Sentences with phrase «as missionaries like»

Not exact matches

When missionaries do sell their business they often seek to find a buyer like Warren Buffett who will not treat the business as an opportunity to create the equivalent of a strip mine.

I am also a life long Mormon, having served as a missionary just like many, many other LDS men and women.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

I guess I just feel like many American Christians are succumbing to the material, consumer - driven ways of the society around us and are forgetting the beauty of simplicity — to use the money that we might have spent on the latest CD or DVD from a Christian artist and give it to the food bank, use it to buy supper for the person you see out on the street or as a monthly payment to sponsor a missionary.

The missionary Henry Martyn spoke of a visit to a Hindu temple as like being in the vicinity of hell.

like Romney tried to do to people as a Mormon missionary.

Missionary Pentecostalism includes the efforts of U.S. denominations like the Assemblies of God, as well as missions from Sweden and other European countries.

He sends us His Son as the ultimate picture of a missionary: encroaching foreign territory, becoming like us, and making the way for us back to the Father.

Like Georg Christoph Biller, Leipzig's current Thomaskantor and Bach's sixteenth successor in that position, Suzuki sees himself as a missionary.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»

But as those 144,000 powerful Jewish missionaries travel about the earth, and as they face persecution, famine, danger, nakedness and sword, it will be just like the times of World War II, when people had to choose whether they would help the Jewish people or turn their back upon them.

Like Wesley, such men as Phineas Bresee, the dominant figure of the Church of the Nazarene, and A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, left socially elite churches to minister among the poor of the inner city slums.

But the proponents of the term missional see it as a word set apart from other cousin - words, like missionary, mission, and missio dei.

Dubose wanted to focus on the church as «missionary» but specifically chose not to use that language since books like The Missionary Nature of the Church defined the term in ways he found prmissionary» but specifically chose not to use that language since books like The Missionary Nature of the Church defined the term in ways he found prMissionary Nature of the Church defined the term in ways he found problematic.

Like many young Mormon athletes before him, Jabari Parker will be encouraged to serve as a missionary — but not compelled

Claims like, «Africa is a continent of beggars «and related arguments that Africa is prone to corruption imply that there is a specifically «African cultural root» to these complex socio - political processes (recall the missionaries statement: TIA, This is Africa, as if that says it all).

But the new missionaries, like Brown and McDonald, seem as holy and determined as their habited predecessors.

Missionary position was, as far as she could tell, like vanilla ice cream: purported to be boring and chosen only by passionless, unimaginative, exhausted people but really the best one.

Yes she entertained dreams of being a missionary, but those dreams are built on self - aggrandizing fantasies: images of her being carried on a «magnificent schooner with sails like angel wings» (a marked contrast to the slave ship that transported Ajarry to her fate); her as a courageous and heroic savior received by grateful and adoring natives «lifting her to the sky, praising her name: Ethel, Ethel» (I thought missionaries served to praise God, not Saint Ethel).

What if the steady stream of AGW trolls that come to websites like this one think of themselves as missionaries that have a duty to enlighten the unwashed?