Sentences with phrase «church is in the world»

As your own «Call to Covenant Community» puts it,»... Christian faith has an inevitable public and political dimension,» and therefore «the place of the church is in the world» even though its gospel is not of the world.

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«The McMass Project is helping churches keep pace in the modern world.»

There were some 267 million Catholics in the world in 1900; today, the world Church counts 1.2 billion members, with a projected growth to 1.6 billion by the middle of the century.

While I respect Rush's right to speak his mind (without people like him, we would be like other totalitarian governments that don't tolerate dissent), I am with the Pope and the church in their efforts to reach out to the world.

To be sure, Lewis spoke to a nation with a legally established church in World War II — era Britain.

In this regard, patriarch Bartholomew and metropolitan John Zizioulas are notable exceptions, who staunchly oppose Orthodox fundamentalism and manifest a greater openness of the church leadership to the world.

Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

Some in the church were with him but not enough to make sure he is free to tell the world.

There is no perfect local church in this world, but that's not the biggest problem.

My elect are not the people, the church in America; but my elect are the people of the world that are called by my name and do my will on earth as it is done in heaven.

Today he's considered «first among equals» in the leadership of the Greek Orthodox church, and is the spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians around the world.

And that camel - owner can bring all his camel - owning friends and they will give their tenth - plus offerings to The Church of the Great Needle and soon enough there will be a new building program to construct a fanstasmagoric «Golden Needle with Multiple Eyes» so that more camels can enter and then more camel - owners will come and soon there will be a vision for a bigger and better «Platinum Needle with Multiple, Rotating, Identity - Protected Eyes» and soon there will be a name change to «The Church of the Sharpest Needles in the Greatest Sewing Machine the World Has Ever Seen» and everyone shall stand amazed etc., etc., etc...; ^)

I see this as part of a growing trend in the western world that is getting fed up with the ignorant, pretentious, number - crunching church buildings that claim to be preaching gospel when they're either preaching a list of do's and don'ts or they're preaching what's in demand, and im not saying all churches are like that but a lot are.

This is all about control with religion and it has to stop.Gay people getting married doesn't have anything to do with straight people getting married.People are so full of hatred and disrespect it isn't funny.I'm glad this has come out now, because it really shows how evil people really are.But these people who are so into GOD, the Bible, Church, and the only way of life they live 4 god, by god are the 1s who prmote going around the world starting WARS, killing innocent women, men, children and families because Jesus guides them in everything they do.That is a crock of B.S. if I ever heard it.They will continus to use GOD and continue their EVIL ways to get whatever they want and CONTROL who ever they can.

For instance, the ecumenical openness of an otherwise profoundly traditional church is of crucial importance, especially in light of conservative and traditionalist circles in the Greek and Slavic worlds.

There is in fact a missionary dimension that drives its adherents to transform the church and the world.

This does not belong to the secular world / media to comment, it belongs to the catholic church in this case to decide what they hold as being truthful / sacred in the service of their Lord and Savior.

The church = Oldest criminal organization in the world; Accepted because people can not accept their own death; Still people are going to be dead when dead; No religion will get you past that fact.

Christ himself is responsible for his death, and the Church will not have any future in this world unless she follows the path of worldly wisdom and power!

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.

The Pope doesn't OWN, it Patriarchs don't own it priests don't own it it is held in trust by the Catholic church for the world to enjoy.

Three priorities presented themselves to Castro: (1) Since the world is experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (his experiencing a resurgence in religion, and the decline of faith in modernity, the churches must resolve theological and philosophical questions: Is the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (hIs the Spirit exclusive, and the Christian faith unique, or is the Spirit (his the Spirit (he?

Again, sadly, the church is trailing far beyond society in equality for women, though we have come a long way from the women as property upheld in the Old Testament and still prevalent in many other parts of the world today.

Why is the Vatican picking on the branch of their Church that is actually doing GOOD in the world?

These enormous accomplishments — and their roots in John Paul's profound faith — should be remembered at this moment, when too many are tempted to despair about the state of the world and not a few are wondering about the condition of the Church.

I, being a lowly «closeted» Christian do see the immoralities of today's mega-monolithic styled churches whose upkeep and maintainence dollars would feed in the 3rd world countries and even in the US of A bookoo people!

Also in circles such as the World Council of Churches, environmentalism was patched on to the quilt of peace and justice, and presented as a seamless garment of progressive commitment.

As many in the Catholic world had been expecting the Church to permit contraception under certain circumstances thanks to many perhaps well - meaning but shortsighted clergy and theologians, the encyclical met with hostility and has been widely ignored and explicitly rejected.

This is the church that perpetrated the dark ages, sided with hitler, tells people in third world countries that if they birth control they will go to hell, etc..

Professor Jenson asks, «How, in a world that entertains no promises» [a postmodern world], «is the Church to speak her eschatological hope with any public plausibility?»

In a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblIn a cultural environment where all authority is suspect and the notion of divine authority is thought to be a psychological hangover from the premodern world, the claim that divine authority is transmitted in an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblin an unbroken chain of apostolic succession through the bishops of the Church in communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incrediblin communion with the bishop of Rome seems literally incredible.

Is it possible that the message of comfort for those devastated by the faltering world economy will be nothing more than trite and meaningless words if not accompanied by a biblical response where we, the church, become the Good News, the economic expression of God in flesh?

One of the chief themes of the narrative theology that came to prominence in the Anglo - American world in the late 1980s and early 1990s was the centrality of communal experience to the life of Christ's Church.

As is true anywhere in the world, the government is concerned with matters of licensing and training and therefore regulating what the Church can or can not do in its social programs.

It doesn't matter if it's a church, a library or a doctor's office - he's finding happiness in this world.

But, unlike this cartoon, the church is never fined for going too slow or taking too long dealing with abuses, inequalities and injustices within it's own ranks or in the world.

Our church is the biggest in the WORLD!»

if your so called god will forgive murders and child molesters as long as they go to confession and say 10 worthless and meaningless prayers, don!t you think god would forgive a person the tales birth control, if there really was a god, which there is not, I do not believe in god or wasting time going to church to try to get myself into the dream world heaven, but if I am wrong I am going to hell because that's where all my friends are going and I don, t want to hang out for eternity with you morons in heaven.

This is no issue to take lightly, as we are called by Christ to set the «world afire» in his name, and if you are spouting off AGAINST what the Church has said is Truth, you are greatly blaspheming.

On the other hand, the islamic world lacks a single voice to answer with a single and credible voice to the concerns of the secular american society (which is very concerned about the lack of the concept of separation between church and state in large part of the islamic world).

Israel and the Church are not characters in a larger story called «world,» but rather «world» is a character in God's story as known through the story that Israel is the Church.

As for the argument that we should look to our churches... the BILLIONS spent by organized religion to build exorbitant places of worship (Jesus preached in open fields and I'm confident that God hears MY prayers in the privacy of my home) and the building of health clinics in third world countries would help a lot — but they are not inclined to help those in need HERE!

The Catholic church is loosing member in the modern society because of its failure to understand the real world.

Contextualising his comments, Jenkins explained how vital churches on the ground are in bringing lasting solutions to humanitarian crises around the world.

It is truly ironic that a CHURCH would ban its NUNS for doing something in the world that actually helps people.

If you want to find a church that's alive, go look in places where the world is suffering and struggling.

In other words, the major roadblocks to progress in Lutheran - Orthodox discussions are actually the hallmarks of liberal Protestantism — hallmarks of the theological direction that many churches of the Lutheran World Federation have takeIn other words, the major roadblocks to progress in Lutheran - Orthodox discussions are actually the hallmarks of liberal Protestantism — hallmarks of the theological direction that many churches of the Lutheran World Federation have takein Lutheran - Orthodox discussions are actually the hallmarks of liberal Protestantism — hallmarks of the theological direction that many churches of the Lutheran World Federation have taken.

John Paul II unleashed tremendous evangelical energies in the world Church — energies that embody Pope Francis» call that Catholics be a «Church in permanent mission.»

oh, FYI, you won't save yourself just because you go to church and there's no one in this world who's perfectly «good».

In fact, so discredited has the overpopulation science become that this year Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly could publish Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population and garner a starred review in Publishers Weekly — all in service of what is probably the single best demolition of the population arguments that some hoped would undermine church teachinIn fact, so discredited has the overpopulation science become that this year Columbia University historian Matthew Connelly could publish Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population and garner a starred review in Publishers Weekly — all in service of what is probably the single best demolition of the population arguments that some hoped would undermine church teachinin Publishers Weekly — all in service of what is probably the single best demolition of the population arguments that some hoped would undermine church teachinin service of what is probably the single best demolition of the population arguments that some hoped would undermine church teaching.