Sentences with phrase «learn better church»

Learn better Church history.

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Similarly, those in the Church often have the idea that true sanctity means waving bye - bye to the enjoyment of life's good things, and learning to love things which are painful, boring, or painfully boring.

My understanding, as well as from what I've read about my church, is that God is the guiding force behind such phenomenons we learn about when we practice and study science to understand the natural world.

There is no better place to learn how to do this than at church.

students in social and church placements in their first semester onward; it involved the entire faculty as well as field supervisors in a process of collaborative learning; and it was based on the clinical pastoral education model.

We joined this church about 4 years ago because we felt we needed a good base and spiritual learning for our son.

Not long after the Civil War, John Wesley Work, an African American church choir director and scholar in Nashville, Tennessee, realized that the rising generation of black southerners might best understand the importance of spirituality by learning the songs their ancestors sang during the days of....

And Jesus answers, a. blessed are you, you read that in a good book b. blessed are you, you really listened in church c. blessed are you, you learned this from God not human teaching.

I once spoke with a young woman who was raised in a very liberal mainline tradition who told me she left the church because, «I wasn't learning anything there about tolerance, love, and good stewardship of the planet that I wasn't learning at my public high school, so what was the point?»

In Jesus Feminist, Bessey shares her spiritual journey, which ranged from growing up in a post-gender-debate home to learning about the worldwide struggles of women and the obstacles even a well - meaning church can pose.

The religious persecution of the gays is pure bigotry.It's well oast time some churches learned that their particular beliefs do not apply to people not of their particular group.

Finally, all agreed that the best forms of ecumenism, for the foreseeable future at least, should be local and ad hoc, involving such small but powerful gestures as learning to pray with and for local Catholic and Orthodox churches.

So I thought we might benefit from «Ask a pastor's wife...» and «Ask a pastor's husband...» to learn how we church folk can love our pastors and their families better.

Williams wants a mode of discourse that is better suited to healing a contingent world in which «contestation is inevitable,» in which the church is not in fact so «dramatically apart» from other ways of realizing the good, and in which there is a need for patience in tracing how the Christian contribution to history is «learned, negotiated, betrayed, inched forward, discerned and risked.»

I have learned, for example, that good sabbaths not only make good Christians; they make good pastors and good churches too.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

Their cause probably would have been served better with something like «learn more about atheism» or «keep church and state separate».

It is imperative that churches identify gifted persons, educate and form them well, and sustain their learning over the course of their ministry.

When I learned of this (2 years later... it was very well hidden), I began questioning prominent members of the church, but when the church minister could not give appropriate responses to my questions, I knew it was time to leave permanently.

If you attend every mission's conference your church hosts, but have never learned about the marital problems of your coworker, what good is it?

At a time when their colleagues who spoke for the church were conspicuously incapable of giving the faith a good account in the eyes of the learned, the Vanderbilt academics preferred to dissociate themselves from their religious leaders rather than take up their cause as allies and persuade them that sound scholarship was God's good servant too.

«Clergy psychologists and others who have to deal with clergy health problems and burnout» now strongly caution pastors that to enhance their overall physical, mental and spiritual well - being and maintain effectiveness as pastoral leaders, they must learn to maintain boundaries, particularly between church work and private time.»

In this process, the members of our churches must learn to articulate their own beliefs, not so that they can proselytize more effectively, but so that their living faith becomes a useful tool in building the common good.

Through common study of the Bible we have gained a better understanding of God's word in the tradition of the great preachers and theologians of earlier centuries, and thus we have learned to read the Bible more faithfully in and with the Church.

The primacy of theology was displayed also by the fact that the actual curriculum emphasized learning Latin, the language of the church, and among the liberal arts, logic, the tool of accurate reasoning required for good theology.

Jeremy i agree with what you have written many of the traditions in the church have come from pagan beliefs.I thought some of the comments were judgemental of others especially towards those who are pagan.There response was respectful we can learn alot about having a good attitude towards others and responding to others kindly.I think using scripture in a legalistic way is no different than what the pharisees did to Jesus in his day and he disarmed them by rebuking them saying you without sin cast the first stone.regards brentnz

-- How does one know which passage is addressed to Israel or the early church, as well as for our own learning, and which is about the «end»?

while breifly going thru this artical it was makeing my stomach turn, this is just what the devil wants is for doubt and confusion, christianity is growing stronger than ever, souls are being saved and lives are changing every day, and do nt for one minute think any different, or try tp put christians down, why would we loose faith, god answers our prayers everyday, think what you want and do what you do, but do nt try to put things in other people's opinion or minds, jesus died for our sins, so that we can have better lives and be forgiven for our sins here on earth and move on to a beter place, becouse souls do nt die «read the bible, if you do nt understand it, find a church that can help you learn a better way of life, I pray for everyone out there that does nt know jesus christ as ther savior to accept what he has to offer to you «love forgiveness and ever lasting life «Christians» stay strong and [ass the word of god on and share all your tedtimonies in life» god bless everyone»»

Stories of long - term spiritual growth and fulfillment in church are, in many ways, similar to stories of long - term growth and fulfillment in marriage: what matters more than initial compatibility is long - term commitment to growing together, working through conflict, and learning as broken people to love other broken people well.

At this point in my journey, it would appear that the only thing I got going for me are the well meaning supportive friendships I'm learning to make and a belief in myself and some natural talents I was born with but never developed when I was a church member.

They are good people and they love Jesus, and I have learned some good things from them, but my approach to church heads a different way.

• «In her preaching [the Church] might spread and explain the message of Christ to all nations» (58), «as well as to the needs of the learned» (44).

To learn to put up with this empirical church is the way both of Christian humility at its best and of Christian growth in God's grace, not to mention the patent fact that such cooperation may do much to make the empirical institution more conformable to its intention and significance as the Body of Christ.

There is a preacher in the Christian church, dead now for a hundred years, who better than any other can be our tutor as we seek to learn how to preach to our time.

The «family pew ethos» institutionalized in late - Victorian Protestant spirituality depended on an unquestioned belief that Christian faith is most powerfully nurtured in the Christian home, while knowledge about the Bible is best learned at church.

What Elizabeth I recognised, and what Elizabeth II has learned, is that the Church has a role in social and political cohesion in the nation that reaches well beyond its religious adherents.

But things got better and I learnt more outside of the church — I discovered our humanity — our greatest gift, which sadly the church so often ignores.

«This can only bode well for our work in developing a Covenant for Clergy Well - being that draws on all that the church is learning about how attending to the well - being of the clergy is vital to the mission and ministry of the whole church.&rawell for our work in developing a Covenant for Clergy Well - being that draws on all that the church is learning about how attending to the well - being of the clergy is vital to the mission and ministry of the whole church.&raWell - being that draws on all that the church is learning about how attending to the well - being of the clergy is vital to the mission and ministry of the whole church.&rawell - being of the clergy is vital to the mission and ministry of the whole church.»

He dedicated his life to reforming the church by restoring access to the genuine meaning of scripture so that the common people and the unlearned might be guided by the learned to seek Jesus Christ in scripture and be led by Christ to the freely flowing fountain of every good thing found in God the Father.

Every church engaged in the ministry of Jesus knows painfully well that there is another team on the field and it is often surprising and disappointing to learn who their members are.

The basic findings are that the average person who doesn't go to church wants to learn more about Jesus and is even open to talking about Him with Christian friends, but doesn't think the church is doing a very good job representing Jesus (either in our words or actions).

There are good churches out there with vision and good leadership and there are churches all over the place... It was I that had to decide, was I willing to sacrifice again by working extra hours and doing hard things — I made the choice to do it better than I did before... I went back to a work ethic I learned not from Christians — but blue collar guys in field.

Additionally, I do agree that if believer's at a given church are not effectively being taught the Word of God, and they believe they need a more effective teacher to better learn the Bible, it is their right to seek one.

This dilemma is well illustrated in Protestant institutions of higher learning which, as we have seen, typically aspired to be public institutions as well as church institutions, pursuing the laudable goal of serving the public as well as their own people.

Andrew Pollock, the church's tower captain said he's thrilled to «offer better facilities for people across the Furness area to learn and preserve this amazing skill for generations to come».

As I enter into a new place in life, I know that what I have learned in the last few years about God and life will not sit well with a lot of the church world.

Churches (as well as businesses) need to learn how to be nimble and respond quickly as needed.

If you are seeking to follow Jesus with your life, you are still raising your children within the church, and may be doing a better job of it than if you sat in a pew on Sunday morning and hoped that your children were learning something downstairs.

It means better church schools and Christian schools of higher learning so that the heritage of our faith may be passed on more fully and vitally to oncoming generations and so that adults may understand more accurately the foundations of their faith.

Kenneth agree with you totally its not just adams and abrahams problem its us guys we give in to our wives to keep the peace we should learn that the best way is always Gods way not our way or mans way.That to me is the message behind the story.The issue is rather than taking on the burden of his wife Abraham should have taken it back to the Lord its in our weakness he strengthens us.In the end he did what any married man would have done in order to please his wife.We are no different we put our wives or children church work before the Lord just as he did and loo at the consequences that came from that decision the arab nations became a thporn in there side.In my mind we need to put him first always.When we please the Lord he will bless us and our relationships when we do it our way there will be consequences.brentnz