Sentences with phrase «if placed in a church»

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It made me wonder if we are trying so hard to be different, to be unique, that we've placed ourselves firmly in the center of all discussions of church and worship.

«They're very often wonderful places where people's dignity is protected and if you will invest those and churches get involved in those we'll see even higher levels of end of life palliative care there.

The only reason I suggest it is because you can witness the demonstration of the power of God in the preached word and it is a very good place to be if you are seeking your own experience, but you don't have to be in church to be saved.

If you really have to hide your light in order to remain at a church, you probably don't belong there in the first place.

If you want to find a church that's alive, go look in places where the world is suffering and struggling.

But if you are able to network with a few committed artists in your group, you may be surprised to see how God can use your church as a place of innovative art.

If we possess a religious faith, we probably recall that it originated in some particular person or persons, in a particular church or place.

So tell me John, if a group meets in different homes, they don't rent or own a building, the pastor actually has a J O B, and does not live off of the congregation (community), and no one «tithes» but gives gifts individually to the poor, the fire dept, the food bank, individually, not pooling their money together in one place, why would any church community want or need a budget?

Your holiest look down upon the sinners, your prayers are scripted, your music is pre-planned out, you adhere to a schedule and you meet at specific times on a specific day as if to say... «if we arrive at church at 9:30 Sunday morning, God will meet us in this place.»

In addition to my earlier comment I will say that I will be surprised if any of the mega church pastors have any comment on the Jonestown massacre that took place on November 18, 1978.

If you can't find it in a «church», you may find it in the neighborhood, at work or some other place.

However, how does corporate worship (which is encouraged in Hebrews 10:19 - 25 among other places) and meeting and teaching take place if not in «the church»?

Albeit he says in another place that if we don't live in Christ and if we continue in sin then we should be put out of the church and we will be cut off of the tree of life.

«If enforced, the law will place Alabama church members in the untenable position of verifying individuals» immigration documentation before being able to follow God's word to «love thy neighbor as thyself,»» the lawsuit states.

If modern Christians had placed their s + a + ue in front of a Church or non-government building, they would have not received anywhere near the cr!

For years, people knew if they spoke out against Driscoll, the Acts29 Network would work into overdrive to ensure they were persona non grata at any church or conference in this network — same dynamic was in place with the EV network.

If one holds that during the course of human history a process of development and refinement in the Church's understanding of Christ has taken place, this does not mean that one is rushing headlong into a position of historical relativism that is ultimately corrosive of the objectivity of our faith.

There is the ongoing problem of biased representation in the media, with plenty of space given to the atheistic opinions of Hawking and Dawkins, and little if any coverage given to the promotion and integration of science which takes place within the context of the Church.

If, as Hauerwas has eloquently argued, Christians place their hope in the Kingdom of God, and seek to embody that Kingdom by living faithfully as church, then they need to have some understanding of the relationship of God's Kingdom to political power.

But if you don't champion the place of the arts within the Body of Christ, if you don't encourage young Christians to pursue the calling God has put on their hearts, if you don't train up your creative troops to stand and fight, then why on earth would you — would we — expect to see the Church being anything other than routed in the world of entertainment?

Perhaps we also need to recognise that if there had been no church connection these «friendships» would not have existed in the first place.

I am in a place right now where the churches are so screwed up that I can not participate in them (having my reputation smeared by the toxic church does not help), but I maintain hope that Christ will lead me to his true followers if I keep looking, in church or out.

Second, if the church is attentive to the New Testament, Justin Martyr and Hippolytus, the Eastern church, the Western catholic tradition, the Anglican tradition, the Lutheran tradition, the Calvinist intent (and practice, if not in Geneva then in places like John Robinson's Leiden), the Wesleyan intent and that of the early Methodists, then its worship on every festival of the resurrection — that is, on every Sunday — will include both Word and Supper, not one or the other.

The place to start, it seems, might be whatever the church would be paying in taxes if they were not tax - exempt.

If we want church to be a place where people can come in and be «real», we may need to embrace their language rather than spend our time being offended by it and correcting them.

society needs to stop protecting the rights of gays and lesbians and should focus on our mere extinction if we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIif we do nt repent, and hed to the words of CHRIST, we should not be spending even a minute talking about gays, bc the main story is how ignorant and stupid society has become, KNOW THIS, IF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIIF YOU REMOVE THE WORDS CHRIST FROM CHRISTMAS AND DECIDE THAT IS NO LONGER A STORY ABOUT A BABY FROM BETHLEHEN AND NOW ITS ABOUT SANTA CLAUS, AND PEOPLE ARE LEARNING TO ACCEPT OTHER RELIGIONS MOVING TO NY THEN YOU CAN EXPECT EVIL AND DISOBIENCE TO PROVAIL how can any group of people who blantenly marry in a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIin a church before GOD ALMIGHTY and demand that society accept them, have any place NEXT TO A HOLY GOD IN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIIN HEAVEN, WHO IS WITH OUT SIN, ACCEPT THEIR SIN.

So it is important, if the Catholic Church is to get it right this time, that we should understand clearly why so many Anglicans stayed inside the C of E when women were ordained in the frst place.

If any members of the Church including also individual bishops were to demand that the Church should alter her constitution in a way contradicting her dogmatically defined self - understanding, such movement in favour of change would actually no longer take place within the Church but outside, for those demanding such a change could no longer belong to the Church in the full sense of a visible society.

I am not sure if there is more to their vision than just getting back to Jerusalem, but it seems to me as I watch and learn and pray about what is happening worldwide, I am beginning to see signs of renewal and reawakening in all the places that the church has been previously.

Normally in such cases he can only change with the Church's whole consciousness of its belief, if such a change really takes place in respect of a more precise discernment of the fundamental moral guiding principles or of certain applications of these to new situations.

I don't know if you go to church or not, but when you find a place that you like and feel comfortable in like any parish around, you don't want to be told you can't go.

Furthermore, this culture war has presented people like Justin, and people like Cindy — a mom who contacted Justin in a panic after learning her son was gay, knowing that her church was the last place she could turn if she wanted her son to feel loved and supported — with a dangerous false dichotomy: It's gays vs. Christians.

Since Jesus Christ founded the Catholic Church and placed good men in charge of it, and because it was the Catholic Church which put the Books of the Bible in the Bible and coined the word «Bible», and because the Bible tells us that the Church is the pillar and foundation of Truth, and because these good men [that you refer to as misguided] are the ones ordained and «sent», [just like Jesus was «sent» by the Father], are at the «helm» of His Church and have the absolute authority to interpret the Bible, I am so inclined to be ever so thankful that Jesus Christ set it all up this way so that the burdens and crosses that I may bear will become as light as the yoke that Jesus Christ promised if we are willing to follow him, and not our will be done but His.

If church is supposed to make people better and more moral, but doesn't, isn't everyone wasting their time by going to church in the first place?

I wrote about this back in the chapter on cancelling the church service, but what if the teaching time took place in the busses and vans while a church was driving to a place of ministry, and then continued afterwards, when returning?

Though many quarters within the churches are only beginning to catch on, the structures, assumptions of patriarchy and rote responses have long ago fallen away - of necessity - in secular life, and I write this as a post-Christian-christian, a post-Anglican-anglican, which can be a pretty raw and challenging if interesting place to be at times.

It would be worth more to me to get rid of them even if the church had to struggle in other places but we should not struggle in the area of worship.

While I do not demand the above verses to be a requirement for what the Church has come to call «tongues», there is yet a place in Him that we can reach, if only from time to time, where we are refreshed and renewed, a place where lwords aren't necessary and we flow with Him through an inner connection.

This is so we don't get into that whole church running the country problem that people came here for in the first place, to have freedom of and from religion if they choose to.

In a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustaineIn a sense it is these mores, these values and expressions of moral attitudes or what Toqueville called «the habits of the heart» which are at risk if the mass media in general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein general, and television in particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein particular, were to succeed in replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustainein replacing the church as the place where the mores are generated and sustained.

I believe that if we genuinely participated in some of these things during the hours we were usually in church, more relationship building would take place in one month than often happens in an entire year of church services.

i don't remember which church this was [or if it was here in Ohio where i now live, or back in California where i grew up, or one of the other places i lived in between — but i saw it quoted all over the country for MONTHS] THAT, i believe, is when you REALLY hear God.

And if it is conceded that the church and minister have no short - cuts in these matters, then it might be well to place a Bible right beside the spot on the table where the minister bangs the gavel.

If the Holy Spirit is let loose, they might even be open to expanding their idea of why they come to church in the first place.

If Christians had blown the place up in the name of Jesus, outrage over a church being built nearby would be equally outrageous.

The Bureau has made it clear that she would be just as guilty if her for - rent ad had been placed in a church bulletin or a grocery store bulletin board.

There are places where he resorts to the imagery of myth and speaks of Christ as if he were living an unseen life with God in a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquin a heavenly realm above, from which he would descend to appear on the earth at the imminent end - time.38 At other times Paul could speak of the church as the body of Christ, of which the Christian believers formed «the limbs and organs».39 He exhorted the Galatians to «put on Christ as a garment», 40 he said to the Romans, «Let Christ Jesus himself be the armor that you wear», 41 and he told the Galatians how he was in travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquin travail until they «took the shape of Christ».42 In various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquIn various ways Paul spoke of the risen Christ as an indwelling presence in the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquin the believer, the most moving passage being his own testimony, I have been crucified with Christ; the life I now live is not my life, but the life which Christ lives in me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquin me; and my present bodily life is lived by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.&raquin the Son of God who loved me and gave himself up for me.»

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

Once again we need to understand that both conversion and nurture have a place in church education, if such education is to be Christian.

What if church was a place where our most broken places could be seen — and we were loved most in those broken places?