Sentences with phrase «freeing the church from»

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Again, the Pope's intention is to free the Church from an over-dependence upon doctrine in order to find a pastoral approach that will bring the Church closer to people.

The accession of Mikhail Gorbachev 16 years ago freed the church from coercion.

In the effort to free the Church from local control which he believed made it subservient to secular influences he augmented the power of the bishops over the parish priests.

The struggle of earlier centuries to free the Church from domination by lay princes was increasingly resolved by the power of each King to appoint the bishops in his realm and to forbid any Papal decree from being published within his borders without his consent.

Not exact matches

Feel free to sigh — it is a drab answer from a writer who reaches to link problems with the financial system, the Catholic church, the U.S. Congress and major league baseball with one soaring theory.

He also dismissed the complaints of those who claim that he wants to create a state church, but at the same time asserted that Ukraine needs an independent church, free from Moscow and Russian attempts to dominate Ukraine.

The USA is a place that is free from any kind of religious classification and official religious sponsorship, primarily because the founding fathers didn't want the church to have control on par with that of the church in England.

I am free now from the bondage of mans church and all the controling rules it imposes, free to create and just be which was my original intention when I chose to come forth into this time / space reality.

Yet, thinkers from Edmund Burke to Russell Kirk have shown the deeply anti-conservative bases of the social contract theory of Lockean (and Hobbesian) origin, one that is premised upon a conception of human beings as naturally «free and independent,» as autonomous individuals who are thought to exist by nature detached from a web of relationships that include family, community, Church, region, and so on.

we can have it all if we choose, sadly folks like you and me will never be free from «believers» chanting our damnation, the likes of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church and other religious fanatics.

Without the old confidence in the faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, the room itself fades away and slips from existence — leaving only the window: a strange, free - floating pane of glass, hanging somehow in mid-air.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Well he can expect to be compleatly immune from any questions about church child molestation, he will fade into the background free of responsibility and prosecution from such matters... well done catholics, i am sure jesus would be very proud

This nation, the U.S.A. was born from religious folk in Europe wanting to be freed from the over taxations of both the Churches and their Governments.

Bob Wilson from the Free Churches group told Premier's News Hour: «There's loads of factors... There are justice factors for example: the policing, the courts, prisons, probation.

Obama's accommodation proposes that Church authorities who run hospitals, schools, and other facilities will be entitled to tell their employees that the health care insurance provided by the Church does not cover contraceptives, the «morning after pill,» or sterilization, but that the health insurance company that covers the Catholic institution will be free to contact the employees of that institution and inform them that they are entitled to «free» coverage of these things from the insurance company in question.

For those of you offended by the church and its members» actions, feel free to go to the website «All Dead Mormons Are Gay» where you can convert any dead Mormon (except those that died in the Holocaust) from straight to gay for eternity.

This articles is excerpted from The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity, published this month by Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc..

Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy by Robert A. Sirico Regnery, 256 pages, $ 27.95 The Catholic Church, at its best, has preserved a rare freedom from political fashion.

More recently, theologians and church leaders from denominations that have historic ties with churches in the north have encouraged African Christian expressions that are free of northern acculturation, are faithful to the gospel and draw upon traditional African

To allow people to fulfill their purpose, we must set them free from the man - made requirement of «attending church.»

But there can be specific Church forms of homophobia too: pressurising us to change our sexual orientation (although people who want to seek change in their orientation should be free to do so, and some find that their sexuality does change); saying that gay people will go to hell; not permitting us to work with youth or children (assuming gay people are more likely to be predatory or paedophiles); and holding us back from ministry roles.

Small group Christians free yourselves from the burden (and some instances tyranny) of the institutional churches and go forth into the world and do what God always intended for us to do........

if we did not give the church would not exist it needs money to keep going a question should ministers get paid or preach the gospel free from money

... switch from using a mac to using a pc and expect the same thing... or go back to religion and get the same shunning from the atheists that you got from whatever church that was that you blindly followed... now you get to be the poster child for atheists the same way a repentant drugged up rock star gets to be the poster child for church... except from the atheists» arrogant point of view, you went from uneducated, ignorant, bigoted, intolerant and stupid to being sophisticated, intellectual, open minded and free thinking... in their opinion you were formerly a stupid a s s...

The concept of once saved always saved takes a bit to get your head around but Gods grace is greater than our sin and greater than our good works it just takes faith in Jesus Christ to recieve Gods grace.In saying that to continue to sin as a christian is like playing with fire you will be burnt.Paul talks of the sexual immorality in corinthian church of the son and father that were sleeping with the same wife they were excommunicated from the church the members were not allowed to even eat with them until they repented.There are consequences for our actions.The other side to this is that if you continue to sin as a christian you are not walking by faith but walking by the flesh and are really backsliding.In the backslidden state you also become powerless and open to attack by satan as long as we walk in the flesh he can influence us to get worse not better.If we are walking in Christ satan may still try to tempt us but we are empowered by the holy spirit and overcome him and our faith increases.Both are saved by grace but one is powerless because of sin versus saved but an overcomer having been set free from sin i think this is what Paul was trying to explain.It is better to be an overcomer than overcome by sin.brentnz

Living in low - income housing, teaching free literacy classes to refugees, setting up basketball camps for bored inner - city kids: all of it had a few costs for me personally, sure, but the holy buzz of pats on the back from friends and church people, and the feeling that I was the only person really getting what Jesus was saying — this more than made up for doing without.

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I clearly stated that I knew it was David's right to moderate how he wanted, and I noted that I believe it is fair to talk about silencing in church systems, but I asked him to consider the damage and misinformation that a free - for - all like this can have when it takes a huge left turn into picking apart people's personal darkness from a far.

She is thus «predestined» to be free from the fall - out of original sin, and enabled to give herself entirely to the necessary foundation of the Church.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

The law forbids Church of England and Church in Wales churches from conducting same - sex weddings, but other denominations are free to do so if they wish.

Father Neuhaus» argument is to read these reprobation texts as «suggesting a destiny of separation from God,» while reading other texts (Colossians 1:19 «20, 1 Corinthians 15:20 «28, Romans 5:18, 11:33 «36) as «suggesting the redemption of the entire cosmos,» leaving us free to choose between these mutually exclusive alternatives, since the Church in her wisdom has not pronounced on the matter.

From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and chaFrom the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and chafrom Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.

Following the Imperial policy of extrapolating the influence of the state over the Church, theologians began to accept more and more government control in ecclesiastical affairs; even priest seminaries were no longer a space free from government intrusion.

Some of the larger Protestant denominations, such as the Southern Baptists, Seventh - Day Adventists, and Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod were of sufficient stature to be able to gain free sustaining - time directly from local stations and they used this to supplement the smaller amount of time they received from the networks.

Often those most anxious to free the Negro from slavery were more reluctant to accept them as fully free members within the Church.

To allow people to fulfill their purpose, we must set them free from the manmade requirement of «attending church.»

Glad to see people are free from the false teachings of the Catholic Church.

Even when Packer walked away from the Diocese of New Westminster in 2002 at his bishop's behest (over disagreements relating to the blessing of same - sex unions), he did not attempt to embody an Anglican «ideal» in a free - church or nondenominational context (much to the disappointment of some of his Reformed friends).

By stepping away from public education it also freed me from needing a church that imparts teachings to my children... I don't need a church for that yet I can see why people would want or need that if they think that only an institution such as a church can do that.

For the ministry of the Church is from the very beginning a service of the free charisma, of the discernment of spirits, a service of the unity and loving community of the many charisms which the one autonomous Spirit of God gives to his Church.

The man who is freed from the supposition that church attendance is a way of gaining merit and of justifying himself will ordinarily support the institution which bears that message.

CNN: Church reverses ban on interracial marriage Two weeks ago, Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County, Kentucky, voted 9 - 6 to ban couples in interracial marriages from attending or participating in the cChurch reverses ban on interracial marriage Two weeks ago, Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church in Pike County, Kentucky, voted 9 - 6 to ban couples in interracial marriages from attending or participating in the cChurch in Pike County, Kentucky, voted 9 - 6 to ban couples in interracial marriages from attending or participating in the churchchurch.

The Church was established in part to free us from these sorts of false constructs of man, as Blessed John Paul II proclaims in his encyclical Veritatis Splendor:

Faith has a life and dynamic of its own, free and apart from Christianity and the church.

Nothing prevented «free» churches from being organized where there were already established churches.

Mike Keffer writes about the pain of being condemned as a heretic by the leaders of his church, and how this experience freed him from religion so he could better follow Jesus.

I would suggest that only when you are free from the blinding authority of the bible and the church will any clarity come as to what «god» means.