Sentences with phrase «facing disillusionment»

Facing disillusionment isn't just about your circumstances.

Theology should face the disillusionments of community squarely, while continually reminding us that God calls us to live life together.

Not exact matches

Choosing to do the hard work of loving members of our community in the face of disappointment and disillusionment strengthens us to do the same with our spouse.

Your disillusionment with the Church may seem like a petty wound to nurse right now, with Latino children getting taunted by their classmates, Muslim communities facing religious persecution, and black families grappling with a world in which white nationalism has been validated and emboldened, but grief is grief.

So that's why when I hear about people wanting to leave the church because of politics or exhaustion, burn out, or disillusionment, I can sympathize but I certainly don't believe we should condemn every church out there and adopt this self - centered «woe is me, churches are so evil, pastors are two - faced and their motives are questionable, and Christians are so awful» mentality and pull ourselves AWAY from the work of God.

Someday he may of course face partial disillusionment in his present work.

It maybe given to us, to all Elijahs, to return from the cave with fear and terror, if not allayed, at least in control; with new resources given to face unanswerable questions with courage and endurance; with disillusionment transformed to fresh determination; with societal contempt converted again to sorrow, compassion, and resolution; and with despair turning back once more to prophetic passion.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

«â $ œOnly that fellowship which faces such disillusionment with all its unhappy and ugly aspects, begins to be what it should be in Godâ $ ™ s sight».

Bonhoeffer continues: «Only that fellowship which faces such disillusionment with all its unhappy and ugly aspects, begins to be what it should be in God's sight, begins to grasp in faith the promise that is given to it.

Historically, failed prophecies tend to result in disillusionment, with members deserting the group, or, more typically, a faith - saving (and face - saving) statement to the effect that while divine revelation remains infallible, human calculation is not.

ALBANY, N.Y. — It was approaching 11 on Saturday night, and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo still hadn't secured the nomination of the Working Families Party, a goal he had pursued for weeks in the face of disillusionment among party leaders with his record.

Disillusionment with what was once called «the Project» is almost total in the face of grinding austerity, a double - dip recession that has already lasted 18 months and a jobless rate of 12.2 % and rising.

The devolved government faces enormous challenges — Brexit, widespread disillusionment with the parties on offer and a power - sharing structure that arguably inhibits progress.

Now, Frank tells his story in his own words: from his Italian - American roots in Brooklyn to his disillusionment with the NYPD to his riveting account of a dramatic drug bust — and possible set - up — that ended with him being shot in the face.