Sentences with phrase «church than they in fact»

But they are leading lives of such spiritual incoherence that their own integrity should compel them to seek reconciliation through the sacrament of penance, and to do so before affirming a fuller communion with the Church than they in fact enjoy by receiving Holy Communion during Mass..

Not exact matches

In fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etcIn fact, most American Catholics disagree with some of the Vatican doctrines (birth control, for example); there are Baptist Churches that don't treat women as less than men in God's eye, etcin God's eye, etc..

I would bet — big money — that the fraction of FUBARLiberals who exhibit these characteristics is in fact larger than within the Roman Catholic Church....

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints come from many nationalities, cultures, and backgrounds check this link out for yourself: http://mormon.org/me/3QV2 In fact, there are more members outside of the United States than inside!

In fact, since Twitter itself has seen the dawn of direct communication between celebrities and fans, we've moved to an era where we desire a personal relationship with our heroes, rather than being satisfied as part of their broad church of followers.

Why isn't the Catholic Church taking the lead on helping the poor rather than bemoaning the fact that some in Congress have gotten the message that we have no money left to help anyone?

Aren't most «Histories of the Primitive Church» a kind of paper - chase, in which a lack of genuine historical controls leads to ever more elaborate and ever less plausible «reconstructions» based less on facts than on the demands of developmental models?

A third, a physician in New York City, praised the Catholic tradition for its emphasis on human dignity and social justice, but added: «I am troubled by the fact that I find greater acceptance of myself as a whole person in my professional community as a physician, than I do in the official hierarchy of the church of my family, my childhood, and my life.»

Be humble, thinking of others as better than ourselves, as Paul wrote to the Philippian Church in ch 2 v 3, Christ himself did not seek equality with God, in fact He took the humble position.

It matters not whether we be conservative or liberal, traditionalist or modernist; in whatever category we may be placed, or place ourselves, the fact remains that insofar as we are Christian ministers, ordained by Christ in his Church to be his ministering agents, our preaching can be nothing other than the proclamation of God's Word for the wholeness of men.

When, two centuries ago, your Church began to feel the particular power of your heart, it might have seemed that what was captivating men's souls was the fact of their finding in you an element even more determinate, more circumscribed, than your humanity as a whole.

The teaching that men are to be the «spiritual leaders» of their homes is found nowhere in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»in Scripture, and yet I — along with far too many young evangelical women — spent hours upon hours fretting over this in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»in college, worrying I'd never find a guy who was more knowledgeable about the Bible than I, who was always more emotionally connected to God than I, who was better at leading in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»in the church than I, and who consistently exhibited more faithfulness and wisdom than I. (In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»In fact, under this paradigm, I came to see many of my gifts as liabilities, impediments to settling down with a good «spiritual leader»!)

But Richard A. Shenk points out in his new book, The Virgin Birth of Christ: The Rich Meaning of a Biblical Truth, that in Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it.

In fact, the capacity of a contemporary congregation to sustain any unified, sharply defined world view has been more frequently questioned than confirmed in recent studies of church lifIn fact, the capacity of a contemporary congregation to sustain any unified, sharply defined world view has been more frequently questioned than confirmed in recent studies of church lifin recent studies of church life.

Concrete signs of the success of the Pembury project are the explosion of young families that have joined the congregation in the last four years and the fact that no fewer than five former Anglican clergymen have presented themselves at St Anselm's for reception into the Catholic Church, on their way to becoming Catholic priests.

Just goes to show how much of Church taboos are in fact cultural rather than «scriptural» in nature.

In contrast to the message that the newspaper draws from the figures, it has been argued in some quarters that in fact more people attend church than did twenty years ago, but that they attend less regularlIn contrast to the message that the newspaper draws from the figures, it has been argued in some quarters that in fact more people attend church than did twenty years ago, but that they attend less regularlin some quarters that in fact more people attend church than did twenty years ago, but that they attend less regularlin fact more people attend church than did twenty years ago, but that they attend less regularly.

I believe that most of those who have converted from Christianity to this form of Buddhism are in fact living in ways more appropriate to discipleship to Jesus than they were when they belonged to Christian churches.

It isn't found in any that date back later than the 8th century in fact and is not referenced by any of the early church writers before the 13th century.

In small congregations which pay all benefits, which meet all salary guidelines, and which are not exploitative, the fact remains that there is more openness to the leadership of women than is found in large churcheIn small congregations which pay all benefits, which meet all salary guidelines, and which are not exploitative, the fact remains that there is more openness to the leadership of women than is found in large churchein large churches.

To this fact one must add that rather than making an «option for the poor,» many members of the former middle class — the mainstay of many non-Pentecostal Protestant churches in Latin America — have found that impoverishment has made an option for them.

Despite the fact that even today many in the Confessional Church will not see and admit it, there could have been no other outcome than that this truth of the freedom of the church, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decChurch will not see and admit it, there could have been no other outcome than that this truth of the freedom of the church, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decchurch, despite the claims of National Socialism, should come to signify not only a «religious» decision, not only a decision of church policy, but also and ipso facto a political decchurch policy, but also and ipso facto a political decision.

But we never got labor organizations to contribute any more than the churches; and indeed, in this financial respect, they may in fact be quite similar.

In 1914 the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed, however, resting its judgment heavily on the fact that the church had never validated its patronage by any significant financial subsidy (university lawyers pointed out that the church had expended more on the lawsuit than it had contributed to the university before the controversy had arisen) and that during the first three decades of Vanderbilt's existence they had never asserted their supervisory powers.

In fact, a vaguely conscious English person of 2016 probably associates the Established Church much more with sex than with God.

Materialism used to be a theory; in this integration with the West, it is a fact... Before and during 1989 there was a genuine spirit, a true reform light, and our church was filled by no other means than word of mouth... But today, even if we put out 1,000 posters, we would not get so many.

Of course the very fact that the earliest Church could on occasion go on saying it in Jesus» way makes it difficult to be certain that any given saying originated with Jesus rather than in this earliest phase of the Church.

Especially sticky is the fact that over the last six months I've been working to reform the way that our church interacts with folks in the neighbourhood (or at least the intentionality and sharing of that interaction) to focus more on love rather than proselytizing, so I feel like to abandon now would leave even more than the usual mess behind...

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

In Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it.

In fact, American young people are more likely to have no church preference than they are to prefer Mormonism, Judaism or Islam.

A common response to social crises like the marijuana incident is to look more to what the local church should be than to whatever in fact it is.

Furthermore, that this is the product of his own thought, stated at least approximately in his words rather than in the diction of the early church, is borne out by the fact that we find the term used much less frequently in the letters and in Acts than in the Gospels.

In fact, the religious breed in greater numbers than those of us who have a life outside of church, so it is possible that religion will be even more dominant in 100 yeaIn fact, the religious breed in greater numbers than those of us who have a life outside of church, so it is possible that religion will be even more dominant in 100 yeain greater numbers than those of us who have a life outside of church, so it is possible that religion will be even more dominant in 100 yeain 100 years

In fact, some Indian experts think Western or traditional churches trying to impose their cultural form of Christianity could disrupt church growth even more than Hindutva extremism.

In fact, it may be that many of those who do not attend church might be more active in the church than those who do attenIn fact, it may be that many of those who do not attend church might be more active in the church than those who do attenin the church than those who do attend.

In fact, many of them were worse off than churches today.

A more shocking fact regarding institutional church finances is that fraud in the church costs more each year than what is given to missions.

The Gospels, of course, represent Jesus as being fully aware of his messiahship, but the fact that this awareness is more conspicuous in the later than in the earlier Gospels and, particularly, that in Mark the messiahship is a secret which at first no one and later only a few shared — this fact strongly suggests that the tradition that Jesus was conscious of being the Messiah developed in the church in response to its own faith in his messiahship, and does not truly represent Jesus» actual conception of himself.

Yet one more conviction links the one thousand columns, and in fact dates back to the earlier series of Catholic press columns I wrote from 1979 until 1986: the conviction that the Catholic Church in the United States, for all its difficulties, is more likely to be the «Church in the modern world» envisioned by the Second Vatican Council than any other local Church.

Much of this difference, though, can be attributed to the fact that conservatives are on the whole more active in their churches than liberals.

In fact, I think this type of modeling of Christ's love does much more good than most institutional churches combined.

What often happens in churches and groups that place a heavy emphasis on biblical literacy is that the goal in the Christian life seems to be little more than the accumulation of Bible facts and theological trivia.

This seems in fact to be the gist of his confession in A Sort of Life, where Greene contrasts his state of resolve at the time of his conversion with his condition more than 20 years later, at a point (which Sherry suggests remains characteristic of the present) when «continual failure or the circumstances of our private life finally make it impossible to make any promises at all and many of us abandon Confession and Communion to join the Foreign Legion of the Church and fight for a city of which we are no longer full citizens.»

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

I wanted to weigh in with the fact that I am paid by my church (basically just manse expenses) far less than I put in monetarily.

In fact, I was raised in a church where God's kindness was stressed more than anything elsIn fact, I was raised in a church where God's kindness was stressed more than anything elsin a church where God's kindness was stressed more than anything else.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.

In fact, as a result of their study of both theology and church music, many church musicians are finding themselves better educated and prepared in these subjects than their pastorIn fact, as a result of their study of both theology and church music, many church musicians are finding themselves better educated and prepared in these subjects than their pastorin these subjects than their pastors.

The vote was almost evenly split among Protestants in non-mainline churches, which Barna says is a result skewed by the fact that more than 90 percent of blacks voted for Gore.