How about church attendance?
How about church splits and angry board meetings?
I just came up with an idea:
How about all churches commit to a one year moratorium on vision - casting, goal - setting, and mission statements?
How about church / synagogue / mosque coffee hour?
Not exact matches
I don't spend time in my study figuring out
how to save the world,
how to grow the
church,
how to get more money out of people's pockets,
how to promote this
church's ministry,
how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music,
how to make myself more awesome before my people,
how to get more people to hear
about and come to our
church.
One of the corporate officers gave a testimony, which included a story
about how generous he had been to his
church.
He's on one side of a long - standing debate in the
church about how to build a decent society.
How about the government allows marriages for everyone and those marriages are performed always by JP's first and a
church second and only when everyone agrees.
How about we get some LARGER FONT LARGER GRAPHICS front - paged stories on Romney being a Bishop in the Mormon
church who had some pretty abhorrent policies before 1980, while Romney was a member, including the exclusion of black men from the priesthood up until Mormons were pressured to remove that provision in 1978.
How does the
church feel
about IVF that results in the termination of many un-implanted embryos but also gives infertile couples a chance at having a child?
The Mormon
church was not the only place to not allow blacks Give your head a shake All Americans were a part of racial discrimination not just
churches Making this
about religion instead of
how Obama Failed is just stupid.
Use this guide in your small group, house
church or class to create discussion and convey biblical truth
about how we should live now in light of the future reality.
And questions being asked
about how to attract men to
church.
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.
Wail away all you like,
about the const - itution and
how it is being mis - read, the true meaning of the separation of / from
church and state, but it all does not matter — the law as currently interpreted and enforced says events of this nature are not legal!
to know
how fellow [past tense] churchy people think
about me, or judge me, to know im not loved when i go home into my
church and — fucking hell, my family!
The striking similarities to the
Church and the «cult but not a cult» portrayed in the show conveys to us an idea
about how people outside of the
Church might actually perceive the
Church.
It's
about the question of
how the
Church will participate in that conversation.
... I'm still amazed at
how people could tell me that the cruel treatment I received from
church leaders & members was somehow God - inspired and ordained, and was done for my own good (God told people to spread lies
about me for my own good?
We also talk with Matthew Soerens, the US Director of
Church Mobilization for World Relief and the co-author of «Seeking Refuge: On the Shores of the Global Refugee Crisis,»
about how you can help some of the world's most vulnerable communities.
A victim told the court: «To have trusted institutions such as the
church and the legal system allow lawyers to try and discredit me - to seed doubt of my character into the jury
about how trustworthy I was - has stayed with me and led to a deep rooted mistrust of myself.
«I wouldn't agree with everything I saw [in the Catholic
church] theologically, but God broadened my horizons
about the cultures and
how they related to God,» he said.
How about children ra - ped and so - d - omized by the catholic
church's hierarchy and the worse crimes of cover ups?
Me personally would like to believe so and I do.If there is not god life is pretty pathetic if your think deeply
about it.Theres always going to be someone who says no this is
how something is or this happened exactly like this I know for sure (ha ok)... On another note instead of acting like you really do know everything maybe broaden your horizon and try
church or read the bible and give God a chance.
I talk
about the issue of spiritual abuse and
how people recover from this devastation in their local
church.
Try to figure out
how the
church calendar is constructed and think
about how the date Easter is celebrated is determined.
Happily, tax - exempt organizations under section 501 (c)(3) of the tax code» whether they be
churches or humane societies» are free to be as public as they want to be
about whatever concerns them, no matter
how controversial or «political» the subject.
They might have personal reservations
about the person's sense of appropriate dress or wonder
how anyone could live without the occasional burger, but it is not the
church's business to address either matter.
The Catholic
Church does a great deal of work to help the poor and needy and comparing them to rednecks shows just
how little you know
about the
Church's work.
poor this rich that
church here politics there why argue
about church an politics its the same funny
how people loose there jobs but
churches an politicians pockets keep getting bigger but nobodys crying
about bet that new guchi shirt impressed the preachers wife you wore on sunday but you argue for the poor, ol lutz says 25 k die a day well then why worry
about charitys they collect 10,25 % just like
churches an line thier pockets, so why argeu you stoopid sheep
I sat in the pew, thinking
about how bored people sometimes get in
church.
The reason why I (and potentially many other non-believers) react with cynicism and hostility to stories like this is that they demonstrate
how very different the actions of the
church are from the claims it makes
about itself: infallibility, benevolence, selflessness, and godliness.
I'd love to hear more from you
about this as just now I'm wrestling with the whole issue of
how to bridge the gap for our Christian prisoners from «
church» in jail to
church on release.
People have the right to leave
church and organized religion, they have a right to question an institution that will do anything to save face even if it means letting children be harmed (and trust me, there are Priests that have issues with girls - my mom when to an all girls» Catholic school in the 60s and talks
about how many of the priests used to «hang out» with the young girls out and girls have been abused),
churches that are not practicing social justice.
There is alot of debate out there
about Christians, but just forget that debate, and take it from me, a person who says prayers, goes to
church, has trouble destroying ants on the doorstep... this is
how I would describe my faith... its a country song, but give it a chance, its a good song.
And btw: are you not always the one whining
about how separation of
church and state has destroyed the country?
Without Empire «the
church» may very well not exist anymore and we would all be talking
about how the Mystery Cult is opposed to empire.
Not one word
about the man, what he loved to do,
how he lived his life, nothing... just promotion of the catholic
church and the lead priest prancing around in his robes with a microphone like a freakin rock star.
I won't give you the full quote but it talked
about how church as part of active discipleship can make strangers seem less threatening, but
how the pull of human nature keeps trying to take us away from that (ie strangers become more threatening).
However, you make a good point â $ «
about attending
church to see
how this really is 2008.
She says that
churches should BEND towards what people today want in order to allow their sin, to allow their desire to live as we ought not, and to make our selfish hearts even harder, to not realize sacrificing self is not
about the
church sacrificing the Message, but for people to turn to their own hearts and
how hard they have become.
This week, the charity
Church Response For Refugees is holding a roadshow across the country to enable
churches to find out more
about how they can sign up.
As to the news
about the
Church of England — given the amount of corruption seen throughout Christendom, and indeed among many professors of Christ, it does make one wonder
how soon the Rapture could actually be.
He told Premier: «It might be just talking
about an issue - and that's an important thing - or it might be something more tangible, like getting behind a clause and talking... [
about]
how their
church might be able to help.»
So
how does being the pastor of Mars Hill one of the «fastest growing
churches in America» sit with this «it's really
about what works for me and my friends» approach?
Hey LMB123, I'll make you a deal: I won't claim to know much
about Mormonism and you don't assume to know anything
about how the Protestant
churches operate.
I have written similar ideas before
about how the church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Minist
how the
church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g., How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Min
church spends money it receives from tithing, and what could be done with this money instead (e.g.,
How the Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Minist
How the
Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Min
Church Can Solve the World Water Crisis, Liquidating our Property, and Money, Missions, and Ministry.
Second,
church bullies almost always like feeling important and knowledgeable, be it
about how the
church should be run, what God and the Bible say, and
how other people should think, live and vote.
David Dunham writes a blog for RELEVANT
about how the
Church confuses maturity with masculinity and why that has damaged church me
Church confuses maturity with masculinity and why that has damaged
church me
church members.
Erika Morrison writes for RELEVANT
about how she has found community and Christ outside of a conventional
church.