Sentences with phrase «church minds its business»

The Church minds its business and it gets attacked by whiners.

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Never mind that the same policies already exist within state laws including Romney's and Gingrich's home states.The policy doesn't apply to churches, but rather then BUSINESSES operated by the churches.

Quite frankly, it would be nice if the church people minded their own business after first recognizing where their business ends and others» begins.

What these men have in mind was expressed by one of them who said in effect: The seminary prepared me for preaching and taught me the difference between preaching and public speaking; it helped me to become a pastoral counselor and not simply a counselor; it prepared me for the work of Christian education; but it gave me no preparation to administer a church as Church; what I learned about church administration was a nontheological smattering of successful business pracchurch as Church; what I learned about church administration was a nontheological smattering of successful business pracChurch; what I learned about church administration was a nontheological smattering of successful business pracchurch administration was a nontheological smattering of successful business practices.

On the one hand, the enterprise of copying, correcting, translating, and publishing texts — the business of scholarship; on the other, the enterprise of delivering to the Church an intact Old Testament and a New Testament that conforms to the mind of Christ: this involves setting the boundaries of the canon by choosing and rejecting among rival testimonies, selecting the best text of each canonical witness, suppressing additions and interpolations, suppressing mistranslations, and so forth.

How to get the church back on track is frankly none of our business, when we know full well that unless our hearts are humbled and our minds radically changed, we will usurp God again in a few generations.

His mind was still agonising over the matter of the exercise of authority, and in particular the matter of the «Ban» on the sacraments so often exercised by Church authorities when they wanted an overdue debt paying — bans «flying about like bats», as he had said in March — and in general the whole business of excommunication.

I was in town today minding my own business when I ran into someone who went to my church some time ago.

Living things seem messy and inefficient to many business minded believers who often wind up as leaders in church.