Sentences with phrase «just as a church»

I hope that in time, the church will catch up and be truly inclusive of those who identify as lesbian or gay — and not just as church attenders, but genuinely as part of the life and activities of the church.

First, the church was the dynamic force transforming the classical world from Roman Empire to Christendom, just as the church's dismemberment dynamically transformed Europe in the sixteenth century.

Because a church maybe experiecing that does nt mean they are not a witness, just as a church that is not growing maybe in the same boat of which you speak.

Just as the Church fills up in the bodies of her members the sufferings of Christ, so also the consolations of the Lord overflow to others through her as she fills out the full measure of the healing love of Christ by her sacramental ministry (cf. Col 1,24).

Both Kavanagh and Jesuit theologian John Baldovin have shown how early Christian worship was a highly civic affair, just as the Church itself was from the beginning a public, urban institution.

Otherwise we would have had this big scandal of our treasurer being in prison just as our church was starting.

Just as the Church never failed in its works of charity, so it was never completely blind to the social evils and economic injustice of the day.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so also wives ought to be, in everything, to their husbands.

Pharisaism was a crucial part of an intricate system to control the people, just as the church has become.

Just for the record, the Bible does not appoint us men bosses over our wives, it says we should Love them the way Christ loved the church... sacraficially, and in our home when I do that, my wife has no problem with respecting / obeying me just as the church is supposed to obey Christ.

Just as the church's Spanish iconography was imposed upon an existing indigenous ceremonial space, the artist's work was a palimpsest of layered histories — a vertical excavation of architecture — a near spiritual experience.

Not exact matches

Just as Democrats could not target churches for leaning conservative and demand that they should pay extra taxes, right - wing Republicans can not target universities based on ideological beliefs.

Andy Peck visits a mega church based on principles which apply just as well to a church of 25 as they do to one of 20,000 - because that's where it all began.

Trey — I would have a very hard time attending a church where Cindy and I weren't recognized as a couple, treated as a couple, and not only free, but comfortable and even encouraged, to be ourselves, just like any other couple in the church.

If you don't do exactly as I say (If you are unsure what that is, just ask Michlle here) then I'll keep knocking over churches!

The followers (note I did call them Christians) would just as soon vomit on these news places that broadcast the corrupt «perfect» church.

Now if the church chooses not to allow her take take communion, that is there choice, just as it's a stores choice to sell products to who ever they want.

It's okay... I just had a ceremony here, that was just as effective, to un-baptize Joseph Smith and everyone else identifying as a Mormon... so the church doesn't really exist anymore.

She's not active in the church, as I said, even now, but we're still friends, and she told me recently just how significant it was for her that I did make that choice.

The same way that it was used in Ephesians 5:25 - 26 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing [a] her by the washing with water through the word,

«The Christian Church has started to realize that we're sexual, too, and we are just as visually stimulated as men and we look at porn,» said Crystal Renaud, author of the recent book «Dirty Girls Come Clean,» a memoir about her own addiction to porn.

Ummmm... white churches are just as guilty as politicizing from the pulpit, as are hispanic churches, greek orthodox, etc etc..

What the Evangelical church needs is a fresh outpouring of the Holy Ghost, just like in the book of Acts, where daily, thousands recognized their need for Jesus Christ as the only person who could save them from a Christ-less eternity.

Because the Muslim versions of Christians «Tim» and «Jim» blew up the WTC it doesn't mean we should stop the ordinary Muslims from building their Mosques, just as it would be ridiculous to stop the building of Christian churches near the families of the victims of «Tim» and «Jim».

The Founding Fathers just wanted to avoid the head of the government also being the head of the Church as it still is in England.

If you want churches to use school buildings, then you have to be «for» some weird satanic church just as much as you are «for» a run - of - the - mill church.

I just think as Christians we should have a higher standard than what we are portraying in the media concerning this issue... I can not find the reason why gay people can not be our equals in our churches — if they can be my neighbors then they can also be my friends — and if friends — then they shoud have all the access to whatever it is I do.

wow, just peaked at this blog to find this gem, as a church raised kiddy I only have to be within range of a hymn book or pew to start to feel that creeping guilt, once infected it stays in the system like a STD, it's also deadly.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

Of course the mormon church is as internally inconsistant as any other religious group and has had just about every position on just about every issue over time.

Like all humans, they are as full of hypocrisy as the rest of us, why don't they just go to church if it pleases them, or not, and let the rest of us deal with our own spirituality.

You are just as guilty by as - sociation, and are hiding under the cloak of the church (not the one jJesus founded)!

I'm speaking about my own faith only: To become a Christian, it must be your own choice.No else can decide this life style for you.I know many in the past and present have thought raising a child under the Christian label will save them for hell but in actual reality, the choice is their own not their parents etc.This life (being Christian) goes deeper than just believing.You have to consider this yourself.Many today do not even consider Christ as their savior because they just believe what their church or family says.

As denominationalism has taught us, if you don't love the bible and its teaching, just go out and start your own church and write your own «bible!»

Personally, the fear of God's judgement could cause someone to seek God, but if you say you believe and even fill a church pew the rest of your life, because of fear, but you really don't believe, I think you're just as lost as those who deny his existence.

Does amount of money distributed or applied towards the cause factor in, or does the Westbor Baptist Church count just the same as, say, United Way?

Third, if it were true that there were just a single category rather than one, then even churches» employees would be covered by the mandate, as Gallicho's immediate sequel indicates.

(Just as predictably, the church's doctrine and discipline, with regard to homosexual practice, received even more attention.)

On its last day, a key figure in the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Paul of Chernobyl and Vyshgorod, led a blessing service for Yanukovych and his clique at the Kyev - Pechersk Lavra, notoriously assuring him, «Today you carry a heavy cross, and the Church will be with you to the end, just as Simon of Cyrene helped carry the cross of Christ to Calvary.»

As far as the donating goes, if they want to donate to a church organization then that's fine but to donate to groups that stand against my right to live free and have the same rights as everyone else is this god for sacking country then that's just wronAs far as the donating goes, if they want to donate to a church organization then that's fine but to donate to groups that stand against my right to live free and have the same rights as everyone else is this god for sacking country then that's just wronas the donating goes, if they want to donate to a church organization then that's fine but to donate to groups that stand against my right to live free and have the same rights as everyone else is this god for sacking country then that's just wronas everyone else is this god for sacking country then that's just wrong.

But it is precisely the «federal model» ¯ Anglicanism as a federation of autonomous, doctrinally diverse local churches ¯ that did not fare well at Egypt, just as it found disfavor last summer at Lambeth.

Given that its figures do not include Cardiff where rough sleeping is highest, as well as other parts of Wales, the 18,000 hours is just a snapshot of what Welsh churches are doing for people who don't have anywhere to live.

It's about common decency and respect for all the victims, not just the ones who went to the same church as you.

If these CHRISTians, as they like to be called, just stayed in their churches, helped the poor, stopped spreading hate — the kinds of things their boss said they should do, we wouldn't be bothered as much.

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son, the Christians that pay attention to the mega churches «feel good» messages are just as hedonistic as you.

@Kristen — The Church of Satan is just as full of hypocrites, wannabees, and poseurs who only read the parts of the book they like as any cChurch of Satan is just as full of hypocrites, wannabees, and poseurs who only read the parts of the book they like as any churchchurch.

As i grew older i became more intellectually and scientifically driven and although i do still go to church when i can its more for me a place when i am having a bad day that is a refuge a place that i just feel at peace in probably because i grew up in a church was there every Sunday and every holy day of obligation with my parents it brings back peacful memories.

Just as conservatives denounce the Westboro baptist church and their tactics, I hope that «liberals» everywhere denounce those who use hateful threats of violence, death, and damnation as tactics for furthering the liberal agenda (or ANY agenda at that)

But while our communities and churches certainly benefit from photographers, artists, writers, musicians, artisans, chefs, carpenters, fire - fighters, hard - laborers, entrepreneurs and small - business owners, those who have found themselves in a corporate gig have just as much to contribute to both the Church and the Kingdom as any other talented individual.

using your argument we would had civil rights in this country just because goverments make certain practices illegal does tat mean that what the goverrmet s doing is moral and just, The fact s the goverment attempted to use Christaniaity to bolster it claim to power through this we have the start of the Roman Catholic Church one of the most insidious evil organzations on this planet which as doe more to oppose ad kill true follewers of Christ then ay group o this planet.