Sentences with phrase «nearly everyone in the church»

In reality nearly everyone in the church and their residential homes are recovering addicts — their drugs of choice usually heroin, crack and / or alcohol.

Nearly everyone in the church I was pastoring counseled us against such an action.

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If I walk into a church service pretty much anywhere in America and ask people to raise their hand if they have been hurt by a church (specifically the leadership of a church), nearly everyone will raise their hand.

I'm surprised in one sense because the United States of America has been a Christian nation for over 200 years and nearly everyone of the people posting a response to this forgot about the Bride of Christ, His Church.

Since churches with large attendance usually can not accommodate everyone Sunday morning, nearly half in the survey have a Saturday service and 20 percent conduct a service on Friday.

And the simple fact is that in an era when nearly everyone assumed that communism had come to stay, it was not simply a few isolated Polish Catholic priests like Wielgus whobelieved that there had to be some degree of cooperation with the institutional manifestations of communism; it was the Church at the very highest level of all, in Rome itself: for the assumption that communism was a permanent reality and therefore had to be dealt with was the very foundation of Paul VI's Ostpolitik, the most famous and the most ignoble manifestation of which was Pope Paul's betrayal (there is no other word) of the Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty, who was stripped of all his offices and replaced by a Hungarian Primate whose remit (faithfully accomplished) was to establish cordial relations with the communist regime of the deeply unsavoury Janos Kadar.