Sanderson Jones — two British comedians — have opened the Sunday Assembly, which is calling itself the first atheist church in the U.K. «We thought it would be a shame not to enjoy the good stuff about religion, like the sense of community, just because of a theological disagreement,» says Mr. Jones, who once sold out a show the Sydney Opera House by selling all his tickets by hand, which is pretty impressive.

I been an elder on a church board for about 2 days once, my eyes were opened shockingly and I stepped down after first board meeting.

Jeremy thanks for your comments alot of this i never really thought about before until you provoked me to seek the truth in the word it is what we all should be doing finding the truth for ourselves God wants to reveal mysterys if we are open to hear.If we have been christians awhile we just take the word of whoevers preaching or whichever clip we see on god tube its knowledge but not revelation.Because the story sounds plausible we tag that on to our belief for example for many years i believed that the rich young rulers problem was money so the way to deal with that problem is to give it away and be a follower of Jesus sounds plausible.Till you realise every believers situation is different so the message has to be universal.So the reason its not about money because it excludes those that do nt have it and does nt make room for those that do have it but do nt worship it.The rich young ruler was not a bad person he lived by a good moral code but he made money his idol he put that before God.The word says we shall not have any idols thats a sin and a wicked one.In fact there wasnt any room in his heart for Jesus that is a tragedy.So when we see the message is about Idolatry we all have areas that we chose not to submit to God thats universal everyone of us whether we are rich or poor.I believe we are unaware that we have these idols what are some of them that was revealed to me our partners our children our work our church our family i can sense some of you are getting fidgetty.

When we approach this university community with the message that we are an open church espousing a progressive Christianity, we will be speaking the truth about our ongoing process.

Having no model at all to meet the upkeep on and no known shape to whip themselves into, they would for the first time be open to looking for really new answers — honest answers — that could range anywhere from «We haven't the foggiest notion, but let's get together next Sunday and see if anything's occurred to us in the meantime,» to «We're here to be the church, I suppose — whatever that means,» to «How about for openers we just try to stick with fellowship, breaking bread, and saying prayers?

One of the wonderful things about the Episcopal Church and other mainline traditions is their affirmation of reason and their willingness to see both sides of an argument and be open to ambiguity.

Last year in Ireland, a police file was opened on Bishop Philip Boyce after one of the country's leading secularists, John Colgan, complained about an «offensive» homily in which the bishop stated that the Church is being «attacked from the outside by the arrows of a secular and godless culture.»

Happily I was minister of a church where the doors were and are wide open to a man like that, for about three years later he said to me, «No words can estimate what this has meant — each year clearer insight, deeper assurance, and life more and more worth while.»

The story opened in a swank Protestant church where at the conclusion of the service a poor, unemployed, shabby young man got up and told his story of unemployment to the startled parishioners and ended by saying: «You can't all go out hunting up jobs for people like me, but what I am puzzled about when I see so many Christians living in luxury and singing, «Jesus, I my cross have taken, all to leave, and follow Thee,» is what is meant by following Jesus?

You know, please rest your conscience here as you read I am not an authority AT ALL as youll come to see, My lord has pulled me out of church the holy spirit filled church where I recieved Christ, and told me to visit ALL churches, oh and by the way 6 years ago The Lord asked me to open an out reach food pantry and safe haven for the needy, in the city that we live in, anyway this journey was humbling, God always shows me I am the stinker, that its my flesh that wars against the spirit, So many people are worried about satan, and demons or bad freinds or family or other religions, Yeah it makes you wonder 1st is it the same bible Im reading Jesus said it is finished!

Why do you talk about only what he didn't menage to do, or what was wrong in his pontificate?Yes, I agree there were many things that could have been resolved in better way, but he was only a human and as everybody could make mistakes.To me what is important in his pontificate is that he was a first pope who «opened «the church to people, who travelled a lot, met with people, went to synagogue, did much to abolish communism.Sure, he wasn't ideal, but for me the best pope so far.

Taking the role of an open - minded skeptic, Berger asks probative questions about religion without being bound by tradition, church, scripture, or personal experience.

The Church opens the Year of Faith [1] with a Synod on the New Evangelisation at a time when, in England, there are a number of issues about the adequacy of theology programmes in preparing their students for the task of evangelising.

Church is a place to be honest and open about our lives, but most people are faking it at cChurch is a place to be honest and open about our lives, but most people are faking it at churchchurch.

A man opened fire inside a church in a small South Texas community on Sunday, killing 26 people and wounding about 20 others in what the governor called the deadliest...

It is also one of the fastest - growing Lutheran church bodies in the world; in 2016, they counted about 4 million members, and they are opening a new congregation every week.

all I can think of today is what I saw in yesterday's news, about the former paratrooper turned preacher at an Independent Fundamental Baptist church just outside Ft. Bragg, N.C., that told his congregation they should break their sons» wrists if they catch them doing the «limp wrist», or give him a good punch... and all the kids that have committed suicide because other kids have picked up on messages like this and bullied them till they couldn't stand it anymore... we are the only bible some folks will ever read, and if they get this kind of message, well, who'd want to be with a group of people where you are grudgingly tolerated, if not outright hated, and all this in Jesus» name... it also says that the churches will do just about anything to keep people obedient and unquestioning, so they will continue to give, and so the big donors will continue to give, so that the doors at Monster Megachurch can be kept open, and the lights on... David, this is one of your «less is more» toons here... a minimum of elements that says so much....

«I can confirm,» wrote one correspondent, «as one who went along to one of these Masses, and then went «downstairs» (to the hall underneath the church) for tea afterwards, that the vast majority of the men there were quite open about a) their dissent from Church teaching; b) their disliking of the Pope; c) the fact that they had «boyfriends&rchurch) for tea afterwards, that the vast majority of the men there were quite open about a) their dissent from Church teaching; b) their disliking of the Pope; c) the fact that they had «boyfriends&rChurch teaching; b) their disliking of the Pope; c) the fact that they had «boyfriends».

(CNN)- Mitt Romney is famously quiet about his Mormon faith, but his campaign has said that some of Thursday's speakers at the Republican National Convention will shed light on the candidate's role in the church - and that Romney may open about his faith, too.

Questioned about homosexuality, he stressed that the Church has fought more than any other group in Africa to stop discrimination against homosexual people, and at the same time he clearly stressed that the family is formed from a man and a woman, open to procreation and following the teaching of the Catholic Church.

He adds: «At Rural Ministries, we're not about keeping churches open simply because they've always been there, but rather enabling Christians to ask the mission - shaped questions, such as: «In light of who we are and where we are, what is the good news for this community and how might we express it?

The church needs ministers who are open about their difficulties and weaknesses.

The effectiveness of the formation is evidenced by the fact that after three years some white male students are grateful to the institution for opening their eyes and leading them to the truth about racism and sexism in themselves and the church.

Luther's followers think that everything is about happiness and wealth creation when they open up these houses they call churches.

At what point are you open to being taught by the Catholic Church (or any Church, really) about about an ethical issue or doctrinal issue?

«We wouldn't see them when we go to Westminster to protest; when ten people had to sign [an open letter] to speak about the Church's stand on same sex marriage, to which some of us are today being persecuted, they were nowhere to be found.

It opens up the great debate about the identity of Christ that convulsed the Church in the fourth century.

He supports me in raising them within my very open, liberal church community, and participates in prayer around the dinner table and at bedtime; but that's about it.

«Since it has been entrusted to the Church to reveal the mystery of God, Who is the ultimate goal of man, she opens up to man at the same time the meaning of his own existence, that is, the innermost truth about himself... For by His incarnation the Father's Word assumed, and sanctified through His cross and resurrection, the whole of man, body and soul, and through that totality the whole of nature created by God for man's use» (41).