Sentences with phrase «modern churches even»

Modern Churches even have classes for wives on how to deal with being the minority decision makers in their own families.

Not exact matches

The PCA and other churches often offer a more «contemporary» worship option, with contemporary praise music, a more modern feel, and maybe even a pastor who preaches in jeans.

The entire religion is based on mistakes from people too illiterate to remember the origin of their religion... and even today we see the church evolving on that same path, rewriting and reinterpreting it's rulebook to try and fit a modern society it can never catch up to.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

In fact, by confusing Tradition with traditionalism and radically opposing the Scriptures to Tradition, much of the Christian wisdom Tradition, beginning with the writings of the early Church Fathers (& Mothers) and continuing even into modern time, the Protestant Reformers have cut much of the Western Church off from the ongoing Revelation of the Christian wisdom Tradition.

We must resolutely resist any such idea, even though we may find it again today in the formulae of modern theologians: «Historical events express a Word of God to the church,» or: «Christ lives in history.»

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

Most modern Church - goers give this weekly witness to their own inner conviction without the slightest sense of superiority, and more frequently than is sometimes supposed, it is given by young Christians despite ridicule, discouragement and even some persecution.

We easily regard as the defeat and regression of the Church in modern times what is actually only the social manifestation of a state which has always existed, even in the so - called good old days, because even then people, on the average, had but little faith, hope and love of God and men.

Many other modern interpreters of marriage have made the same mistake, and so have many people in American churches, who are tempted to join with Coontz and insist that couples get married for reasons of love alone, Economic, kinship and network issues and even the desire to have children are sometimes seen as contaminations of the purity of marital love.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

I also happen to believe that a significant portion of the modern institutional church has completely forsaken following Christ's teaching for a life of in your face activism and confrontation of perceived «sin» rather than sharing the good news in love, or even simply living the good news.

For Rosenzweig, most modern atheists are really Johannine Christians who don't realize it even as they seek to bring all into their church of neighborly love.

Yet modern Protestant churches suffer but little from Aristotelian logic nowadays, and university faculties do not suffer at the hands of the likes of John Scotus Erigena, or even a Peter Abelard.

The Journey of Faith that Leads to The Light It is shocking to the modern mind that the Church claims to know better than the individual, even to know better than the intellectuals of the day.

The only alternative was the radical Humanist alternative which the Church had rejected with emphasis and fear 60 years earlier, and that alternative in even its most modern presentation is still untrue, and even more untrue, and it is the cause of the totally unexpected and devastating fruits of change which we see all around us.

Do you mean to tell me that building a church and teaching sermons about Jesus in impoverished South American countries is somehow less effective than building family housing, teaching modern irrigation techniques, and demonstrating how even the simplest modern medicine and hygeine practices can save many, many lives?

It is an alternative from which bad Christians and agnostics alike have begun to shrink in horror, for even if the Church had no more within her to give the modern age, even so would she be a better light to men than the black slavery of the spirit which has arisen out of the East, and stands upon the shores of the West.

In any event, even in the theology of the church the Greek word hypostasis (translated into the Latin as persona and then into the English as «person») had nothing like our modern sense.

For if anything is clear to the average modern Christian with even a casual knowledge of the New Testament, it is, first, that «radiant» is hardly the word he would think of to describe his own religious life or that of his contemporaries, and secondly, that no other term characterizes so well the life of the primitive church.

The worship of the individual over the collective is a fairly modern movement in Christianity, even though Christian history is firmly orthodox and sees the «death to self» as an embrace of the collective (aka the Church, aka the Body of Christ).

So even before he began using that term, he sent a letter to the head of the Vatican Observatory, noting that «those members of the Church who are either themselves active scientists, or in some special cases both scientists and theologians, could serve as a key resource» in bridging the chasm that too often separates modern science and biblical religion.

It had never occurred to me how significantly the modern church — particularly the modern evangelical church — glorified and catered to extroversion, and how uncomfortable (even marginalized) introverts can feel in their own faith communities.

After 500 years of the modern Bible, we find that it has lost its voice in our world; even, sadly, within many of our churches.

It was just a spur - of - the - moment rant born of frustration to be honest because even though there is amazing theological basis for this kind of a marriage it never seems to make its way out of the silo of academia or even strong local churches so sometimes it feels like the popular and prolific teaching in the modern Church leans more towards a form of soft patriarchy.

Individuals and groups can do this, even in the name of their Christian faith, without identifying their activity with the church as such, and without insisting that the church endorse this activity with some modern variant of the formula «Thus saith the Lord.»

in this respect the modern church is in a wholly different position from that which the New Testament church or even the church of Augustine's time occupied.

That is, the function that the churches may be best able to fulfill, even in modern society, is that of promoting communication with God.

Most modern Christians may be familiar with that particular theological interpretation, Chuck — particularly given how the church has long oriented itself around a traditional vision of Jesus as celibate and unmarried... even if that vision is an unproven one.

And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much more plausible explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we do talk about what we actually believe.

The pastors I have known have told me that we have church buildings because that is the modern day version of the Jewish temple (or synagogue) of the Old Testament and even of Jesus» time.

Even some Christian churches have jumped on the bandwagon of the new century as if it has the magic power to bring about «Christianizing the world in this generation,» to use the celebrated motto of John R. Motto, one of the tireless pioneers of modern ecumenism.

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

So I wonder even if this modern model we have of «church» today that is built on the foundation of a «pastor» is even biblical?

It is the heresy that in even more modern times the churches fell into when they condemned the right of women to vote and interracial marriage.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

That clever grid of framed pressed flowers above the vintage church pew... doesn't this vignette make such a bold, even modern statement?